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bourgeoisie
Own the means of production in industrial society
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conflict perspective
A view that society is composed of groups with clashing interests who engage in a stuggle over control of valuable social resources.
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functionalist perspective
A view that society is a relatively stable and orderly system composed of interdependent and interrelated parts.
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industrialization
The process by which societies are transformed from agricultural-based economic activity to manufacturing-based economic activity.
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latent function
The largely unintended and unrecognized conseuences of an activity or social institution.
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macro-level
A focus on the social institutions and large-scale social processes that shape society as a whole.
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manifest function
The intended, expected, or overtly recognized consequences of an activity or social institution.
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micro-level
A focus on the dynamics and meanings of face-to-face interactions between people and small groups.
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proletariat
People who own only their labor power,which they sell to the bourgeoisie to earn a living.
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social dysfunction
The undesirable consequences of an instituation or activity for the social system.
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social facts
Patterned ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling beyond the individual.
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social structure
The stable, organized patterns of social relationships and social institutions that exist within a particular group or society.
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society
A large social grouping of people who occupy and interact together in the same geographic area; are organized by and subject to a common political authority and dominant cultural expectations; and whose members share a sense of identity, loyalty, and purpose.
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sociological perspective
The ability to see the general in the particular.
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sociology
The systematic study of human society and social interaction.
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symbolic-interaction perspective
A view of society as the ongoing product of the everyday interactions and shared meanings of people and groups.
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theoretical perspective
A basic overall image of paradigm used to organize a way of understanding society.
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theory
A set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to explain, describe, and occasionally predict how two or more social phenomena are related.
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urbanization
The process by which an increasing proportion of a society's population lives in cities instead of rural areas.
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Auguste Comte
Coined the term sociology and believed that the application of the scientific method to the study of industrial society would lead to its improvement.
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C. Wright Mills
Identified the term sociological imagination to descrive the link between an individual's experiences and the society in which the individual lives.
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Charles Horton Cooley
Symbolic-interactionist who identified the concept of looking glass self, in which one's sense of self is based on the imagined reactions of others.
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Emile Drkheim
Conducted well-kn own studies on social facts using suicide pattern statistics.
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Erving Goffman
Symbolic-interactionist who used dramaturgical analysis to explain social roles.
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George Herbert Mead
Symbolic-interactionist who explored the social influences on the devellopment of a sense of self.
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Karl Marx
Founded the conflict perspective by dividing society into the bourgeoisie and proletariat.
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Robert Merton
Functionalist who discerned between manifest and latent functions.
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