Question | Answer |
Bourgeoisie | Karl Marx’s term for the class of people who own the means of production in modern society, the capitalists |
Collective Conscience | The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of the same society |
Ferdinand Tonnies is coined for these terms | Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft |
Gemeinschaft (Guh-MINE-shoft) | emotion based or personal and close, such as friend-friend, husband-wife, parent-child |
Gesellschaft (Guh-ZELL-shoft) | goal driven or social relationships such as doctor-Patient, retailer-customer, worker-boss |
Max Weber is coined for these terms | Rational and Nonrational behavior |
Nonrational behavior | behavior done for its own sake |
Proletariat | Karl Marx’s term for the class of people who survive in modern society by selling their labor to the bourgeoisie |
Rational behavior | behavior that is calculating |
Social Facts | according to Durkheim, “Manners of acting, thinking, and feeling external to the individual, which are vested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him” |
Sociology | The scientific study of interactions and relations among human beings |