SOC 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Capitalism, Auguste Comte

• School: ASU
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

If a symbolic interactionist analyzed the super bowl, s/he would probably focus on: organization of tv broadcasting, competition between the two teams, subjective meaning for each player, game strategy. Sociologists are most inclined to explain behavior in terms of: individual personality characteristics, roles and social structures, the biological differences between people, individual attitudes. According to c. wright mills, the difficulties that john and mary experience in their marriage represent a personal trouble. The fact that 250 out of every 1000 marriages ends in divorce within the first 4 years, however, is: a public issue, a sign of moral collapse, a latent dysfunction of marriage, meaningless. The credit for founding the discipline of sociology is given to: thomas hobbes, emile durkheim, auguste comte, herbert spencer. The idea that the economy provides the foundation on which all other social and political arrangements are built is referred to as: second order economics, economic determinism, capitalism and free enterprise, the dialectic.