SOCL 3601 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Turners, Flyting, Albert Bandura
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Structural functionalism- macro level theory of sociology that looks at different points of society and how they function together as a whole. Conflict theory- karl marx found that social change was caused by competition over resources between social classes (macro level) - society exists both over and beyond the individual. Nothing gets done in society unless it is done by individual people and their ideas . Create and manipulate symbols for meaning in society: humans can only use language to coordinate. Behaviorism- popular psychology theory; infer thoughts by behavior- stimulus and response; rewards and punishments: socially acceptable response/stimulus= rewarded, socially unacceptable response/stimulus= punished, we do things to get rewards. B. f. skinner: operant conditioning experimented with pigeons; conditioned them to act in a certain way (taught them to dance) and rewarded when right moves were made; punished them with electric shock when wrong moves were made.