SOCI 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patricia Hill Collins, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mass Society
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Marx and weber were just analyzing things: didn"t consider themselves founders. 19th century men studying industrialization: marx stresses class conflict, durkheim stresses functionalism, weber stresses cultural value. W. e. b du bois was interested in race. Adams and martineau were interested in gender: hill collins was also interested in gender because of focus on intersectionality. Women novelists started to do some sociological work in their books. In addition to psychoanalysis: edith warton is a famous example. Wasn"t called sociological or psychological analysis but it was. Durkheim wanted to know what makes society stable. Dysfunctionality can be a form of functionality. Suicide is most dysfunctional behavior: social pressures behind it. Based on industrialization: disappearance of individuality. Everyone is being pushed into a mold: people are being processed and put into an iron cage. Comes from weber"s time as a bureaucrat. Industrialization and french revolution: 2 different kinds of violence. French revolution (1789) slogans are important to sociology.
