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Sociology - -The scientific study of social life, social change, and the social causes and
consequences of human behavior.
-Underlying assumptions about sociology - -
1) people are social beings.
2) people spend most of their lives in groups
3) people construct social reality through social interaction
4) conflict and change are inevitable
5) all groups have certain organizing characteristics
-How is human activity organized? - -
1) opportunities
2) disadvantages
3) sense of self
4) relationships with others and the large environment
-The Sociological imagination - -According to C. Wright Mills, it is "the vivid awareness
of the relationship between experience and the wider society."
-Social forces - -anything humans create that influence or pressure people to interact,
behave, respond, or think in certain ways. (Ex. Cell phone)
-Social Facts - -collectively imposed ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving that have
"the remarkable property of existing outside the consciousness of the individual"
(Durkheim) They have a coercive power
-Sociology offers.. - -1) questions to guide analysis
2) a vocabulary for answering those questions
, -The industrial revolution (1760-1870) -
--produced goods
-grew food
-got from one place to another
-extracted resources
-communicated
-interacted
-Mechanization - -the process of replacing human and animal muscle as a source of
power with external sources of power (derived from burning wood, oil, coal, natural
gas.)
-Sociology emerged as an effort to... - -understand the dramatic and immeasurable
effects of the industrial revolution on human life across the globe.
-Auguste Comte - -- 1798-1857
- named sociology
- father of positivism: idea that valid knowledge about the world can only be derived
from using the scientific method
- didn't work because people have free will
-Karl Marx - -- 1818-1883
- preoccupation: conflict as an agent of social change
- focused our attention on great class divides: every historical period gives rise to
specific types of confrontation between an exploiting class and an exploited class
-The class divide centers around the... - -means of production or the resources (land
tools, equipment, factories, transportation, labor) essential to the production and
distribution of goods and services
-Bourgeoisie/capitalist class - -the owners, goal is to profit
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