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The theorist that coined the term sociology
Who is Aguste Comte
100
The intended or recognized purpose of any social pattern.
What is manifest function
100
The owners of the means of production
Who are the Bourgoisie
100
A statement of how and why specific facts are related.
What is a theory?
100
The component of the self in Mead's theory that is the dynamic, spotaneous and autonomous aspect of self hood. The subject
What is The I?
200
The father of communism
Who is Karl Marx?
200
A framework for bulding theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and statbility
What is Funcitonalist theory?
200
A framework for building theory that sees society as the product of everyday interaction of individuals.
What is interactionism?
200
Any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society.
What is a dysfunction.
200
A type of social solidarity based on tradition, kinship and familial networks.
What is mechanical solidarity?
300
This theorist wrote the Spirit of Capitalism.
Who is Max Weber?
300
The unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern
What is latent function?
300
A type of solidarity that arises from interdependence that arises from specialization of work (the division of labour).
What is Organic Solidarity?
300
The class of wage-earners (especially industrial workers) in a capitalist society whose only possession of significant material value is their labour-power.
What is the proletariat?
300
the worker invariably loses the ability to determine his or her life and destiny, when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of himself as the director of his actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own the things and use the value of the goods and services, produced with his or her labour.
What is the alienation of labour?
400
The theorist that coined the term looking glass self.
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
400
A component of the self that is shaped by external soial conditions and is responsive to them.
What is the Me?
400
This theorist argued that we create norms, folkways and mores to fulfill human's basic instincts.
Who is William Graham Sumner?
400
A framework for buliding theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change
What is conflict theory?
400
a term coined by Max Weber for the increased rationalization inherent in western industrialized societyes in which human beings become trapped in systems based purely on efficiency, rationality, calculation and control.
What is the Iron Cage of Bureaucracy?
500
The classical theorist who was a major proponent of the functionalist perspective.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
500
A scientific approach to knowledge based on positive facts as opposed to mere speculation
What is positivism?
500
people shaping their self-concepts based on their understanding of how others perceive them.
What is the looking glass self?
500
The values, cultural norms, and social structures which transcend the individual and are capable of exercising a social constraint.
What is a social fact?
500
A German term utilized by Max Weber to illustrate the importance of meaning and interpretation to understanding society.
What is Verstehen.