CLEP- Intro to Sociology (2022/2023) Already Graded A

CLEP- Intro to Sociology (2022/2023) Already Graded A C. Wright Mills must be able to view sociology humanistically. (understanding motives & human nature) "the sociological imagination". Sociological Imagination expresses the humanistic aspect (motives & human nature) Auguste Comte (1838) 3 stages of scientific development and coined the term sociology. Theological stage of scientific development religious view Metaphysical stage of scientific development abstract, human nature Positive stage of scientific development pinnacle of social development, society governed by reliable knowledge and understood by facts. (When people can predict and change their own destinies.) Harriet Martineau () observed English social patterns. Karl Marx () "the theoretical giant of communist thought: whose prophecies are still hotly debated. Herbert Spencer () society follows a natural evolutionary progression toward something better. Emile Durkheim () statistical study of suicide Max Weber () sought to explain the origins of capitalism. And developed the method of verstehen. Lester Ward & William Graham Sumner caused American sociology to experience a loss of interest in the larger problems of social order and change, focusing on specific problems. George Herbert Mead originated the field of social psychology. Robert Park & Ernest Burgess were concentrating on the city and on such social problems as crime, drug addiction, prostitution, and juvenile delinquency. Talcott Parsons () advocated grand theory. Grand theory based on aspects of the real world forming a conception of society as a stable system of interrelated parts. Robert Merton () proposed building middle range theories from a limited number of assumptions from which hypotheses are derived. -also distinguished