SOC 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Castrato, Dialectic, Virtuosity

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: Terence James Mc Ginn

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Martin: key thoughts, per slides: music is the production of organized sound, peter martin says that music is historically and inherently a social activity, social order emerges from two contrasting forces: The limitations and constraints which the existing order imposes upon them. *martin"s approach is called: interactionist or constructionisn-reality-- meaning--is created and sustained (constructed) through human social interaction. Music as a distinct activity performed on specific occasions by particular people is a modern, western construction (vs. essentialism: things have an indwelling. What is the weberian approach that we are using. Max weber (1864-1920: max weber was a 19th-century german sociologist and one of the founders of modern sociology. He wrote the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism in. 1905: considered the father of modern sociology (as are marx and durkheim, weber is the first major sociologist to focus on the cultural aspects of society .