SOCI 1301 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Harriet Martineau, The Communist Manifesto, Erving Goffman
29 Apr 2020
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The study of patterns of human behavior within groups of people. It"s important because it shows societies that need to be fixed. It determines whether our society is sick or healthy and solutions: wright mills. Sociological imagination awareness of the relationship between a person"s behavior and experience. For example, being able to see sociology in everyday experiences. Be able to match up the following individuals with their contribution. August comte - coined the term sociology during the french revolution. Karl marx he created the major sociological theory, conflict theory. (social conflict moves everything forward. Herbert spencer supported social darwinism and survival of the fittest. George simmel layes the foundation of urban sociology. He studied society on a micro, not macro, level. If you believe something is real, it will be real in it"s consequences. Erving goffman created dramaturgical analysis and stigma. He states our behavior is a performance and people are just acting.
