Comte
Comte was deeply influenced by this historical event.
What is the French Revolution?
Marx saw this divide society.
What is class conflict?
A lack of social norms and standards creating purposelessness in people’s lives
What is anomie?
Weber's main sociological theory.
What is Social Action Theory?
These are Mr. Kiser's dogs.
Who is Fran and Gustav?
Comte saw that all genuine knowledge is derived by reason and logic from this.
What is experience?
Marx's sociological theory.
What is Conflict Theory?
Durkheim's view of society where every person played some role (function) in a interconnected web.
What is functionalism?
This helped Capitalism develop according to Weber.
What is the Protestant Work Ethic?
What's Mr. Kiser's subject specialty in WWII historigraphy?
What is the Battle of the Bulge? (Double points if you guess the Battle of Stavelot/Stavelot pocket.)
This was Comte's law of Society's development.
What is the law of three stages?
The Class in modernity which owns the means of Production.
What is the bourgeoisie?
A type of human connection prevalent in traditional, simpler societies where people share similar values, beliefs, and work.
What is mechanical Solidarity?
Capitalism tended to make a society this because of its focus on scientific progress (to maximize efficiency and profit)
What is Secular?
Rousseau was critical of this element of modernity.
What are the sciences?
A stage in human development where people believe in abstract forces and powers that guide the world.
What is the Metaphysical Stage of Development?
The separation between the proletarian (worker) and the means of production cause this
What is alienation?
A type of human connection found in modern, complex societies where individuals have specialized roles but rely on each other for survival.
What is organic solidarity?
This is where mankind became trapped in a world of "Specialists without Spirit"
What is the "Iron Cage of Rationalization?"
This German rejected Comte's Positivism and believed in cultural "Morphology."
Who is Oswald Spengler?
Comte developed this Philosophy.
What is Positivism?
The fundamental driving force behind human history and development.
What are material conditions?
This sort of development seemed to correspond with a rise in suicides.
What is Industrialization?
This Leadership style would probably best describe Hitler...but also Abraham Lincoln according to Weber.
What is a charismatic leader?
Weber's theory focused on this.
What is human interaction?
The values, norms, and structures that exist outside of the individual
What are Social Facts?
The interactions and relationships between people and /or people and things
What are Social Relations?
Durkheim found that this, by itself, was not a leading cause of suicide.
What is poverty?
In order to figure out how to maximize efficiency, Weber saw that Capitalist societies tended to make these.
What is Bureaucracies?
Weber saw this as a leader of business and industry
What is the rational-legal leader?
Comte believed this was the best way to collect data.
What is the Scientific Method?
Marx's Conflict theory was based on this understanding of reality.
What is Materialism?
Durkheim, like Comte, saw that society was held together by a collection of these.
What are Social Facts?
Weber thought the world lost its Mystery thus this happened to the world.
What is disenchantment?
This is the political philosophy dominant in the Modern Western World.
What is Liberalism?