SOC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ellen Gates Starr, Spurious Relationship, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Professor Hatton

Document Summary

Industrial revolution changed everything about social and economic life. Went from small villages and agrarian society going to work (causing a divide in family and economic world) From working from home industrialized cities: 2. political revolutions american and french revolutions led to social upheaval. Nature of man and hierarchy questioned as well as society. People believed in inalienable rights: 3. imperialism (empire building) . Wanted to be able to rationalize their dominating of culture social darwinism/herbert spencer: herbert spencer argued sociology should be separate from societal issues, societies evolve from barbarians to civilized societies. Only most intelligent survive survival of the fittest: never conducted research or had evidence of this claim. Still used to explain inequality and imperialization: auguste comte /positivism founder of sociology, affected by french revolution, why societies stay together used positivism-apply scientific method to social world, karl marx / types of alienation making all day, 1.