SOCY 122 Study Guide - Final Guide: Collective Consciousness, Opiate, Anomie

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

All have a set of assumptions that differ from one another: micro level analysis: at least two people, macro level analysis: institutions (i. e. law, educational systems) Karl marx: macro level, conflict, structures of society, conflict theory, base and superstructure, power matters. Instead of consensus we have conflict and struggles: base: mode of production is different, did not like religion, (cid:862)religio(cid:374) is the opiate of (cid:373)asses(cid:863) Max weber: micro level, symbolic interaction, social action: interaction between two or more people, social actors (agents, meaning making, norms, values, beliefs, meaning, *does(cid:374)"t disagree (cid:449)ith stru(cid:272)tural i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e, religion is a big motivating factor for decisions. Chapter 10 255-258 pure types and sociologists end of chapter 11 mass of pure type, we pick 4 pure types listed. Cartesian method: accepting only information you know to be true, breaking down these truths into smaller units, solving the simple problems first, making complete lists of further problems.