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Sociology:
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the systematic study of social behavior and human groups.
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Social imagination
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an awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
Term coined by C. Wright Mills. (describes this type of creative thinking as the ability to view one's own society as an outsider. |
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verstehen
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Max Weber (1846-1920)
German for "Understanding or Insight" Weber taught his students to employ verstehen. |
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Theory
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a set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions or behavior.
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Coined the term 'sociology' to apply to the science of human behavior. He called sociology the "queen" and its practitioners "scientist-priest"
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Auguste Comte 1798-1857
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Theoretical work on suicide, appointed as one of the first professors of sociology in France. Insistence that behavior must be understood within a larger social context not just in individualistic terms.
Training: Philosophy Works: The Division of Labor in Society 1893 Suicide: A Study in Sociology 1897 Elementary Forms of Religious Life 1912 |
Emile Durkheim 1858-1917
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Anomie
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the loss of direction a society feels when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
Durkheim |
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German, Professor, taught his students to employ Verstehen.
Training in Law, economics, history, philosophy. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. |
Max Webber 1864-1920
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Training: Philosophy and law
Works: The Communist Manifesto 1848 Das Kapital 1867. Critical of existing institutions, spent life in exile. His analysis was fundamentally divided between classes that clash in pursuit of their own class interest. |
Karl Marx 1818-1883
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Preferred to use the sociological perspective to look first at smaller units - intimate, face to face groups such as families, gangs, friendship networks. Increased understanding of groups of relatively small size.
Training in Economics. Professor of Sociology at University of Michigan |
Charles Horton Cooley 1864-1929
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