Who?
He promoted studying society as a science and is credited as the founder of sociology.
Who is Auguste Comte?
What is critical thinking?
A state of normlessness; when people lose touch with shared rules and order.
What is anomie?
A controversial economist who wrote that class conflict is the result of unequal access to means of production.
Who is Karl Marx?
Cultures that exist together with the dominant culture but differ in some way. Typically there are some distinct material and non-material elements recognized by those involved.
What is subculture?
She was critical of women's forced dependence on marriage and authored the Yellow Wallpaper.
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gilman?
Accepted social behaviors and beliefs.
What are norms?
The ability of individual and groups to exercise free will and make social changes.
What is agency?
An approach states that society is a complex system; parts work together to promote solidarity and stability
What is The Structural-Functional Approach?
What are non-material elements of culture?
Who is Robert W. Merton?
Name for working people (according to Marx).
What are the proletariat?
"Honesty is the best policy" as an ideal, yet cheating is a common practice among people both in terms of ethical issues and relationships.
What is cultural inconsistency?
He wrote the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and described formal rationality as people's pursuit of goals increasingly ruled by rules/regulations/bureaucracy.
Who is Max Weber?
Family is the first to socialize us to "this is how we do things." Kindergarten socializes us to "this is how we behave." As a college student you learn "this is what is expected of me".
What are norms?
W.E.B. DuBois claimed African Americans have awareness of self as American and Black
What is double consciousness?
Placing individuals in context of historical forces, economic forces, and environmental forces.
What is the "Sociological Imagination"?
A perspective that the individual and society as a whole are products of social interaction based on language and other symbols.
What is Symbolic Interactionism
Judging another culture from the perspective of your own culture; being suspicious of the "other"
What is Ethnocentrism?
He authored, "The Promise" which introduced the concept of the sociological imagination.
Who is C. Wright Mills?
A function that is unrecognized or expected
What is a latent function?
An intended purpose of a social institution.
What is manifest function.
The theory that focuses on inequality among social classes.
What is Conflict Theory?
A perspective promoting equal standing for all cultures in the United States
What is Multiculturalism?