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Complex framwork composed of both patterned social interactions and institutions that together organizes social life and provide the context for individual

Social Structure

A major sphere of social life, with a set of beliefs and rules that is organized to meet basic human needs

Social institutions

A quality of the mind that allows us to understand the relationship between our particular situation in life and what is happening at a social level

Sociological imagination

Societies pass through three stages

Religious


Metaphysical


Scientific

Auguste Comte

Father of sociology


Positivism


Passed 3 stages


Sociology be treated like any other scientific dicipline


Evolutionist

Herbert Spencer

Evolutionist


"Survival of the fittest"


"Social Darwinism"


2nd founder of sociology


Disagreed with comte- leave "society" alone

Karl Marx

Conflict between groups ( class conflict)


Many social probs. result from capitalism cud inequality between


- bourgeoise


- proletariat


Macro


Deefined capitalism as an economic system based on the bourgosie explointing the proletariat


False conscious - u dnt know ur being exposed ( used)


Religion- keeps u numb " opiate of the masses"


Class consciousness


Revolution vs. Evolution


Revolutionist


Believed in social reform


Emile Durkheim

Study on suicide


From division of labor in society


- mechanical solidarity (need ppl cuz we are the same)


- organic solidarity (modern and post modern)

Sociology

Social structure


Unique position


Curious mind

Macro/Micro continunume

Society


Culture


Social institution


Social inequality


Groups


Roles


Socialization


Interactions


Self

What are the five basic social institutions?

Family


Government


Religion


Economy


Education


6th is mass media

Structure influences agency

Structure and agency

Key factors

Sociological imagination


Critical thinking

Historical developments

The scientific revolution


Enlightenment


Industrialization


Urbanization