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The Sociological Perspective

The Sociological Perspective. Peter Berger Seeing the general in the particular Durkheim’s Study of suicide Lack of social integration Eg. Wealthy,unmarried Protestant male. The Sociological Imagination. C. Wright Mills How changes in society effect us individually.

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The Sociological Perspective

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  1. The Sociological Perspective Peter Berger Seeing the general in the particular Durkheim’s Study of suicide Lack of social integration Eg. Wealthy,unmarried Protestant male

  2. The Sociological Imagination • C. Wright Mills • How changes in society effect us individually

  3. How did Sociology get started? • From France, Germany & England • August Comte (France) • Coined the tern “Sociology” • Behavior more complex than natural phenomena • Becomes an academic discipline in U.S. around 1900

  4. How does Sociology look at the world • Theory • How & why specific facts are related • Confirmed, modified, or rejected through research

  5. Theoretical paradigms • Help decide what kinds of questions to ask. • Structural Functionalism • Conflict • Symbolic interaction

  6. Structural Functionalism • Society promotes solidarity and stability • Manifest functions • Recognized or intended consequences • Latent functions • Unrecognized and unintended consequences • Social dysfunction

  7. Conflict Theory • Karl marx • The point of studying society is to produce changes • Social patterns benefit some people while depriving others

  8. Symbolic Interaction • Society operates on the subjective meanings of symbols

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