General Sociology
History of Sociology
The Three Theoretical Perspectives
General Culture
Elements of Culture
100
The study of small and/or large groups interactions, societies and social interactions.
What is sociology?
100
She is the first female sociologist.
Who is Harriet Martineau?
100
A theoretical perspective based on the teachings of Emile Durkheim and believing upon the idea that society is built upon a structure.
What is Functionalism?
100
Evaluating and judging another culture based on how it compares to one's own cultural norms.
What is ethnocentrism?
100
Elements within a society that determine the difference between the good and the bad.
What are Values?
200
It is something that influences our way of life; from everyday routine to our social interactions.
What is culture?
200
A German philosopher who's ideas are one of the leading theories used in modern sociology.
Who is Karl Marx?
200
A theoretical perspective that believes that society is developed through several stages and that society must have a social class.
What is Conflict Theory?
200
Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies, as stated by George Murdock.
What are cultural universals?
200
Through actions, sanctions and rewards.
How are values put into action?
300
These are the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashion, rituals and cultural rules that shape and govern our life.
What are social facts?
300
The philosophy of Max Weber that teaches us to understand the social world.
What is anti-positivism?
300
A theoretical perspective that focuses on the relationships between individuals in a community.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
300
It is the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards and not your own.
What is cultural relativism?
300
The belief that reality is culturally determined, and any interpretation of reality is based on society's language.
What is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?
400
Process of analyzing the behaviors of individuals and the society that shapes that behaviour
What is figuration?
400
He rejected Conte's philosophy and Marx's theory of class struggle and his support of communism.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
400
The lowest social class members in the Conflict Theory.
What is a Proletariat?
400
A term sociologists use to refer to a segment of society that shares a distinctive pattern of mores, folkways, and values that differ from the pattern of the larger society.
What is subculture?
400
They uphold societal values.
What is the purpose of symbols?
500
It teaches people ways to recognize how they fit into the world and how others perceive them and to let them see, from a sociological perspective, how they classify themselves and how others classify them. This raises awareness on how those classifications would affect human perception.
Why study Sociology?
500
His works are not credited in academic papers as much as other sociologists as he is often overshadowed by Emile Durkheim, George Mead and Max Weber.
Who is Georg Simmel?
500
Micro-level. Now, sociologists look at small local groups and individual reality.
What is the level of approach for post-modern sociology?
500
A subculture shares some values, norms, and behaviors that are not shared by the larger culture. When subcultural practices consciously challenge the values of a larger society, the subculture is a counterculture.
How are subcultures and countercultures related?
500
Started in US - predominately in hotspots such as the Williamsburg neighbourhood in New York City.
Where and when did the hipster culture begin?
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