People
Father of Sociology
Auguste Comte
Family and close friends
Primary group
Weighing a negative v positive outcome
Exchange
Something that a society does with no moral value
Folkway
Role expectation
Influenced by Charles Darwin
Herbert Spencer
Friends in a certain social setting but not outside of it
Secondary group
Contest between two groups for power
Competition
Something a society does that has moral value
More
When someone cannot meet the demands of their role
Role strain
Communist manifesto
Karl Marx
A group you believe you belong to
In group
When unequal amounts of resources and power exist
Conflict
Something of moral value that was enacted into legislature.
Law
Primary identifying characteristic of an individual
Master status
First university class for sociology
Emile Durkheim
Anyone who doesn't belong to your group
Out group
The process in which two or more individuals work together to achieve a shared goal
Cooperation
Something that a culture is used to but might seem weird to outsiders
Norm
Social status of someone that is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily
Ascribed status
Theory of Verstechen
Max Weber
Any group that is formed on purpose
Formal group
The process of mutual adaptation between people or groups
Accommodation
Something that a culture forbids because of either it being too sacred or dangerous (not talked about yet)
Taboo
A position that a person acquires that is earned.
Achieved position