Sociological Thinkers
The 19th century thinker who came up with the categories of the "bourgeoisie" and the "proletariat"
Karl Marx
After studying Sociology, Mary Romero decided to study this phenomenon more depth
Domestic Work
The specific element that make up the society that sociologists study
social facts
The element of culture that represents what is important to a group
Value
The term coined by Erving Goffman to understand how people behave as if they were actors upon a stage
Dramaturgy
The 19th century sociologist who explained the growth of capitalism through religious roots
Max Weber
According to Emily Kane, parents steered both their boy and girl children away from these types of traits
The time period that sociologists always look to in order to understand the current social structure
The past
The process by which we learn the expectations of our social group and internalize its beliefs
socialization
The number of people required to constitute a "society"
three
The sociologist who created the idea of social facts and provided us with a functionalist understanding of crime.
Emile Durkheim
According to Deber and Margass, this system encourages bullying--both in the workplace and the playground
capitalism
The two different ways of envisioning a problem
A personal trouble and a social issue
The two criteria we can use to determine if something is socially constructed
Does it change over time and space?
The type of essay organizational feature that Alvarado-Strasser cannot get students to use
paragraphs
The sociologist who produced the idea of the "looking glass self"
Charles Horton Cooley
Christine Williams said that workers in toy stores had to learn these two different (but alliterative) systems of rules
The rules and the ropes
The ability to inhabit someone else's perspective in order to ask yourself why you would have done the same thing as them
Muscular empathy
The four criteria that must be met for something to be a social fact
empirical, external, coercive and made up of other social facts
The background network of knowledge that a person has on a given topic; something you can activate before reading a text
schema
The very last sociologist you read this semester who came up with the concept of "the sociological imagination" in his piece "The Promise"
C.W. Mills
Weber observed that certain Protestant groups, who were very successful capitalists, had this belief system, which valued efficiency, uniformity, calculability, and predictability.
Rationality
The name of the process by which social change occurs through conflict between the thesis and the antithesis
Hegelian Dialectic
The sociological framework that studies how people make meaning through their interactions with other people
symbolic interactionism
The system that Weber referred to as "the irrationality of rationality" and feared would bring the end of civilizations
Bureaucracy