SOCL 2001 Chapter : CHAP1
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Sociology: systematic study of social interaction at a variety of levels. Ability to see the connection between individual lives and larger social influences (people down south get married younger) Macro perspective (large scale influences such as your school) vs. micro. Study of human behavior in contexts of face-to-face interaction (family) Study of large scale groups, organizations, or social systems (region of the country you grew up in) Divorce= people might consider it to be socially acceptable, macro= financial problems. Unemployment= macro: economy. micro: laziness, not doing your work, tardiness. Theory: statements that explains why a phenomenon occurs, offers solutions, based on experiments/data. Emile durkheim= social facts, social solidarity, and division of labor. Karl marx= capitalism (capitalists, petite bourgeoisie, proletariat), class conflict, alienation (an assembly worker on a factory line cant see the finished product). Capitalists are the haves; proletariats are the have not"s. Max weber= verstehen, value-free sociology (separating personal beliefs from scientific research)
