SOCL 2001 Lecture : Class Lecture 2
Document Summary
Homework: on line survey, due jan. 31st 10pm. Conflict theory: us versus them , conflict is what drives us. Karl marx: historical materialism, idea that conflict drives social change throughout history, conflict over material goods , resources, humans dominate environment, humans dominate other humans. Max weber: verstehen: understanding in german, emphasis on subjectivity became a foundation of interpretive sociology, interpretive sociology: the study of social meaning. Emile durkheim: considered the founding practitioner of positive sociology, first person to actual practice positive sociology, division of labor helps to determine how social cohesion is (or is not) maintained. Marx, weber, durkheim: founding fathers of sociology. Symbolic interactionism: focuses on how face-to-face interactions create the social world, individuals act based on symbolic meanings attached to objects and people. Microsociology: symbolic interactionism falls under microsociology, local interactional context, face-to-face encounters, data: in-depth interviews, observations. Macrosociology: conflict theory, functionalism, large-scale dynamics, studying whole societies or large parts of them, often use statistical analysis.
