Sociology

People seek pleasure not pain

•The language, norms, value, beliefs, knowledge, & symbols that make up a way of life.

This altered both the physical and the social landscape of society

•The study of human society, including both Social action and Social organization.

Structure, Social Action, Functional Integration, Power, Culture

•Objects, gestures, sounds, or images that represent something other than themselves.

•The capacity of one social actor, a person, group,to get others to do its will,

Father of Classical Economics

•Compared society to a biological organism, Helped create social Darwinism

•The interdependence among the parts of a social system. How the parts work together.

•values, norms, traditions, outlooks, treated as normal by society as a whole.

view of sociology that emphasizes functional integration and social structure.

•General idea that people share about what is good or bad, desirable or undesirable.

An approach to human behavior as constructed in interaction and interpreted through culture

System of verbal and in many cases written symbols together to convey more complex meanings

Believed in Social Solidarity underlying social forces bind people together

•opposite of dominant culture

Examined life in African American neighborhoods & examined the problems of race

stresses the importance of power and conflict in social relationships & economic inequalities

Reviewed life in the United States, Translated Comte’s work

Is the body of facts, beliefs, and practical skills that people accumulate over time

“If men define situations as real, then they are real in their consequences”

specific guideline for action, rule that says how people should behave in particular situations

Enduring properties of social life that shape or constrain the actions individuals can take

Father of Sociology?

A way of looking at our experiences in light of what is going on in the social world around us.

Father of communism

•Norms that are simply everyday habits, and convention

Refers to patterns of social relationships (marriage, employment, etc….) social positions

people address and respond to others depending on how they interpret the social situation

•Physical objects- Stuff

•Opened a settlement house in Chicago, focused on problems of the urban poor

•Norms people consider vital to their well-being and to their most cherished values.

•Non-physical objects: values, norms, knowledge, systems of government, languages, etc….

What people do, the actions they take, what happens

Verstehen: means empathetic understanding