SOCL 2001 : SOCL 2001 Exam 1
Document Summary
Michael brown shooting and the following protests/riots in ferguson, mo. Sociological perspectives on: katrina/earthquake (race, gender, fear of crime, social network, effect on poverty, social order, and comparative perspectives) Macro- and micro- sociology: social institutions vs. interactions. Sociology and common sense (marriage and divorce, capital punishment and murder rates, race and suicide. Economics (money/other resources, market exchange), anthropology (family comparative, functionalism/exchange), political science (social order, conflict), Psychology (social psychology, symbolic interactionism), social work (basic vs. applied sciences) Comte (father of sociology): social physics, law of human progress (theological. Spencer: theory of social evolution (simple->complex), survival of the fittest. British, believed in social evolution, evolved to adjust the environment, means the fittest social system survives. Ideas are still alive using different data, founders of sociology, all speak of sociology from different angles. Karl marx: exploitation (surplus value), monopoly, and conflict means of production-> bourgeoisie vs. proletariat (how about middle class?)
