Sociological Perspectives
Ongoing inequality between groups leads to changes in laws, policies, and social structures. Which theory best explains this situation?
What is the conflict theory/perspective?
The scientific study of human social behavior
What is sociology?
He is considered the "father of sociology" and coined the term.
Who is Auguste Comte?
Using Sociology to solve problems
What is applied sociology?
Any social pattern that has undesirable consequences for society's functioning.
What is dysfunction?
Focuses on how individuals act with one another in daily situations. Micro-sociology
What is symbolic Interactionism?
Schools teach kids math, science, and English
Schools acting as free childcare for working parents
What are manifest and latent functions?
Sociologists should not just study social behavior but also act to bring solutions to social problems. The founder of Hull House is considered the first social worker.
Who is Jane Addams?
This level of analysis focuses on broad social structures and long-term processes, such as the economy, the legal system, or a country's overall class structure.
What is Macro-sociology?
A social position into which one is born; involuntary
What is ascribed status?
This perspective holds that a change in one part of society leads to a change in another, such as a factory closing down and laying off workers can lead to other businesses closing
What is functionalism?
Weber believed that interpreting the actions of your subject from their point of view helps you understand the intentions and meanings behind their behavior.
What is Verstehen?
Social inequality is due to people's actions. People who are better off deserve it, and people who are struggling should work harder.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
Rules established by a society that have varying severity of sanctions (punishments or rewards) if violated
What are Social Norms?
The organized means each society develops to meet its basic needs (Family, Government, Media, Economics, Education)
What are Institutions?
Human knowledge and society evolved through distinct phases. This represents a shift from seeking absolute, divine causes to identifying observable, scientific laws governing phenomena.
What is The Law of Three Stages?
The ability to see the connection between personal experiences and larger societal forces.
What is the sociological imagination?
Believed African Americans hold a double identity, his own and the one society placed on him. There is a constant struggle for power, and power is connected to race. One of the NAACP's founders.
Who is W.E.B. DuBios?
A condition that undermines the well-being of some or all members of a society and is usually a matter of public controversy. It is not limited to a single person and requires the effort of an entire society to solve.
What are Social Problems?
A sociologist might question why Americans shake hands to greet one another rather than bow or kiss on the cheek.
What is seeing the strange in the familiar?
"Survival of the fittest"
What is Social Darwinism?
The belief that knowledge should be obtained from scientific observation.
What is positivism?
We live in a complex society in which individuals are interdependent and must rely on one another to function as a whole. Described society as an ecosystem.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Pieces of evidence that contradict what you have always believed or want to believe about the social world
What are Inconvenient Facts?
Involves identifying overall social patterns in individual behavior.
What is seeing the general in the particular?