SOCL 2001 : Exam 1 Notes
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Micro-sociology: everyday interactions, small scale, patterns in individual social world. Macro-sociology: institutions, organizations, policies (family, marriage, religion, education, patterns that characterize a society as a whole, large scale. Theory: a set of statements that seek to explain problems, actions, or behavior , helps us see relationships, produce knowledge, guide research, and help us analyze our findings, always changing. Auguste comte (1798-1857: father of sociology , thought that a scientific study of society was needed, hoped research would lead to more rational human interactions, observations are key, social statistics, order, stability, and social organization, social dynamics, social change. Harriet martineau (1802-1876: translated comte"s work, feminist and opponent of slavery, wrote the first book on research methods (1838) Herbert spencer (1820-1903: social darwinism, survival of the fittest, structural-functionalist view of society. Karl marx (1818-1883: capitalism, ownership of means of production = private hands = power, class conflict, divided into have"s and have-not"s , alienation, feeling of separation form one"s group of society.
