SO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Talcott Parsons, Auguste Comte, Social Darwinism
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Sociology: study of social behavior and human groups. Specific function; help maintain individual and society. stability. relationships and the dynamics behind them. Sociological imagination: the ability to look beyond the individual and see functionalist view everything on a macro level: ex) family, economy, educational and political system, macro: large scale how society"s influences on the outcome. The relationship between the: they study society"s values and norms (cid:498)society is a living, breathing organism(cid:499) Parson"s inertia: things that remain at rest, will stay at rest: emile durkheim: first sociologist to bring about using data, talcott parsons: he claims that society is like a bike wheel; society is. Same thing with motion, it will stay how it is. Feels change is unlikely, and even distruptive: auguste comte (coined term) and herbert spencer (said in sociology things will evolve and change, based on darwin) Social darwinism interconnected: robert merton: breaks society into parts.
