SOC 001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Relativism, Ethnocentrism, Social Integration
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The scientific study of interactions and relations among human beings. A sociologist in 1928 who came up with the thomas theorem. If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. Articulated the sociological finding that had escaped many nonsociological observers. If one truly wants to understand why people do things the way they do, one must take into account not only what is really going on in a particular situation but also what people think is going on. He did not think of himself as a sociologist, and indeed, he was contemptuous of the sociologists whom he knew. Born in germany and studied philosophy and law. The people of any society could be divided into two distinct classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Consisted of the workers the people who survived by selling their labor to the bourgeoisie.
