This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Significant Events
Significant Events |
Industrial Revolution
Social Revolutions (esp. French)
Success of Natural Sciences |
Auguste Comte
(1798-1857) |
(know as)Father of Sociology
Scientific method can be used to study society
Societies pass through three stages of development (Africa, Asha, Europe, France)
Not a nice guy BIG ego |
Herbert Spencer
(1820-1903) |
Social Darwinism
Survival of the Fittest
Societies evolve like species
Legitimated sociology in Europe
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Emile Durkheim
(1858-1917) |
Studied suicide (also the first true sociological study)
Interested in held society together
-mechanical and organic solidarity |
Max Weber
(1864-1920) |
Society is becoming more rational
Ideas, not just material relations, influence the course of history
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Karl Marx
(1818-1883) |
Bourgeoisie vs. Proletariat
False Consciousness |
W.E.B. Dubois
(1868-1963) |
Methodological Innovator
First sociologist to study deviance |
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SI Lecture
Sociological Imagination
1959 (C. Wright Mills) |
How does the average person understand social life?
-our views are limited by the ‘orbits’ of our relations |
To see the larger context of our experience |
we must see how our biography intersects with history |
Personal Trouble |
problem that occurs within the character of an individual or is result of their limited orbits
Small population afflicted, and the induvial can fix the issue |
Public Issue |
A problem that is beyond the control of a single individual because they are social in origin
Individual can’t fix. Afflicts a large population for same~ish reason |
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