Intro To Sociology Chapter 1

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Proposed the concept of the sociological imagination.

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C. Wright Mills

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Coined the term sociology

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Auguste Comte

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One of the first sociologist to analyze the customs and lifestyles of nineteenth-century America in a comprehensive, comparative, and objective manner.

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Harriet Martineau

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An early sociologist who developed many of the standard concepts in the discipline and was a strong advocate of social Darwinism

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Herbert Spenser

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Pioneered the conflict theory. Focused on societal forces that produced inequalities, particulary in capitalist societies, which he predicted would eventually be polarized into workers and owners.

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Karl Marx

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Produced the first empirical sociological study in which he explained how such individual acts as suicide could be explained by understanding a social integration and social forces.

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Emile Durkheim

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Explained how a belief system such as religion could provide an understanding of how new economic systems and institutions could develop. Also pioneered the study of bureaucracy.

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Max Weber

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Early Critic of American racial practices. Challenged racist academic theories proposing inferiority of African Americans. Argued that whites, since they held power, had responsibility to promote equality.

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W.E.B. Dubois

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A MAJOR FORCE IN SOCIOLOGY WHO ADVOCATED A VALUE-FREE APPROACH TO FUNTIONALIST SOCIOLOGY

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Talcott Parsons

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A Theorist who developed the concept of manifest and latent function

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Robert Merton

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Pioneered the symbolic interaction perspective

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George Herbert Mead

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Coined the term ethnomethodology as an approach to the sociological study of everyday life.

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Harold Gafinkel

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Founded Hull House which became a settlement center for immigrant coming to Chicago in the late 19th Century.

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Jane Addams

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Suicide resulting from a very high level of group identity and overinvolvement with others.

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Altruistic suicide

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Suicide resulting from low group solidarity and underinvolvement with others

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Egoistic suicide

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Suicide resulting from a sense of feeling disconnected from society's values

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Anomic Sucide