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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
04/29/2013

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Karl Marx
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Emphasized group identification and associations that influence one’s place in society
Society divided between two classes that clash in pursuit of interests
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Emile Durkheim
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1st professor in France. Behavior must be understood within a larger social context, not just in individualistic terms. Concluded that religion reinforces a group’s solidarity. Social Integration
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Max Weber
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German/believed we must learn the subject meanings people attach to their actions//how they themselves view and explain their behavior//bureaucracy=ideal type
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Talcott Parsons
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Argues that gender role complementarity helps to integrate societ
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Charles Cooley
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LOOKING GLASS SELF: we learn who we are by interacting with others//Our view of ourselves then comes from our impressions of how others perceive us.
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George H. Mead
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Best known for his theory of the self// proposed that as people mature, their selves begin to reflect their concern about reactions from both generalized and significant others.
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Erving Goffman
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IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT: our daily activities involve attempts to convey distinct impressions of who we are
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Sigmund Frued
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stressed the role of inbron drives in channeling human behavior
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Philip Zimbardo
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guy who did mock prison to observe SOCIAL STRUCTURE
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Herber Blumer
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“human beings interpret or define each other’s actions instead of merely reacting to each other’s action.”
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Ferdinand Tonnies
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Gemeinschaft (guh-MINE-shoft): Small community in which people have similar backgrounds and life experiences
Gesellschaft (guh-ZELL-shoft): Large community in which people are strangers and feel little in common with other community residents
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Gerhard Lenski
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Human societies undergo process of change characterized by dominant pattern known as sociocultural evolution
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C. Wright Mills
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• Argued to understand human lives u have to understand the connection between those lives and their historical contexts they exist in
• Argued that individuals feel trapped and cannot overcome their troubles (they are correct in this feeling)
o Because individuals are bounded by the private orbits that they live in//they are limited by their jobs, family, and neighborhood
• Our job to connect the personal and the public
• Quality of mind is THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
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