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Subcultures |
A cultural group within a larger culture often having beliefs or interest at various with those of larger cultures |
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Manifest functions |
Recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern |
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Latent functions |
Unrecognized and unintended consequences |
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Auguste Comte |
was a French philosopher who founded sociology, or the scientific study of society. He believed in positivism, which is the idea that only scientific truth is the real truth.
Thought we could determine right and wrong without higher power Thought evolution of society is based on the evolution of mind through the theological, metaphysical, and positivist stages. |
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Herbert Spencer |
theory of organic analogy in which he developed the tendency to see society as an organism(shared with Durkheim and Comte)
most notable exponent of social evolution(his reputation at the time rivaled that of Charles Darwin) |
Functionalist |
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Emile Durkheim |
Famous for his views on the structure of society. He wanted to know how modern capitalism and the industrialization have transformed the way people relate to one another
Did a work called "suicide" (anomie) despair that rises when we can not expect life to be predicted.
Often considered the founder of positivist sociology(originated from Comte) |
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Talcott Parsons |
He used the structural functional perspective. argued that order and stability in a society are the result of the influence of certain values in society, rather than in structure such as the economic system. He believed stable supportive families are the key to a successful socialization |
Function functionalist, he was concerned with how elements of society were functional for a society. |
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Robert Merton |
He contributed to the study of social life he acknowledged that some functions actually disrupted society. These functions are known as the manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions. |
Functionalist |
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Karl Marx |
Considered the father of modern sociology. His theories had an impact on economic and political history. Created the term historical materialism based on class struggle and the theory of alienation of workers under capitalist conditions |
Founder of the Conflict perspective |
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W. E. B. Du Bois |
First to undertake ethnography in the African American Community Developed Double conscious where African Americans have two behavioral scripts 1. Moving through the world 2. Incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced on lookers |
Cofounder of the NAACP |
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C.Wright Mills |
believed it is the job of all social scientists to connect individual problems with greater social issues in order to create changes that would solve the problems. Mills coined the term sociological imagination, which means awareness between one's self and the broader social world around them |
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Erving Goffman |
sociologist who viewed society through the symbolic interaction perspective; this perspective looks at the everyday behavior and interactions between people to help explain society.
introduced a popular thinking within the symbolic-interaction perspective called the dramaturgical approach |
Symbolic interaction perspective |
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Betty Friedan |
Writer, feminist and women's rights activist Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique (1963) and co-founded the National Organization for Women.
text of modern feminism |
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Max Weber |
Three of his biggest contributions to sociology include the way he theorized the relationship between culture and economy, his theory of authority, and his concept of the iron cage of rationality. Concept of Versteben (suggested that sociologist approach social behavior from the perspevtive of those engaging in it) 2 volume Economy and Society |
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Functional vs. Conflict |
Functional focuses on the positiveConflict focuses on the negative |
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