What Is Sociology?
The scientific study of society and human behavior.
What is Sociology?
What are the approaches to building sociological perspective?
Beginners Mind, Culture Shock, Social Imagination
School provides knowledge, skills, and education.
What kind of function is this?
Manifest Function
What is the scientific study of social patterns that Auguste Comte named?
Positivism
A group of people who share a culture and a territory.
What is society?
Helps to understand how history and social structure affect people.
Macro
•Focuses on the way each part of society functions together to contribute to the functioning of the whole. (macro or micro function)
What is Structural Functionalism
Believes that people rise to their proper social levels in society based on merit.
Emile Durkheim
Rules of behavior that are considered acceptable in a group or society.
What is a Norm?
•If you love books, it was because you were surrounded by books as a child.
Symbolic Interactionist Theory OR Ascribed Theory
School provides friendships.
What kind of function is this?
Latent Function
Believes that culture influences human behavior.
Max Weber
Example of a Norm
Tips at a restaurant.
They look at society as competition for limited resources.
Conflict Theory
Bullying occurs at school.
What kind of function is this?
Dysfunction
Played a prominent role in an effort to increase rights for Black people.
W.E.B. Dubois
A way of looking at the world through a sociological lens.
Sociological Perspective
•Understanding the biography of the situation
•Seeing social issues from personal viewpoints
•Interpreting actions at face value
Micro
Two sociologists who contributed to theories of structural functionalism.
Emile' Durkheim and Herbert Spencer
Founded Hull House
Jane Addams