SYG 2000 Chapter 1-3 Test |
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Sociology - -Systematic study of society
- Sociological Perspective - -A way of looking at the world through a
sociological lens. Helps us to see the strange in the familiar. Seeing personal
choice in social context.
- Auguste Comte - -Thought the major goal of sociology was to understand
how society operates. Proposed the idea of positivism- a way of
understanding based on science.
- Emile Durkheim - -Interested in the social factors that bond and hold
people together. Studied the correlation between social isolation and suicide.
Identified social integration- the degree to which people are tied to their
social group, as a key social factor in suicide.
- Structural Functionalism - -Society is viewed of an ordered system of
interrelated parts, or structures, which are the social institutions that make
up society
- Conflict theory: Karl Marx - -Sees social conflict as the basis of society and
social change. People are competing for scarce resources. Types of
inequalities: class, race, gender, age, sexual orientation.
- Bourgeoisie - -Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of
production
- Proletariat - -Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who
do not own the means of production
- Class conflict - -Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and
workers
- Symbolic interactionists - -A framework in which society is viewed as
composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their
views of the world, and communicate with one another
- Max Weber - -Believed the central force in social change was religion.
- Culture - -Beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that, together,
form a people's way of life.
Questions with Verified Answers
Sociology - -Systematic study of society
- Sociological Perspective - -A way of looking at the world through a
sociological lens. Helps us to see the strange in the familiar. Seeing personal
choice in social context.
- Auguste Comte - -Thought the major goal of sociology was to understand
how society operates. Proposed the idea of positivism- a way of
understanding based on science.
- Emile Durkheim - -Interested in the social factors that bond and hold
people together. Studied the correlation between social isolation and suicide.
Identified social integration- the degree to which people are tied to their
social group, as a key social factor in suicide.
- Structural Functionalism - -Society is viewed of an ordered system of
interrelated parts, or structures, which are the social institutions that make
up society
- Conflict theory: Karl Marx - -Sees social conflict as the basis of society and
social change. People are competing for scarce resources. Types of
inequalities: class, race, gender, age, sexual orientation.
- Bourgeoisie - -Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of
production
- Proletariat - -Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who
do not own the means of production
- Class conflict - -Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and
workers
- Symbolic interactionists - -A framework in which society is viewed as
composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their
views of the world, and communicate with one another
- Max Weber - -Believed the central force in social change was religion.
- Culture - -Beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that, together,
form a people's way of life.
