Sociology, Social Imperative, Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills on the sociological imagination (connection between history and biography- meaning of each), Personal troubles vs. Social issues, Generalizations and Stereotypes, Critical thinking, Early history of understanding life and society, Roots of social theorizing (places), Most important historical event that created sociological thought and practice, Focus of early sociology, Importance of the “Age of Reason” & “The Enlightenment Period”, Auguste Comte/Importance to sociology, Positivism, Social statics/dynamics, Harriet Martineau and sociology, Herbert Spencer and sociology- The Organic Analogy- Social Darwinism, Karl Marx and the nature of society and action, Emile Durkheim and Social Order, Social Solidarity/Social integration, Mechanical and Organic Solidarity, Importance of the study on Suicide (findings), Max Weber’s ideas on social thought, The value free approach, Versthen, Ideal types, The rise of American Sociology, Lester Ward, The focus of Pure Sociology vs. Applied Sociology, Jane Adams contributions, Margret Sanger and Feminist Sociological thought, W.E.B Dubois a and social research, Relevance of the University of Chicago, Activist-Reformist Approach, Theory vs. Paradigm, (3) dominant theoretical perspectives, Symbolic Interactionism (major tenets), Microanalysis, the meaning of symbols, defining situations, the looking glass self, Dramaturgy, Labeling, Macroanalysis and Functionalism and Conflict theory, Functionalism, social structure, social equilibrium, manifest and latent functions, dysfunctions, Conflict theory and Karl Marx, Neo-conflict theory, C. Wright Mills and “The Power Elite”, Feminist/Integrated theory.…