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intro to sociology
sociology 1 st year nursing
Question | Answer |
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definition of sociology | is the study of human life, groups,and societies |
Functionalist theories | Stability, consensus among members,commitment to common goals,harmony,working together |
Functionalist Theoriests | Herbert Spencer- used biological organism as an analogy to explain social stability |
Talcot Parsons | society consists of social units interdepenent of each other |
Emile Durkheim | Social order in: simple society and complex society |
Conflict Theory | conflicting interests among different groups, competition for scarce resources, instability and struggle |
Conflict Theorists | Karl Marx- Class interests- one class in society exploits other class. Therefore the capitalists exploit the working class |
George Simmel | a complex society can tolerate more conflict than smaller society |
Symbolic-Interactinist Theory | Looking at how people interact with one another in a smaller group setting by the use of symbol (language) |
Interactionist Theorists | George Herbert Mead- focused on interaction within one to one situation and also in small groups |
Max Weber | knowing the meaning people attach to their actions |