11195294760 | Emile Durkheim | Who studied Suicide? | 0 | |
11195294761 | Social Solidarity | Refers to the degree to which group members share beliefs and values and 2 the intensity and frequency of their interaction | 1 | |
11195294762 | Altruistic suicide | High social solidarity sucide | 2 | |
11195294763 | Altruistic Suicide | Durkheim said high social solidarity setings | 3 | |
11195294764 | Egoistic suicide, anomic suicide | Durkheim's term on low social solidarity | 4 | |
11195294765 | reasons for increased suicide rates | Church attendance is down, unemployment, increased rate of divorce | 5 | |
11195294766 | Social structures | relatively stable patterns of social relations | 6 | |
11195294767 | Microstructures, macrostructures, global structures | Three levels of social structure | 7 | |
11195294768 | Microstructures | Patterns of relatively intimate social relations formed during face to face interaction. family, friends, work people | 8 | |
11195294769 | Macrostructures | patterns of social relations that lie outside and above your circle of intimates and acquaintances: classes, power systems | 9 | |
11195294770 | Patriarchy | system of economic and political inequality between men and women | 10 | |
11195294771 | Global Structures | Patterns of social relations that lie outside and above the national level: international organizations, worldwide travel, communication and relations between countries | 11 | |
11195294772 | Sociological Imagination | C. Wright Mills (1959) named... | 12 | |
11195294773 | Sociological Imagination | Ability to see connection between personal troubles and social structures | 13 | |
11195294774 | Scientific revolution, democratic revolution, industrial revolution | Origins of the social imagination | 14 | |
11195294775 | Scientific Revolution | Began in 1550- view that sound conclusion about working of society must be based on solid evidence, not just speculations | 15 | |
11195294776 | Democratic Revolution | began in 1750 - suggested people are responsible for organizing society and human intervention can solve social problems | 16 | |
11195294777 | Industrial Revolution | Most important event in world history since the development of agriculture and cities, large scale application of science and tech to industrial processes, creation of factories, and formation of working class | 17 | |
11195294778 | Auguste Comte | Who coined the term "sociology" | 18 | |
11195294779 | Auguste Comte | tried to place the study of society on scientific foundations | 19 | |
11195294780 | Herbert Spencer | Second founder of sociology | 20 | |
11195294781 | Herbert Spencer | Who was influenced by Darwin, societies operate according to scientific laws, and thought societies evolved the same way biological species do. | 21 | |
11195294782 | Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber | Three sociology giants | 22 | |
11195294783 | Theories, research, values | What 3 tools did the three giants come up with | 23 | |
11195294784 | functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism | Major theoretical traditions in sociology: | 24 | |
11195294785 | Functionalism | Stresses that human behaviour is governed by relatively stable social structures. Focus' on MACRO structures It underlines how social structures maintain or undermind social stability. social structures are based mainly on shared values or preferences. Re-establishing equilibrium can best solve most social problems | 25 | |
11195294786 | Conflict theory | Where did Karl Marx stand in according to theories | 26 | |
11195294787 | Functionalism | Where did Emile Durkheim stand according to theories | 27 | |
11195294788 | Talcott Parsons | North Americas leading functionalism teacher | 28 | |
11195294789 | Conflict theory | Generally focuses on large Macrolevel structures and shows how major patterns of inequality in society produce social stability in some circumstances and social change in other | 29 | |
11195294790 | Class conflict | the struggle between classes to resist and overcome the opposition of other classes | 30 | |
11195294791 | Max Weber | Who found flaws in the conflict theory? | 31 | |
11195294792 | Symbolic interactionism | focuses on interaction in MICROlevel social settings and emphasizes that adequate explanation of social behaviour requires understanding the subjective meanings people attach to their social cirumstance | 32 | |
11195294793 | George Herbert Mead | The founder of Symbolic Interactionism | 33 | |
11195294794 | Social Constructionism | Argues that apparently natural or innate features of life are often sustained by social processes that vary historically and culturally | 34 | |
11195294795 | Queer theory | Argues that peoples sexual identities and performances are so different that labels like male, female, gay and lesbian fail to capture the sexual instability that characterize the lives of many people | 35 | |
11195294796 | Feminist theory | Claims that patriarchy is at least as important as class inequality in determining a person's opportunities in life. male domination is not by biological necessity but by structures of power and social convention. patriarchy in both MIRCO and MARCO levels. Gender inequality should be changed to benefit all | 36 | |
11195294797 | Harriet Martineau | Who was the first female sociologist | 37 | |
11195294798 | Harriet Martineau | Who translated Comte into english? | 38 | |
11195294799 | Globalization | The process by which formerly separate economies, states and cultures become tied together and people become increasingly aware of their growing interdependence | 39 | |
11195294800 | Postindustrial Revolution | refers to technology driven shift from manufacturing to service industries and the consequences of that shift for all human activities | 40 | |
11195294801 | Dysfunctional Consequences | Effects of social structures that create social instability | 41 | |
11195294802 | Manifest Functions | are visible and intended effects of social structures | 42 | |
11195294803 | Latent functions | are invisible and unintended effects of social structures | 43 | |
11195294804 | Protestant ethic | is the belief that religious doubts can be reduced, and a state of grace ensured, if people work diligently and live ascetically. According to Weber, this belief had unintended effect of increasing savings and investment and thus stimulating capitalist growth | 44 | |
11195294805 | Theories | Tentative explanations of some aspect of social life that state how and why certain facts are related | 45 | |
11195294806 | Research | Is the process of systematically observing reality to assess the validity of a theory | 46 | |
11195294807 | Values | are ideas about what is good and bad, right and wrong | 47 | |
11195294808 | Macrostructure theories | Functionalism, Conflict theory, Feminist theory | 48 | |
11195294809 | Microstructure theories | Symbolic Interactionism, Feminist theory | 49 | |
11195294810 | Timeline | Harriet Martineau(1823-68), Auguste Comte(1838), Karl Marx(1848), Emile Durkheim(1897), Max Weber(1922), George Herbert Mead(1934), Talcott Parsons(1951), C. Wright Mills(1956), Erving Goffman(1959) | 50 | |
11195294811 | Sociological Perspective | Analyzes the connection between personal troubles and three levels of social strucutres | 51 | |
11195294812 | postindustrial revolution, globalization, equality, freedom | What are the main influences on sociology today? | 52 | |
11195294813 | Looking glass theory | Charles Cooley's theory | 53 | |
11195294814 | Looking glass theory | Individual gains identity through how they are seen through society | 54 |
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