SOC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Network, Dependent And Independent Variables, Social Capital
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Overview ( time sensitive test; consists of 70-75% multiple choice, 5-6 fill-in-the-blanks and 3 essays, 1 being critical ) Auguste comte (french): expressed the importance of (cid:1055)social ph(cid:501)sics(cid:1056) in the 19th century. Social positivism was created to decline religious prevalence within the school system. Job of a sociologist: to develop social morality. Herbert spencer (british): (cid:1055)society evolves from simple -> omple(cid:500)(cid:1056) He developed the concept (cid:1055)double consciousness(cid:1056) which means two behavioral scripts. Jane addams (american): (cid:328)ounded the (cid:1055)hull house(cid:1056), the (cid:328)irst american settlement that attempted to link the ideas of chicago school to the poor through a full-service community service center. He believed that there was a mechanical solidarity and an organic solidarity in which supported previous theories such as pre-industrial societies and industrial societies. Also supported positive sociology, which basically supports the theory that the social world should be described and predicted by observable relationships. Anomie (social solidarity): when we no longer expect life to be predictable.
