SOC 473- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
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How have we defined the concept: example from social theory: Marx: relation to the means of production (whether or not a person owns productive assets) Weber: economically determined life chances (ex: university education, home ownership, self improvement, support from parents and parents class: reflexivity: Sociologically: 1. the process of human being reflecting on (thinking about, perceiving, questioning) social meanings: being aware of how one"s own location in social relations affects one"s perceptions and beliefs, theorizing part 2: assembling our concepts, weber: Class: economically determined life chances (property class, income class, social class, commercial class) Power: the capacity to achieve one"s goals despite opposition. Domination: the ability to give orders and have those orders obeyed. Legitimate domination: the ability to have orders followed because people believe it is right. The relationship among these concepts is contingent (contingent: something that varies from one circumstance or situation to another) When the conceptual relationship is contingent, we can study the empirical relationship: marx:
