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10 Cards in this Set
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Comte
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invented term 'sociology'
positivism - likened to a natural science blueprint of society queen of sciences |
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What is sociology?
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Systematic study of society and its structure
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Early social thinkers?
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Comte
Emile Durkheim Karl Marx |
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Marxism
Conflict Theory |
society constructed from class
most consist of two major class class conflict social change occurs as result |
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Functionalism 2
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How social order maintained
society shapes what we do equilibrium maintained social institutions interdependant biological analogy |
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Socialisation
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Family- primary socialisation Education- secondary
Social class- provider place in society Collective conscience-consensus |
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Functionalism
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macro view of society as a whole
social order passively taken on objective followed scientific research methods |
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Superstructure
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Education, religion, family, mass media, politics,
everything not to do with production maintains and legitimises the base |
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Means of production
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factories, land,capital, labour, machinery, scientific knowledge,
earlier=peasant labour, land,livestock |
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Base
shapes the superstructure |
relations of production
bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat means of production, machinery |
