Vocabulary
The behavioral patterns and regularities established by societies that make social action possible
What is social order
Agreement about the things a society, and by extension individuals within that society, thinks are important
What is value consensus
Named the scientific study of social patterns positivism.
Who is Auguste Comte
Type of social solidarity characteristic of industrial societies, in which people are bound together by what they do.
What is organic solidarity
Freedom from personal or institutional bias.
What is objectivity
A set of ideas and actions pursued by government to meet a particular social objective.
What is Social Policy
•Large-scale sociological approach where the focus is on social structures and institutions.
what is macrosociology
Believed that societies grew and changed as a result of social sruggles over the means of production.
Who is Karl Marx
A system of related beliefs.
What is ideology
Type of feminism that promotes gender equality.
Liberal feminism
An economic system bases on the pursuit of private profit
what is capitalism
A methodology based on the principle that it is possible and desirable to study the social world in broadly the same way that natural scientists study the natural world.
what is positivism
Created Weberian Theory and the concept of antipositivism
Who is Max Weber
Type of social solidarity characteristic of pre-industrial/tribal societies, in which people are bound together by who they are rather than what they do
What is mechanical solidarity
Positivist research design based on the development and systematic testing of hypotheses.
What is Hypothetico-deductive method
In Marxist theory, this refers to how everything-from raw materials, through labour power to machinery – is organized in the productive process.
What is Forces of Production
Methodology based on the principle that social behavior can only be understood subjectively, by understanding how people interpret situations and, by so doing, give them meaning.
Favored a government that allowed market forces to control capitalism
Who is Herbet Spencer
Microsociological perspective that rejects the modernist claim that the social world can be understood rationally and empirically. Focus is on understanding how people construct personal narratives (stories), through which they make sense of the world.
What is Postmodernism
The social characteristics different societies assign to individuals based on an understanding of their biological or social differences.
What is Gender
Type of society characterised by particular forms of political, economic (mass productions, manufacturing) and cultural (science, reason) beliefs and practices.
What is Modern Industrial Society
Manifest functions are intended consequences of an action; latent functions are the hidden or sometimes unintended consequences of that same actions.
What is Functions, Manifest and Latent
Focused on woman inequality. Showed that equality is inconsistent with women's rights
Who is Harriet Martineau
Major, if dated, sociological theory that argues that consensus is the overriding principle on which societies are based. Focus is on institutional relationships and the functions they preform for the individual and society.
What is Functionalist Theory
Form of sociology, such as functionalism and Marxism, that focuses on analysing society in terms of its institutional relationship and their effect on individual beliefs and behaviours.
What is Structalist