SOCL 2001 Chapter : Thinking Like A Sociologist Chapter 1
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Unique in some ways, but alike in some ways. How people are similar/ patterned behavior (traffic, banking, sports) Both men and women speak 16,000 words per day. Race, gender, and class and how they think. Be able to engage in social change using knowledge of: A set of statements that explains why a phenomenon occurs. Believed in positivism- applies to the scientific method to the. He believed that sociology should be used to: Disagreed with comte and said sociologist should not guide social evolving: less capable to die. Believed in social darwinism- the belief that societies are. Used the principal of survival of the fittest. As society advances the most capable or fittest survive and. Aspects of social life that are external and measurable. 3 types: material demographics, nonmaterial- communication, social currents- collective behavior. The feeling of cohesiveness and harmony (we are family: mechanical solidarity. Solidarity is based on being similar: organic solidarity.
