SOC 100 Purdue Reynolds: Exam 1 46 Review | Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified

social institution - ️️complex groups of independent positions that perform a social role and reproduce themselves ∙ family, education, economy, government, religion created and shaped by humans Wright Mills - ️️sociological imagination - need to consider social context and how that shapes our lives - must link our biography to history Karl Marx - ️️capitalists: own means of production proletariat: don't own the means of production - predicted that the proletariat would eventually unite and stage a revolution - eliminate private property ∙ Capital, Communist Manifesto Max Weber - ️️- believe Marx focused too much on the material world - argued that culture, ideas, religion, politics were just as important in shaping history - capitalism was possible because Calvinism said riches were a sign of God's blessing ∙Protestantism & The Spirit of Capitalism