Chapter 1-8
Chapter 1
Sociology the study of human society
Groups of sociology sports religion music medicine sociologists Social Structure – patterns of social behavior
Martial age
Food
Reality shows
Cultural Myths
Social Institutions are groups of
Social positions
Social relations
Social roles
Social identity
Social imagination wants you to look at structural ties that keep you aligned with a group looks at the historical past
Sociologists generally look common categories
Age
Gender
Ethnicity/race
Economics
Social Physics is a play on the word Social Structure
Positivism
how people move thru periods of life they can’t explain
Volcano erupting in Hawaii because Pele upset. Must make Pele happy to stop volcano.
Names in Sociology
Berger - seeing the general in the particular (making the familiar strange)
Mills - Sociological Imagination
Comte (1837)
Social physics / positivism
Theological
Metaphysical
Human equality to what is going on in their life
Reason crime rate is bad is because people are just bad
Scientific process to what is going on in their life
All issues are happening because of a scientific process
Harriet Martineau
Female in a man’s world
Translated Comte’ into English
Early Feminist and very dominate
Research methods
Women’s issues
Father disowned her @ early age of 21
Karl Marx
Materialism
Class conflict
Philosopher
Bi-polar
Wrote about economic institutions of capitalism
Market will control itself
Excessive focus on materialism how the focus of stuff effects the relationship; managing works
The essence of conflicts impacts institutions
Max Weber
1st sociologist
Suffered from severe depression
How religion institution drive the economic structure
Verstehen – research until you have understand what is going on
Emile Durkheim
Statistics
Social facts
Number guy – census data collector
Positivistic sociology
Suicide
Anomie
Normlessness – loss of normal
Not dependable
George Simmel
Sociology the study of human society
Groups of sociology sports religion music medicine sociologists Social Structure – patterns of social behavior
Martial age
Food
Reality shows
Cultural Myths
Social Institutions are groups of
Social positions
Social relations
Social roles
Social identity
Social imagination wants you to look at structural ties that keep you aligned with a group looks at the historical past
Sociologists generally look common categories
Age
Gender
Ethnicity/race
Economics
Social Physics is a play on the word Social Structure
Positivism
how people move thru periods of life they can’t explain
Volcano erupting in Hawaii because Pele upset. Must make Pele happy to stop volcano.
Names in Sociology
Berger - seeing the general in the particular (making the familiar strange)
Mills - Sociological Imagination
Comte (1837)
Social physics / positivism
Theological
Metaphysical
Human equality to what is going on in their life
Reason crime rate is bad is because people are just bad
Scientific process to what is going on in their life
All issues are happening because of a scientific process
Harriet Martineau
Female in a man’s world
Translated Comte’ into English
Early Feminist and very dominate
Research methods
Women’s issues
Father disowned her @ early age of 21
Karl Marx
Materialism
Class conflict
Philosopher
Bi-polar
Wrote about economic institutions of capitalism
Market will control itself
Excessive focus on materialism how the focus of stuff effects the relationship; managing works
The essence of conflicts impacts institutions
Max Weber
1st sociologist
Suffered from severe depression
How religion institution drive the economic structure
Verstehen – research until you have understand what is going on
Emile Durkheim
Statistics
Social facts
Number guy – census data collector
Positivistic sociology
Suicide
Anomie
Normlessness – loss of normal
Not dependable
George Simmel