WGU INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY - C273 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS A+ GRADED
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WGU C273
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WGU C273
Auguste Conte - ANS Suggested we apply scientific method to social world, which is known as Positivism
Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body - must function together to function smoothly. (functional analysis)
Herbert Spencer - ANS *Called 2nd founder of soci...
C273 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS A+ GRADED
, Auguste Conte - ANS Suggested we apply scientific method to social world, which is
known as Positivism
Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body - must function together
to function smoothly. (functional analysis)
Herbert Spencer - ANS *Called 2nd founder of sociology
*disagreed with Conte, believed sociologists should not guide social reform
*societies are evolving from lower to higher form
*society's most capable and intelligent members service - the less capable die out
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*fittest members produce a more advanced society "The survival of the fittest" or "Social
Darwinism" (credited to Darwin because he applied it to organisms.
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Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body - must function together
to function smoothly. (functional analysis)
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Karl Marx - ANS *believed the engine of human history is class conflict
*society is made up of 2 classes
*economics is a central force in social change
*Bourgeoisie - capitalist own the means of production, money, land, factories and
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machines
*Proletariat - workers;
*workers will unite and bread their chains of bondage
*introduced Conflict Theory
*did not think of himself as a sociologist
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Bourgeoisie - ANS Capitalists
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they own the means of production - money, land, factories, and machines.
Proletariat - ANS Workers
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Emile Durkheim - ANS *succeeded in getting sociology recognized as a separate
academic discipline
*how social forces affect peoples behavior
*Social Integration
when all parts of society full their part it is in a "normal" state, if they do not fulfill their
function it is in an "abnormal" or pathological state. (functional analysis)
Social Integration - ANS Degree to which people are tied to their social groups.
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