Sociology Chapter 1

define sociological perspective

focuses on people at a social level

define social dynamics

examining social change

example of symbols

when an athlete holds a clenched fist over her head after scoring a point

define organic solidarity

most people have highly specialized roles

example of group conformity

when all members of the tennis team wear white clothing to competitions

according to Karl Marx what would a communistic society be like?

be classless

define dramaturgy

all the world's stage and all the men and women merely players

example of manifest function

using email has made it fast, easy and inexpensive for families to keep in touch

example of latent function

using email has decrease the number of hand written letters that people send to their friends

example of perspective

mom wanting you to cook dinner every Wednesday, you feel that it takes too long and its cuts into after school activities

example of power

the state requiring all young people to attend school until they are 16

example of symbolic interactionalists

emphasizes that people can communicate because they share words, gestures and physical objects that have similar meanings to all

define functionalism

emphasizes the contributions of each part of society and how the parts work together to create a unified whole

define conflict perspective

people with the most power are seen as the most valuable to society

example of dysfunction

when government regulations become so complex that they make it hard for citizens to accomplish the work efficiently

define conformity

conforms to a group because they have learned to value a group's behavior

what sociologists challenge

conventional social wisdom

what people believed before the the Industrial Revolution

in luck and fate and rather than knowledge and science

W.E.B DuBois

Pan-African movement

Emile Durkheim

mechanical solidarity; believed that societies can exist because there are broad agreements among 3 members

Karl Marx

conflict because the bourgeois and the proletariat

Max Weber

verstehen - being able to put yourself in another's place

Jane Addams

social reform and co-founded Chicago's Hull House

Auguste Comte

positivism

C. Wright Mills

sociological imagination

example of verstehen

when you try to understand your friend's feelings by putting yourself in her situation