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Study of social life, social change, and social causes and consequences of human behavior. - answer
✔✔-Sociology
Social Imagination
enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography.
History- each society is located in a broad stream of events
Biography- experiences within the historical settings, which gives us our orientations in life. - answer
✔✔-C. Wright Mills
Suicide/ Types of Solidarity
-first goal- get sociology recognized as a separate academic discipline.
-second goal- to show how social forces affect people's behavior
-Comparison of suicide rates of several countries revealed an underlying social factor
--(Vegas) people are more likely to commit suicide if their ties to others in their community are weak.
-identified social integration - answer ✔✔-Emile Durkheim
the degree to which people are tied to their other social groups. - answer ✔✔-Social integration
the patterns and behaviors that characterize a certain group
ex: in US, June=weddings - answer ✔✔-Social facts
, Natural sciences are the intellectual and academic disciplines that are designed to explain and predict
the events in out natural environment - answer ✔✔-Origins of sociology as a discipline
intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of
controlled and repeated observation
-Industrial rev
-Political rev
-Imperialism - answer ✔✔-Social sciences
Social Darwinism
-second founder of soc
-disagreed w comte saying sociologists shouldn't guide social reform
-sociologists should keep hands off- natural evolution take place
-helping poor= wrong, they are less fit, shouldn't survive. - answer ✔✔-Herbert Spencer
Positivism
What holds a society together?
*coined term SOCIOLOGY - answer ✔✔-Auguste Comte
applying the scientific method to the social world (Comte) - answer ✔✔-Positivism
Conflict Theory, Types of Alienation
-believed roots of human misery lay in class conflict, the exploitation of workers by those who own the
means of production
-social change: working class overthrowing capitalists is inevitable
-didn't think of himself as sociologist, but his idea had many influences. - answer ✔✔-Karl Marx
Protestant Ethic & Capitalism
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