Sociologists
He created positivism, a very influential view on sociology that would be debated for years to come.
Who is Auguste Comte?
Undesirable consequences of a social process
What are dysfunctions or latent functions?
Failure to take gradual social change into account in changing a society
What are the criticisms of conflict theory?
According to this theory, this is how people make sense of their social worlds
What is communication (or the exchange of meaning through language and symbols)?
A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, interact, and share a culture
What is a society?
A sociologist, philosopher and art critic who believed that conflict is essential for harmony in society
Who is Georg Simmel?
Theorists who observe how social institutions cooperate with one another
Who are functionalists?
An examination of competition for limited resources
What is conflict theory?
The study of how communication influences social interactions and relationships between the individuals in society
What is symbolic interactionism?
Constructs that govern society such as law, morality, religion, and customs
What are social facts?
She is considered the first female sociologist
Who is Harriet Martineau?
A functioning society where all social institutions work together in harmony
What is dynamic equilibrium?
The founder of this approach, German
Who is Karl Marx?
The level of study for symbolic interactionism
What is micro-level study?
A group's shared values, practices, and beliefs
What is culture?
He associated religion and capitalism in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Who is Max Weber?
The preferred consequences of a social process
What are manifest functions?
According to conflict theorists, this group maintains the status quo and current social institutions.
Who are the rich and powerful people?
An extension of the theory that proposes the reality is what we construct it to be
What is constructivism?
The awareness of the relationship between a person's behaviour and the wider culture.
What is the sociological imagination?
He founded the first European department of sociology
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Something that functionalism fails to explain due to functionalism's static nature
What is social change?
This German sociologist agreed with Marx but also believed that, in addition to economic inequalities, inequalities of political power and social structure cause conflict.
Who is Max Weber?
He is considered to be the founder of the symbolic interactionism theory.
Who is George Herbert Mead?
The view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values
What is antipositivism?