SOC 105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Class, Postmodern Feminism, W. E. B. Du Bois
22 Dec 2016
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Microsociology: study of everyday behavior during face to face interaction. August comte: coined term sociology / wanted secular social physics . Social facts: aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals (ex: state of economy/ influence of religion) Social constraint: the conditioning influence on our behavior of the groups & societies of which we are members. Anomie: feeling of aimlessness/despair provoked by modern social life (situation in which social norms lose their hold over an individual behavior. Organic solidarity: social cohesion that results from the various parts of a society functioning as an integrated whole. Division of labor: the specialization of work tasks by means of which different occupations are combined w/in a production system. & outlook shaped by relationship to means of production. Harriet martineau: focused on neglected institutions - marriage, children, home life, race relations. Manifest functions: those known to & intended by the participants in a social activity.
