SOC 35101 Chapter Notes -The Sociological Imagination, Macro Analysis, Class Conflict
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1835), the u. s. has been viewed through the lens of sociology as a nation of joiners in which, more so than in europe, people are involved in many groups & activities: max weber (1947; orig. 1867), examined how industrialization had changed the structure of an entire society: emile durkheim, in the division of labor in society (1964; orig. Marx, but today there are schools of marxist thought that take very different theoretical positions: marxism is supposed to generate a program of radical political change, the concept of power is of great importance to marxist sociologists. & class: rational choice theory, max weber thought that all behavior could be divided into 4, behavior in the last category is often called instrumental or categories. Rational action: this has led numerous scholars to ask under what conditions human behavior can be said to constitute rational responses to opportunities.
