Theories and Theorists
He maintained a different perspective in that he said that economic issues produce divisiveness rather than social solidarity.
Karl Marx
The scientific study of human behavior in society.
Sociology
A controlled artificial situation that allows researchers to manipulate variables and measure effects.
Experiment
Resources that give a group advantages, sets up boundaries between social classes.
Cultural Capital
authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, uninvolved
Styles of parenting
This theory states that society is composed of interrelated, mutually dependent parts.
Functionalist Theory
Being objective when analyzing society, able to separate one’s own personal values, opinions, ideology and beliefs from scientific research.
Value Free
Choose topic, summarize research, formulate research, describe data collection methods
The steps in the scientific method
A belief that no culture is better than another.
Cultural Relativism
A two-step process- degradation ceremonies and building new identity
Resocialization Process
This theory examines how and why groups disagree and struggle.
Conflict Theory
Seeing the relationship between individual experiences, (personal troubles) and structural (public and historical issues)
Sociological Imagination
A body of objective and systematic techniques used to investigate phenomena, acquire knowledge, and test hypotheses and theories.
The Scientific Method
The ideas that people create to interpret and understand the world. Examples: symbols, values, norms,
Non Material Culture
The individuals, groups, or institutions that teach us how to participate effectively in society.
Socialization agents
He saw Sociology as the scientific study of two aspects of society: social statics and social dynamics.
Auguste Comte
The standards by which people decide what is good or bad, moral or immoral, proper or improper, beautiful or ugly, etc. Examples: achievement, progress, freedom, conformity, etc.
Values
An abstract idea, mental image, or general notion that represents some aspect of the world.
Concept
The cultural values and products of one society influence or dominate the another culture.
Cultural Imperialism
Learning to take the perspective of others. (Mead’s theory of the I and the me)
Role Taking
This theory maintains people continuously reinterpret and reevaluate their knowledge and information in their everyday encounters.
Symbolic Interactionist
Specific rules of right and wrong behavior.
Norms
A group of people or things representative of the population researchers wish to study
Sample
Refers to the co-existence of several cultures in the same geographic area, without one culture dominating another with the hopes that racism, sexism, etc. will decrease as a result.
Multiculturalism
A self-image based on how others see us. (Cooley)
Looking glass self