COMPLETE ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
How do sociologists understand people in contrast to the other social
sciences? - ✔✔There's a focus on groups.
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What is the sociological imagination? - ✔✔Quality of mind that allows
us to understand the influence of history and biography on our
interactive processes. We need to imagine the world from other
cultures, peoples and ideas.
What is Beger's view of the first principles of Sociology? - ✔✔The ability
to view the world from two distinct perspectives--seeing the general in
the particular and seeing the strange in the familiar.
,Who is considered the father of sociology? - ✔✔Auguste Comte
Which early founder focused on the constant state of change and
conflict in society? - ✔✔Karl Marx
What were Comte's three states of social development? -
✔✔Theological: driven by religion and family units
Metaphysical stage: rule of law, concerned with nation's state
Positivistic stage: science and one world government
What was Spencer's view? - ✔✔Society is like a living organism. Stood
for social darwinism; survival of the fittest. Thought millionaires were
the bloom on society.
What was Marx's view? - ✔✔Studied hegel. Societies move due to
thesis, antithesis, new thesis etc. Saw conflict as economic. Father of
conflict theory.
What were Weber's three major contributions? - ✔✔Bureaucracy
, Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism
Prussian postal service
Who founded symbolic interactionism? - ✔✔George Herbert Mead
Distinguish conflict and structural functionalist perspectives. -
✔✔Conflict has a focus on exploitation, and is based on the idea that
society all about one group exploiting the other. Structural functionalist
is all about the purposes of what exists in a society.
What are institutions? Name the major ones. - ✔✔A stable cluster of
social structures meeting basic needs of a group of people.
Family
religion
education
government
business