SOCIOLOGY CHAPTER 1

SOCIOLOGY

DEF: patterned interaction of people in social relationships

ETHNOCENTRISM

CONFORMITY

SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION C. Wright Mills Ability to see relationships between events and society

3 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

1-FUNCTIONALISM CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY EACH PART OF

SOCIETY EX: FAMILY CHANGE IN ONE PART OF SOCIETY LEADS TO

CHANGES IN ALL PARTS OF SOCIETY RETURN TO STABILITY AFTER GREAT CHANGE

3 TYPES OF FUNCTIONS: MANIFEST LATENT DYSFUNCTION

2ND PERSPECTIVE

CONFLICT THEORY

CONFLICT, COMPETITION AND CHANGE

MARX—POWER WEALTH, PRESTIGE, PRIVILEGE=POWER “SOCIAL LIVING IS A CONTEST”

3RD PERSPECTIVE

SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISMCOOLEY AND MEADESYMBOL-STANDS FOR SOMETHING

ELSE AND HAS AGREED MEANINGINTERACTIONS BASED ON MUTUALLY

UNDERSTOOD SYMBOLSEX: FLAG, CROSS

HERBERT BLUMER—coined term “symbolic interaction”

3 step process 1-learn meaning of a symbol by watching how

others react to it

2-base behavior on meaning of symbol

3-use meaning of symbols to imagine how others respond

Guides our actions

IRVING GOFFMAN—DRAMATURGICAL APPROACH

IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT

FRONT STAGE

BACK STAGE

ARE WE PHONIES??