SOC 153 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sampling Bias, C. Wright Mills, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: Miami University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 153
• Professor: Steven Nelson

Document Summary

Culture: habits and history of our social group. Mixture: these all typically act and work together. C wright mills: connection between history and biography. History being the roles described for men or women. Biography is how your experiences give your life orientations. Found that the rates vary from place to place but remain constant over time. The less socially integrated you are the more likely to commit suicide. Herbert spencer: social darwinism: fittest members of society survive. Karl marx: class conflict: human history has been fueled by conflict. People work according to their abilities and receive goods and services according to their needs. Max weber: protestant ethic: receiving spiritual comfort makes people begin to live frugally to save and invest to make more money. Symbolic interaction: relies on symbolic meaning the people develop and rely upon. Conflict theory: argues individuals and groups within society have differing amounts of material/non material wealth.