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SOC: Ch 1 Responding
Sociology
| 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 |