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Ch.1 Sec 7,8,9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where and when did sociology start in America? | University of Kansas 1890 |
| Came from a wealthy family, worked for social justice, co-founded the Hull House, Only sociologists to win the Nobel peace prize (1931) | Jane Addams |
| First African American to earn a P.H.D. from Harvard, focussed studies on racism, co-founded the NAACP, Wrote the Philadelphia Negro, wrote the Souls of Black Folks, Moved to ghonna because he was fed up with government | W.E.B. DU Bois |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Studied social theory (to analyze), very influential | Talcott Parsons |
| Studied social reform, studied the power elite, sparked social activism in the 1950s and 1960s | C. Wright Mills |
| Who is the power elite | Top leaders of business, politics, and the military |
| What are the three theories | Symbolic Interactionism, Functional Analysis, Conflict theory |
| Founded by Charles Horton Cooley, William Thomas, and George Herbert Mead, has symbols which attaches meaning to everything, develop their views of the world, communicate with one another. | Symbolic Interactionism |
| Society made up of parts all working together, Example: human body, car, made by Robert Merton, functions which are beneficial consequences of people interactions (manifest, latent), Latent dysfunction can occur as well EX:$10,000 bonus for having a baby. | Functional Analysis |
| Founded by Karl Marx, came up with class struggle, exists in all areas, EX: family, work, relationships | Conflict Theory |
| Large scale patterns, studied by functionalists and conflict theories. | Macrosociology |
| Small scale patterns, studied by symbolic inter-actionalists | Microsociology |
| Do research to improve society (1800s-1920s) Use research to make discoveries (1920s-WWII) Apply research and bring about social change (WWII-Present) | Reform VS Research and 3 periods of study |