Founders of Sociology and Their Ideas
This sociologist developed the concept of the 'Sociological Imagination,' stating that "Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
Who is C. Wright Mills?
In 1956, the Anthropologist Horace Miner wrote about the Nacirema people and published his findings in the journal American Anthropologist in efforts to _____ American culture.
What is 'Denaturalize'?
This theorist said, "I'm not what I think I am. I'm not what you think I am. I'm what I think you think I am."
Who is Charles H. Cooley?
This feature of American culture is based in on the idea an individual can work hard enough to achieve upward mobility.
What is the American Dream?
For this sociologist, the economy is the institution that shapes all others.
Who is Karl Marx?
This sociologist finds that suicide is a social fact--one that depends on one's level of social integration.
Who is Émile Durkheim?
This theory of culture could explain large scale patterns of low vaccination rates in the U.S. compared to other industrialized nations.
What is 'Culture as a Switchman'?
What is the 'Generalized Other'?
This is defined as a system that rewards talent and hard work.
What is 'Meritocracy'?
Marx theorized that this group owned the means of production in the capitalist system.
What is the 'Bourgeoisie'?
C. Wright Mills used his concept of the 'Sociological Imagination' to distinguish these two things.
What is 'Personal Troubles' and 'Public Issues'?
This theory of culture suggests that we draw on different cultural resources in different contexts to decide how to act, solve problems, and make sense of our world.
What is 'Culture as a Toolkit'?
W. E. B. Du Bois used this concept to explain how the self develops through the psychological challenge of "always looking at oneself through the eyes of white society, and measuring oneself by the means of a nation that looked back in contempt."
What is the 'Double Consciousness'?
If our first impulse is to see and talk about the self and society in individualistic terms.
What is our 'first cultural language'?
Marx found that the economic system of capitalism lead to alientation, and he predicted that eventually, workers would resist and gain this--an awareness of its common relation to the means of production.
Émile Durkheim used this term to describe the kind of suicide that results from low social integration, excessive individualism, and isolation; performed by people who are not strongly bound to social groups.
What is 'Egoistic Suicide'?
In Durkheim's theory of culture as symbols and rituals, he says that what religion does is distinguish these two things.
What is 'the sacred' and 'the profane'?
This sociologist theorized the 'self' as fluid and situational, and as something we alter to make a good impression on our audience.
Who is Erving Goffman?
This is an institution's dominant way of understanding, talking about, and addressing a social problem.
What is an 'Institutional Script'?
Men and women that are channelled into different spaces, activities, actions in that institution is an example of?
What is how institutions are gendered?
This sociologist used the term 'Social Things' to describe the things external to individuals that shape us.
Who is Charles Lemert?
This is the idea that human beings actively create or build cultural meanings, systems, and categories.
What is 'social construction'?
These are the two kinds of selves that one can perform in Goffman's theory of the presentation of self in everyday life.
What is the 'front stage self' and the 'back stage self'?
Susan Sered finds that this is the institutional script that most institutions Gloria and women like her interact with use.
What is 'Personal Responsibility'?
What is 'Racism'?