WGU C273 (2022/2023) Rated A+
- Wright Mills ✔✔coined the term sociological imagination
sociological imagination ✔✔the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society
Sociology ✔✔systematic study of social life and human society. The sociological perspective looks for the "general in the particular
Émile Durkheim ✔✔one of the first sociologists to specify what exactly is "social" about our individual actions and decisions
Social Facts (Durkheim) ✔✔"types of behavior and thinking external to the individual" which have "a compelling and coercive power"
Auguste Comte ✔✔Father of sociology, positivism
Harriet Martineau ✔✔sociologist who study and promoted feminist issues 1 / 3
Karl Marx ✔✔Conflict is the driving force behind social change materialist conception of history criticized capitalism father of communism
Herbert Spencer ✔✔did not necessarily want to improve society; he only wanted to understand it social Darwinism - natural selection
Mechanical Solidarity (Durkheim) ✔✔connections based on the similarity of beliefs and values
Organic Solidarity (Durkheim) ✔✔social bonds among people in modern cities who specialize in different jobs but who rely on each other
functionalism ✔✔recognition that different aspects of society work together to form a complex whole
Positivism ✔✔the application of the scientific method to the social world 2 / 3
Suicide study ✔✔males, protestants, and unmarried are more likely to commit suicide, social factors underlie suicide; people with weaker ties; more likely to commit
Harriet Martineau ✔✔Brought sociology to England and furthered it by focusing on issues in the domestic sphere
Jane Addams ✔✔promoted sympathetic knowledge (knowledge that comes from identifying with others) Founded Hull House with Ellen G. Starr; a center to help immigrants in Chicago
Karl Marx ✔✔Conflict theory: groups competing for scarce resources. Society is made up of two
social classes: capitalists and exploited workers
Max Weber ✔✔A key figure who studied modernization in society; the movement from traditional to capitalist societies
Herbert Spencer ✔✔Darwin's theory of social evolution to society fittest members produce a more advanced society
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