SY101 Study Guide - Final Guide: White-Collar Crime, Scientific Revolution, Differential Association
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Auguste comte (1798-1857) is known as the father of sociology. Coined the term (cid:858) o(cid:272)iolog(cid:455)(cid:859) i(cid:374) the (cid:1005)9(cid:1007)(cid:1004)s. A new scientific way of looking at the world. Major goal of sociologist was to analyze society scientifically. With a minor goal of improving society. Insistence that human society could be studied scientifically. Made contributions to sociology and the sociology of religion. Focused on the industrial revolution: tried to explain what it was about. Focused on division of labour as well. Refers to the idea that as society grow an developed process of occupational differentiation. Occupations get more differentiated as people divide up the labour. Modern society have more of an occupational differentiation as non-modern societies (pre-industrial) In the pre-industrial era, one person would do it all. Now, there are many different people that contribute to making a single product. Anomie lack of purpose and belonging: lack of social solidarity.
