Famous Theorists
Emphasized the need to preserve the moral compass provided by religion.
Who is Immanuel Kant?
Focused on the political, economic, and social institutions at the MACRO level but on the everyday world of individuals.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
In his 3rd phase of life, Parson's developed his "Interchange Model" to focus on the evolution of societies.
The original name for sociology.
What is social physics?
Socially designed to represent the meaning of objects and experiences.
What are signs?
Coined the term "SOCIOLOGY" in 1839.
Who is Aguste Compte?
Emphasized how group dynamics themselves shape individual's decisions.
What is Rational Choice Theory?
The development of Feminist Theory.
When was the 1960's?
A branch of social history that studies the evolution of kinship groups.
What is the history of family?
An idea, object, experience, belief, concept, or feeling that one individual wishes to express to another.
What is signified?
Viewed Social Order as continually emerging through everyday activities as they make sense of it all.
Who is Herbert Mead?
Sought to eliminate oppressive nature of modern capitalist societies.
What is Critical Theory?
The term "Symbolic Interactionism" was coined.
When was 1937?
Individuals who study human behavior, interaction, and organization.
What is a Sociologist?
The feeling of likeness.
What is Mechanical Solidarity?
Focused on the interpenetration of structural forces sich as the capitalist economy and beaurocracy, and systems of meaning, such as religion.
Who is Max Weber?
The most dominant theoretical approach from 1930's-1970's.
What is Structural Functionalism?
The European Enlightenment Era
When was the 17th century?
The founding father of American Sociology.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
The amount of books that Talcott Parson's wrote in his career.
What is 17?
Sought to explain how oftentimes intangable social forces such as moral codes, organize order in our world.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
A system of generalized statements or propositions about phenomena
What is Sociological Theory?
The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
was this published in 1959?
The three founding fathers of Sociology
Who are Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber?
Who said, "It is not possible to understand one's life without understanding their social history"
Who is C. Wright Mills?