SOCL 2001 Chapter : Part 2
Document Summary
Max weber: social organization: society is shaped and changed by: Ideas, religious values, ideologies, and charismatic leaders: understand society through analysis of interrelationships between social institutions, protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism, self-deprivation of calvinism supported the rise of capitalism. Mw (cont"d): value-free sociology: value free sociology, separate personal from the scientific, teaching, provide knowledge not personal ideology. Answers: yes, to be more consistent when passing on science/knowledge to future generations. Jane adams: co-founded the hull house, leader in the women"s suffrage movement, nobel peace prize winner, contributed to symbolic interactionism and criminology. Functionalism: overview: founders comte, durkheim, and spencer. Interdependent parts working together: spencer"s organic analogy, society is like vital organs functioning together. Functionalism: society as a social system: society is composed of major institutions, like education, government, and more, have structures, organized units, connected, points where behavior occurs.
