SOCL 2001 : SOCL EXAM 1
Document Summary
An lsu football player shown in a bar fight on cell phone video (it, economy, law-enforcement, education, drinking, etc. ) Sociological perspectives on: katrina/earthquake (race, gender, fear of crime, social network, effect on poverty, social order, and comparative perspectives) Sociology and common sense (marriage and divorce, capital punishment and murder rates, race and suicide, etc. ) Economics (money/other resources, market, exchange), anthropology (family, comparative, functionalism/exchange), political science (social order, conflict), psychology (social psychology, symbolic interactionism), *comte (father of sociology): social physics, law of human progress (theological ->metaphysical->scientific), social statics/dynamics. *spencer: theory of social evolution (simple->complex), "survival of the fittest. " Means of production -> bourgeoisie vs. proletariat (how about middle class?) Revolution by class consciousness, false consciousness of middle class people. Four types of suicides (egoistic, altruistic, anomie, and fatalist) *max weber: social action, motivation/beliefs as driving social forces. The protestant ethic and the sprit of capitalism. *chicago school: g. h. mead, c. h. cooley (symbolic interactionism) and.
