Sociological Thinkers
Pioneer of the stages of cognitive development
Who is Jean Piaget?
Who is Auguste Comte?
A theoretical framework associated with Marxism
What is conflict theory?
The process through which individuals learn skills, values, and beliefs
What is socialisation?
Group of people who live in a definable community and share the same culture
What is a society?
Sociologist who spearheaded research into social integration
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Creator of the three-component theory of stratification
Who is Max Weber?
The primary agent of socialisation
What is the family?
A group whose values, beliefs, behaviours and norms stand in opposition to the majority of society.
What is counterculture?
Class that owns the means of production
What is the bourgeoisie?
The thinker who expanded on Kohlberg's moral development theory
Who is Carol Gilligan?
Pioneer of the psychosocial stages of development
Who is Erik Erikson?
The ranking of people or groups according to their unequal access to scarce resources
What is social stratification?
Ability to control the behaviour of others
What is power?
A change in status or class from one generation to the next
What is intergenerational mobility?
Pioneer of cultural hegemony
Who is Antonio Gramsci?
Proponent of the classless society
Who is Karl Marx?
A key theory proposed by George Herbert Mead, relating to creating shared meanings
What is symbolic interactionism?
Total economic resources held by a person or group
What is wealth?
Approach that emphasizes the contributions made by each part of society
What is functionalism?
Thinker who created the looking-glass-self theory
Who is Charles Cooley?
Author of "The Philosophy of Money"
Who is Georg Simmel?
Theories which critique and change society as a whole.
What are critical theories?
This theory attempts to explain socialisation and its effect of the development of the self.
What is social learning theory?
Knowledge, values, customs and the physical objects that are shared by members of society
What is culture?