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Opens a window into unfamiliar worlds
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sociological perspective
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Enables us to grasp the connection between history and biography
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sociological imagination
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Positivism - suggested that we apply the scientific method to the social world
Coined the term sociology |
August Comte
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Said that sociology should not guide social reform: societies are evolving and we shouldn't interfere. Society goes from a lower form to a higher form
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Herbert Spencer
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Class Conflict
thought that people should try to change society - proposal: revolution |
Karl Marx
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Suicidal research
identified social integration - degree to which people are tied to their social group awarded world's 1st academic appt in sociology in 1887 |
Emile Durkheim
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RELIGION
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Max Weber
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Co-founded NAACP
1st African American to earn doctorate at Harvard |
W.E.B. Du Bois
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Co-founded Hull House in 1889
recipient of Nobel Peace Prize |
Jane Addams
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"Society in America"
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Harriet Martineau
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Evaluate own conduct by comparing yourself to others
Use symbols to make meaning of the world Smaller scale groups (MICROSOCIOLOGY) |
symbolic interactionism
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View society as a whole unit made up of interrelated parts (MACROSOCIOLOGY)
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functionalism
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Battling over same part (MACROSOCIOLOGY)
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conflict theory
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Human actions can also hurt a system -> such consequences are unintended
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latent dysfunction
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Action is intended to help some part of a system
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manifest dysfunction
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