behaviorism
Behaviorism is rooted in this social science.
Psychology
What is the free rider dilemma?
These are the two main types of exchange theories; one based in economics and psycology, and one based in economics and psychology.
This individualist wrote "Wealth of Nations" and is known as the father of the free market economy.
Who is Adam Smith?
Pavlov experimented with dogs to discover this psychological phenomenon of a neutral stimuli becoming linked to an automatic response.
What is classical conditioning?
This is the main question rational choice theory answers.
How can selfish people create and remain committed to social norms and structures?
Exchange theory has a long history in anthropology but was adopted by sociologists in the mid 20th century in response to this American macro-theorist
Who is Talcott Parsons?
The father of exchange theory who was inspired by psychologists, seeing all human behavior as a result of past rewards and punishments.
Who is George C Homans?
John B Watson focused mostly on this, instead of internal mental states. he believed we only needed to study this aspect of a person because there is "no such thing as a mental life"
What is external behavior?
Hechter said that HEM's temper selfishness for to gain these for themselves that include fame, referrals, and connections.
What are joint goods?
Adam Smith believed this form of economy held society together.
What is self-interested capitalism
This collectivist theorist said we all have a "collective unconscious", which means a concern for our group. This lead him to believe human behavior is not equivalent to animal behavior.
Who is Claude Levi Strauss?
Homans said this typen of exchange is voluntaristic between two people, and only occurs when there is mutual benefit.
What is dyadic exchnage?
This resource is made of valuable and productive social ties, and cannot be gained if a person is totally selfish or disobedient.
What is social capital?
This ideology says that the moral correctness of actions is independent of motive. If an action makes more people more happy, it is right. If it makes more people unhappy, it is wrong.
This exchange theorist believed the social significance of exchange is more important than economic motives, and exchanges foster social solidarity.
This theorist said that learning is just the acquisition of new behaviors and behavior is dependent on operant conditioning.
Who is B.F Skinner?
- share monitoring burden
- public rituals
- increase group decision making
- increase homogenous culture
What are critiques of exchnage theory?
- does not consider structural constraints
- what about opression?
- how can altruism exist?
This rational choice theorist said human interactions are transactions between the people that have resources and the people that seek resources.
Who is James Coleman?