Flashcards: Exploring Everyday Sociology Concepts

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Sociology

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Study of society and social behavior

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Status

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Value associated with different positions

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Purpose of institutions

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Maintain social order, a long standing and formal aspect of society

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Jane Addams

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The pioneer of "Social Work"

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Structural Functionalist view of society

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Complex system of interrelated parts for stability and social order

ex: Emile Durkheim

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Conflict Theorists' view of society

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Constant struggle for power and resources

ex) Karl Marx

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Symbolic Interactionist view of society

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Interactions based on mutually understood symbols

Ex. George Mead

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August Comte

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Law of Three Stages; human history has evolved to believing that the world and its people can be investigated and understood scientifically

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Emile Durkheim

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Humanity has evolved into a complet modern society in which individuals are not interdependent and must rely on each other to function as a whole

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Ferdinand Tonnies

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Gesellschaft: in modern society relationships built on self-interests and "transactional" in nature