Theorist
Theory
Culture
The Beginning of Sociology
Fundamental concepts
100

He coined the term 'Sociology'

Auguste Comte

100

Comte is a founding father of this theory

Functionalism

100

The lifestyles of the more socially dominant group in society.

Dominant culture

100

The father of Sociology

Auguste Comte

100

The nation state where people exist within a geographical boundary

Society

200

He believes that norms, values, and beliefs guide human behavior.

Emile Durkheim

200

The working class is in a state of false class consciousness

Marxism

200

People use their culture as 'yardstick' against which they measure other people's culture

Ethnocentrism

200

These gave rise to the start of Sociology

Industrial and French revolution

200

social stability from consensus and conformity

Social order

300

Spoke about the existence of two distinct groups in an exploitive relationship

Karl Marx

300

Individuals create their social world through interacting with others.

Interactionism

300

Understanding a culture based on it's own terms

Cultural relativism

300

The process of moving away from rural areas to dwell in towns or cities

Urbanization

300

A shift in society from one stage to another

Social Change

400

The founder of Symbolic Interactionism

George H. Mead

400

Women's and men's problems in society are the result of social and not natural or biological factors.

Feminism

400

the feeling of disruption when you are confronted with a different culture

Culture shock

400

Linked to Sociology and focused on attitudes and behaviour in society

Psychology

400

Expectations of behaviour that accompany one's status

Roles

500

He developed the Dramaturgy approach

Erving Goffman

500

The Caribbean society has a structure that was stratified by race

Plantation society

500

the process of interaction and integration among people, companies and nations aided by technology

Globalization

500

The use of research methods that produce an objective, scientific data

Positivism

500

Ideas that are considered as good, correct, proper, worthwhile and desirable

Values

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