SYG 2000 exam 1 |64 Questions and
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Sociological Imagination - -The ability to see the connections between our
personal experience and the larger forces of history, and understand the
personal troubles and social problems
- Who came up with the Sociological Imagination - -C. Wright Mills
- Social Institutions - -A group of interdependent positions that, together,
perform a social role
- Examples of social institutions - -Family, legal system, Education system
- History of Soc: Theological stage - -The 1st of Comte's stages; Society
seemed to be the result of the divine will
- History of Soc: Metaphysical stage - -Thinkers saw human kind's behavior
as governed by natural, biological instincts
- History of Soc: Scientific stage - -We would develop a social physics of
sorts in order to identify the scientific laws that govern human behavior
- Auguste Comte - -Best way to understand society is to determine the
logic/scientific laws governing human behavior
- Harriet Martineau - -Translated Comte's work; early feminist
- Karl Marx - -Theory of historical realism; Class conflict is primary cause of
social change
- Max Weber - -Emphasis on subjectivity became a foundation of
interpretive sociology
- Emile Durkheim - -Founder of positivist sociology; theory that division of
labor helps determine social cohesion; contributed to concept of anomie
- Georg Simmel - -Formal sociology of pure numbers
- Where did American sociology begin - -Chicago School
- Chicago School - -people's behaviors and personalities are shaped by their
social/physical surroundings
Answers
Sociological Imagination - -The ability to see the connections between our
personal experience and the larger forces of history, and understand the
personal troubles and social problems
- Who came up with the Sociological Imagination - -C. Wright Mills
- Social Institutions - -A group of interdependent positions that, together,
perform a social role
- Examples of social institutions - -Family, legal system, Education system
- History of Soc: Theological stage - -The 1st of Comte's stages; Society
seemed to be the result of the divine will
- History of Soc: Metaphysical stage - -Thinkers saw human kind's behavior
as governed by natural, biological instincts
- History of Soc: Scientific stage - -We would develop a social physics of
sorts in order to identify the scientific laws that govern human behavior
- Auguste Comte - -Best way to understand society is to determine the
logic/scientific laws governing human behavior
- Harriet Martineau - -Translated Comte's work; early feminist
- Karl Marx - -Theory of historical realism; Class conflict is primary cause of
social change
- Max Weber - -Emphasis on subjectivity became a foundation of
interpretive sociology
- Emile Durkheim - -Founder of positivist sociology; theory that division of
labor helps determine social cohesion; contributed to concept of anomie
- Georg Simmel - -Formal sociology of pure numbers
- Where did American sociology begin - -Chicago School
- Chicago School - -people's behaviors and personalities are shaped by their
social/physical surroundings
