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Karl Marx |
-communist and socialist -states after modern industry society split between bourgeoisie and proletariat |
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Auguste Comte |
-father of sociology -founder of positivism |
Positivism: society studied using scientific methods |
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Margaret Mead |
-An anthropologist that studied a society in New Guinea where gender roles opposed those in the western society |
Gender roles. |
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William Wilson |
-argued that class is more important than race in understanding access to valuable social resources, such as jobs |
Life chances |
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Travis Hirschi |
Developed the social control theory to help understand what factors make people conform |
Social conformity |
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Emile Durkhiem |
-functionalist -positivist -saw society as a set of independent parts that maintain a system -believed those with low social interaction are more likely to commit suicide |
Many + suicide |
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Solomon Asch |
Showed that social pressure can make an individual to say something that is obviously not true |
Conformity |
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Charles Mills |
-developed a theory that states the government use the entirety of society to achieve political ends that benefit themselves first and foremost |
Government |
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Anthony Giddens |
His theory addresses whether structure or agency determines human behaviour |
Human behaviour |
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Pierre Bourdieu |
-developed the cultural deprivation theory -the general thought where people think that higher class cultures are better off than lower class cultures -this thought leads the higher cultural classes blaming the lower cultural classes for their children's short comings in learning and advancements -higher cultured classes assume superiority and self propelling prophecies |
Cultural deprivation theory |
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Jurgens Habermas |
-his theory of communicative rationality -through successful communication comes human rationality |
Communicative rationality |
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Michel Foucault |
-He popularised the idea that through knowledge and power institutions gain social control |
Social control within institutions |
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Erving Goffman |
-developed the theory of dramaturgy
-we are all actors playing our respective roles in everyday life -the concept of self is dependent on time, place and audience I.e. we work to fit ourselves to culural norms and values in order to gain acceptance. |
Dramaturgy |
