Sociology Exam 1: Ch. 1-5 – Questions &
answers
sociology - -scientific study of social behavior and human groups
ex: social life, community, society
-sociological imagination - -C. Wright Mills
an awareness of the relationship between an individual and wider society
-Auguste Comet - -investigation of behavior
coined term "sociology"
-Emile Durkheim - -behavior must be understood within larger social
context
Anomie
-Anomie - -loss of direction felt in society when social control of individual
behavior becomes ineffective
ex: Purge
-Max Weber - -Verstehen and Ideal type
-Verstehen - -empathy
-Ideal Type - -Construct perfection
-Karl Marx - -The Communist Manifesto
-The Communist Manifesto - -working class should overthrow existing
system
-Double conciousness - -division of individual's identity into 2 or more social
realities
-Charles Horton Cooley - -used sociological perspective to examine face-to-
face groups
mirror = eyes of society
-Pierre Bourdieu - -Cultural capitol and social capitol
-Cultural capitol - -non-ecomomic goods reflected in knowledge of language
and arts
-Social capitol - -collective benefit of social network
ex: friends
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