Sociology Ch. 1 by Savannah Julius

Sociology Ch. 1 by Savannah Julius https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1 Unit 1 - Ch. 1: Sociological Perspective en-us 2018-02-02 00:33:52 UTC 2024-06-30 21:59:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Beartoy.png Quizlet 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329138 https://quizlet.com/_4df2y0]]> 2018-02-02 00:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329138 Seeing the Broader Social Context 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329299 sociological perspective
society

social location

Family
Gender
Age
Race
Occupation

]]> 2018-02-02 00:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329299 C. Wright Mills 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329337 sociological imagination; post WWII society; the elite

sociology = connection between history and biography

history: specific characteristics/events
i.e. going to high school

biography: external experiences
i.e. high school experiences]]> 2018-02-02 00:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329337 The Global Context--and the Local 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329466 figuratively small world now

war of 1812]]> 2018-02-02 00:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329466 Natural Sciences 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329568 bio
geo
chem
physics...]]> 2018-02-02 00:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329568 Social Sciences 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329622 understand social world objectively
--> observations]]> 2018-02-02 00:40:07 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329622 anthropology 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329705 goal = understand culture
1. artifacts --> tools
2. structure --> hierarchies
3. ideas/values --> beliefs
4. forms of communication --> language]]> 2018-02-02 00:40:31 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329705 economics 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329746 study single social institution
- choices to determine supply and demand]]> 2018-02-02 00:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329746 political science 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329760 how governments are formed, operate, and their relations with others

*ruling positions*]]> 2018-02-02 00:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329760 psychology 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329770 experimental: emotions, memory, personality, mental illnesses

clinical: therapists, counselors, aptitude tests...]]> 2018-02-02 00:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329770 sociology 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329790 study culture
group structure
communication
social inequality
power structures
adjusting to difficulty

FOCUS IS ON industrialized and post-industrialized society
-- there exists external stress factors]]> 2018-02-02 00:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/227329790 Goals of Science 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228404682 1. explain why something happens
2. make generalizations (why and why all the same people do that)
patterns
3. predict
common sense]]> 2018-02-06 00:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228404682 Risks of Being a Sociologist 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228404868 others disapprove of invasive research; can threaten ideal images]]> 2018-02-06 00:58:04 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228404868 Tradition v. Science 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228404996 (magic v. systematic research)
began mid 1800s
1. industrial revolution

farm to factory

2. political revolution

American and French Revolutions
- movement toward democracy

3. imperialism

colonization

4. success of natural sciences

concurrent w/ rise of scientific method and its application to society

]]> 2018-02-06 00:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228404996 Auguste Comte and Positivism 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405145 APPLIED sci method to the social world

coined positivism and sociology
--> apply social principles to social reform

armchair philosophy]]> 2018-02-06 00:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405145 Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405290 Spencer = 2nd founder of soc?
*believed sociologists should NOT guide social reform*
BASIC/PURE SOCIOLOGIST

social darwinism = survival of the fittest
- idea favored by the wealthy]]> 2018-02-06 01:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405290 Karl Marx and Class Conflict 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405462 *believed people SHOULD guide social reform*
--> revolution

class conflict:
bourgeoisie v. proletariat

- proletariat would unite and throw off their chains

conflict theory

marxism is NOT communism

]]> 2018-02-06 01:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405462 Emile Durkheim and Social Integration 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405667 Durkheim's Goals
1. get sociology recognized as a separate academic discipline
2. show how social forces affect people's behavior
- suicide research
- male, unmarried, protestant
- social factors and social bonds
-----> social integration ]]> 2018-02-06 01:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/228405667 Applying Durkheim 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217038 human behavior must be examined through social forces that affect people's lives
- patterns of behavior
- reflect conditions in society]]> 2018-02-09 21:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217038 Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217168 RELIGION AND THE ORIGIN OF CAPITALISM
*religion is the central force in social change*
--> sign of god's will was financial success
protestants = competitive, independent, and invest $

spirit of capitalism]]> 2018-02-09 21:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217168 Value Free 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217388 (Weber)
don't let values interfere

objectivity
replication

]]> 2018-02-09 21:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217388 Argument over Purpose and Use of Sociology 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217458 Pure/Basic - construct theory

purpose: understand human behavior
use: used for anyone for anything

Applied - implement solutions

purpose: investigate harmful social arrangements
use: should be used to improve society

]]> 2018-02-09 21:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217458 Verhesten 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217809 (Weber)... insight to someone's situation

how author of textbook felt in the homeless shelter

subjective meanings]]> 2018-02-09 21:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217809 Durkheim and Social Facts 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217914 group's patterns of behavior

- use social facts to interpret other social facts

*patterns that hold true for years indicate that all those people studied have made individual decisions, responding to the conditions in society*

]]> 2018-02-09 21:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230217914 How Social Facts and Verstehen Fit Together 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218202 HIGH NUMBER OF BIRTHS ON TUESDAYS... why?
1. advanced technology --> choose hospital
2. advanced technology --> c-sections can be scheduled
3. doctors > midwives
4. medicine [has a goal of making profit]
verstehen --> prefer hospital and prefer a doctor and the doctor prefers to deliver babies on tuesdays]]> 2018-02-09 21:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218202 Origins 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218470 University of Kansas
University of Chicago

Albion Small (founder of sociology department and magazine American Journal of Sociology)

Atlanta University

]]> 2018-02-09 21:58:10 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218470 Sexism at the Time: Women in Early Sociology 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218647 Church, Cooking. Children, Clothing ):

Marion Talbot

associate editor at American Journal of Sociology
view: sociology = path to social reform and improvement of society

Harriet Martineau

her US social custom research was suppressed at first
she translated Comte's ideas into English
Society in America

]]> 2018-02-09 21:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218647 Racism at the Time: W.E.B. Du Bois 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218913 WEB Du Bois

Fisk University
1st black man to receive doctorate at Harvard
taught sociology at Atlanta University
Souls of Black Folk
founded NAACP (with Jane Addams)
- during Harlem Renaissance
Philadelphia Negro - the "white" black man weakens the African American community

]]> 2018-02-09 22:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230218913 Jane Addams: Sociologist and Social Reformer 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230219095 (came from wealth and education, a writer, a social reformer)

Nobel Peace Prize
Chicago
founded NAACP and American Sociological Society
founded Hull House
- helped immigrants "assimilate," the elderly, the ill
- bridge between powerless and powerful
founded American Civil Liberties Union
- 8hr work day
- no child labor

]]> 2018-02-09 22:03:19 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230219095 Talcott Parsons and C. Wright Mills: Theory v. Reform 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230219383 Talcott Parson = pure/basic

C. Wright Mills = applied
- external factors
- social reform (during civil rights movement)

before 1940s: study society and want to reform it
1940s: switch to social theory (How parts of society work together harmoniously)]]> 2018-02-09 22:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/230219383 Continuing Tension: Basic, Applied, Public Sociology 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022167 Basic:

analyze society
pure sociology
audience = fellow sociologists
product = knowledge

Applied

reform society
solve problems
audience = clients
product = change

Public

apply soc for the public good
criticisms
audience = policymakers
product = recommendations

]]> 2018-02-24 20:33:36 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022167 Symbolic Interactionism 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022427 symbols that people use to establish meaning

Change meaning of symbols affects expectations

People:
George Herbert Mead
Charles Horton Cooley

]]> 2018-02-24 20:36:55 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022427 Symbols in Everyday Life 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022532

analyze how social life depends on the ways we define people

face to face interaction

how people make sense of their place in life

]]> 2018-02-24 20:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022532 Applying Symbolic Interaction 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022598 Marriage

duty/obligation --> personality --> affection

Divorce

failure --> new beginnings

Parenthood

responsibility for children has increased (not just until they're 18!)

Love

cannot be the main reason for marriage

]]> 2018-02-24 20:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022598 Functional Analysis 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022721 Functionalism; Structural Functionalism

People:
Auguste Comte
Herbert Spencer
Emile Durkheim
*Robert Merton*

life is composed of interrelated parts

]]> 2018-02-24 20:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022721 Robert Merton 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022821 functions and dysfunctions
manifest and latent]]> 2018-02-24 20:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022821 Applying Functional Analysis 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022858 Industrialization and urbanization has undermined the traditional factors of a family that revolved around farming
- marriage is no longer an "economic unit"]]> 2018-02-24 20:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022858 Conflict Theory 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022928 KARL MARX
society is composed of groups competing for scarce resources

- political conflict]]> 2018-02-24 20:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022928 Karl Marx 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022952 studies the industrial revolution

class conflict is key to human history
bourgeoisie (capitalists) v. proletariat (workers... who will rebel)

capitalism
- suffering and exploitation of workers occurring during industrial rev

]]> 2018-02-24 20:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235022952 Conflict Theory Today 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023065 Happens on smaller scale; everyday life

teen v. teacher

Lewis Coser - conflict more likely to happen in close relationships

]]> 2018-02-24 20:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023065 Feminists and Conflict Theory 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023144 conflict between men and women

women's focus: historical, contemporary, and global inequalities]]> 2018-02-24 20:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023144 Apply Conflict Theory 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023262 refusal of marriage on the rise during industrialization because women did not have to depend on men as much anymore]]> 2018-02-24 20:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023262 Levels of Analysis 8juliuss https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023300 micro level
- Wall street and politics
- functionalists
- conflict theory
macro level
- how members of group interact
- symbolic interactions
- *social interaction
- *nonverbal interaction]]> 2018-02-24 20:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/8juliuss/sociology1/wish/235023300