The Sociological Perspective

Chapter 1: Sociology, Schaefer, 1995-2012.

Sociology is the systematic study of social behavior and human groups.

Humans:

   C. Wright Mills: "The Sociological Imagination" (from chapter one: The Promise, 1959)(local copy)
(see also, The Sociology of C. Wright Mills, by Dr. Fran Elwell--a PowerPoint presentation)

Sociology vs. Common Sense

Origins of Sociology

Early Sociologists

The Sociological Tradition: Sociological Theory

Assumptions and concerns of the three perspectives

Functionalism:

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)(see also, the Dead Sociologist Index):

Robert Park and Ernst Burgess:

Talcot Parsons 1902-1979: The Social System

Robert Merton 1910--2003:

Reform tradition:

Conflict Theory:

Karl Marx

Karl Marx 1818-1883:

(see also, "The Dead Sociologists' Index" on Marx, and Sociosite on Marx)

W.E.B. DuBois, (see also: DuBois and The Dead Sociologist Index) 1868-1963 (online version of: The Souls of Black Folks, 1903)

C. Wright Mills 1916-1962

Feminism

Pierre Bourdieu: Social Capital/Habitus and Field

Postmodernism

Functionalism and Conflict Theory on Popular Music


Interactionism:

Max Weber

Max Weber 1864-1920:

Symbolic Interactionism

G. H. Mead 1863-1931:

C.H. Cooley 1864-1929:

Howard Becker:

Erving Goffman:

Harold Garfinkel:

Assumptions and concerns of the three perspectives

Functionalist, Conflict Theory, and Interactionist Views of Sports

Basic/Pure, Applied and Clinical Sociology

Research Methodology

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