SOCIOLOGISTS AND THEIR THEORIES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024

SOCIOLOGISTS AND THEIR THEORIES QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024 Auguste Comte - ANSWER Father of sociology, founder of positivism C. Wright Mills - ANSWER Class conflict, came up with "social imagination." Charles Horton Cooley - ANSWER used the term "looking -glass self" to explain that we see ourselves as we imagine others see us Emile Durkheim - ANSWER Believed in functionalism and the scientific method; saw society as a set of independent parts that maintain a system but each separate part has a function Erving Goffman - ANSWER focused on dramaturgy George Herbert Mead - ANSWER Primary concept of the self, the part of one's personality composed of self-awareness and self -image. Links self concept to role -taking. Three stages of self development: Preparatory stage, play stage, game stage. Karl Marx - ANSWER Communist Manifesto, Marx is a socialist, says after modern industry, society split between middle class (bourgeoisie) and modern working class(proletariat), that next working class would take over, should make a socialist society of rev olutionary workers. Followed theory of Hegel Robert Merton - ANSWER made an important distinction between manifest and latent functions/combined theory and research/deviant behavior Charles Horton Cooley - ANSWER (symbolic perspective) "Looking glass self" - our self -image develops from how we think others perceive us. He also develops the distinction between "primary and secondary groups" Harold Garfinkel - ANSWER Ethnomethodology - peoples methods of making sense about the world