SOCL 4401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Sociological Imagination, Collective Behavior, Social Forces
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The structure-agency debate in sociology: structure agency, what you do to affect your choice, how your choices are limited. Social theorists and the structure-agency debate: the social structure. 1. (theory: structural determinism : liberal theorists generally favor this perspective. 3: human agency ( theory: american individualism ) (conservative theorists generally favor this perspective, liberals generally lead more toward structure, conservative theorists prefer, we have a land of equal opportunity , sees everyone with unlimited opportunity. Bourdieu and the structure-agency debate: social structure ( field ) Slide** the structure-agency debate in sociology (summary)* tq. It focuses on social relationships; how those relationships influence people"s behavior; and how societies, the sum total of those relationships, develop and change . Maslow"s hierarchy of needs: pyramid, needs of self-actualization, needs for esteem, needs of love, affection, and belongingness, safety needs, physiological needs. Thy cyclical process of science: handout*
