SOCL 2001 : Sociology Exam 1 Cheat Sheet
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Sociological imagination: awareness of relationship b/w individual & wider society. Sociology: study of social relationships, institutions, & society. Micro-sociology: analysis concerned w/small-scale units such as individuals in small group interactions (symbolic interactionalism, exchange theory). Macrosociology: analysis concerned w/large scale units such as institutions & social systems (structural functionalism & conflict theory). Auguste comte: father of sociology - society should studied in same manner as world of natural sciences. Law of human progress: comte"s notion that all knowledge passes through three successive theoretical conditions; the theological, the metaphysical, & the scientific. Social statistics: comet"s term for stable structure of society. Social dynamics: comet"s term for social processes & forms of change. Herbert spencer: argued that in the difficult economic struggle for existence, only the "fittest" would survive. Came up with "theory of social evolution" (society= simple to complex). German sociologist that detailed that "motivation & beliefs can change society/be driving social force". "the protestant ethic & the spirit of capitalism .
