Sociology Unit 1

People

100

This guy believed in "positivism" or pushing society from religious to scientific thinking.

Auguste Comte

200

This guy was the ultimate conflict theorist, believing that society was constantly in battle for scarce resources.

Karl Marx

300

This guy believed that hard work pushes you forward, miracles don't exist, aka the Protestant Ethic.

Max Weber

400

This guy made his own theorum where if a situation is defined as real by the person, then it's consequences are real, too. Like if you are called stupid by a teacher and begin to believe it.

William Isaac Thomas

500

We talked about one woman this unit, what was her name?

Jane Addams

Ideas

100

Give an example of collective effervescence.

Anything with a shared experience

200

If you want to understand the experience of a high school senior, you would need to understand or grasp by insight, using this:

Verstehen 

300

Which theory looks at children and how they play to understand their role in society.

Theory of Social Behaviorism

400

What are the three steps in the Looking Glass Self?

1. imagine how we appear

2. interpret reactions

3. develop a self concept

500

What is the difference between latent and manifest function?

latent - unintended consequences

manifest - intended purpose

Theories

100

If two students are going head to head for valedictorian, only one can get it. This is a scarce resource. What theory??

conflict

200

You weigh the pros and cons of asking your friend out on a date and make the choice to YOLO.

exchange-rational choice

300

The intended purpose of school is learning! This is its

function

400

You're a freshman at lunch for the first time, you look around and see people playing your favorite video game. You decide to sit with them bc of this theory

Symbolic Interactionism

500

What are my kids names?

Archer and Mila