WGU C273 EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | ALREADY GRADED A+ | VERIFIED & UPDATED | 2024

WGU C273 Graded A+ C. Wright Mills coined the term sociological imagination sociological imagination the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society Sociology systematic study of social life and human society. The sociological perspective looks for the "general in the particular Émile Durkheim one of the first sociologists to specify what exactly is "social" about our individual actions and decisions Social Facts (Durkheim) "types of behavior and thinking external to the individual" which have "a compelling and coercive power" Auguste Comte Father of sociology, positivism Harriet Martineau sociologist who study and promoted feminist issues Karl Marx Conflict is the driving force behind social change materialist conception of history criticized capitalism father of communism Herbert Spencer did not necessarily want to improve society; he only wanted to understand it social Darwinism - natural selection Mechanical Solidarity (Durkheim) connections based on the similarity of beliefs and values