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Sociology
The scientific study of society and human behavior
Sociological Perspective
Opens a window into unfamiliar worlds and offers a fresh look at familiar ones
Sociological Mindfulness

aka?
("sociological imagination") Opening the mind to new and different ideas
Psychoscerlosis
Mental condition that prevents deprives people the ability to accept new ideas
Global Purpose for Sociology
Changes that incorporate us into a global network
Auguste Comte

Why sociology founded?
Founder of sociology

french revolution
Herbert Spencer

social reform?
Second founder, coined phrase "survival of the fittest"

no social reform
Karl Marx

reform?
Said the root of human misery is social class

should reform
Emile Durkheim

(social integration)
Human behavior studied by group interaction- suicide rates higher among people with weak community ties
*degree to which people are tied to their social group
Max Weber

(versenth)
Religion is the central force in social change

"grasp by insight"- best interpreter of human behavior is someone who has been there
Jane Adams
Founded the Hull House- one of first women studying sociology
wanted social reform
WEB Dubois
First black man to get pHD from Harvard

founded NAACP
Harriet Martineau
Hid writings under sewing when she had visitors, mainly known for converting Comte's ideas from german to english
C. Wright Mills
Encouraged social reform (encouraged people to get back to it)
Culture
Patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving- also includes material objects passed down from previous generations