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Any collection of at least two people who interact with some frequency and who share some sense of aligned identity
Group
A group’s shared practices, values, and beliefs
Culture
Group of people who live in a defined geographic area who interact and share a common culture
Society
An awareness of the relationship between one’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped a person’s choices and perceptions
Sociological Imagination
scientific study of social behavior and human groups
Sociology
This man coined the term sociology
Auguste Comte
This sociologist studied how societies transformed form primitive to capitalist.
Emile Durkheim
All sociologists are interested in the ____________________ of individuals and how they are shaped by interactions with social groups and society as a whole
Experiences
What group did W.E.B Du Bois help found?
NAACP
Sociologists also study the _____________________ of new patterns such as the ways children are affected by them or changing needs for education, housing, and healthcare
Consequences
She was one of the first female sociologists who observed and studied economics, social class, religion, suicide, government, and women’s rights
Harriet Martineau
This emphasized our personal view is influenced by interactions with others.
Symbolic Interactionism
He was one of the more famous early sociologists who rejected positivism and believed society grew based on struggles.
Karl Marx
•Sociology can teach people ways to recognize how they _________________ and how others perceive them and increase awareness of differences
Fit into the world
Comte believed that society developed in 3 stages. What are they?
Theological
Metaphysical
Scientific or Positivist
This sociologist proposed antipositivism.
Max Weber
This idea by Cooley is that we perceive ourselves how we think others see us.
Looking-glass self
This sociologist established the first European Department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux.
Emile Durkheim
What did Karl Marx write that is considered one of the most influential political manuscripts in history?
Communist Manifesto
She helped found the NAACP and worked for full inclusion for women during the Suffrage Movement.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Why Study Sociology? Name 3 areas that Sociology has helped improve or change.
desegregation, gender equality in the workplace, improved treatment of individuals with disabilities, and the rights of native populations
Harriet Martineau pointed out the faults with the free enterprise system and the workplace. What did she find out?
Workers were exploited and worked for no money while business owners became wealthy.
Name 5 Social Facts
laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, cultural rules
This is the landmark court case decision in sociology
Brown vs. Board of Education
Name 3 American Sociologists
W.E.B Du Bois
Thorstein Veblen
Jane Addams
Charles Horton Cooley
George Herbert Mead