Approaches to Social Studies

Subjects: gre

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Comte	invented term 'sociology' positivism - likened to a natural science blueprint of society queen of sciences
What is sociology?	Systematic study of society and its structure
Early social thinkers?	Comte Emile Durkheim Karl Marx
Marxism Conflict Theory	society constructed from class most consist of two major class class conflict social change occurs as result
Functionalism 2	How social order maintained society shapes what we do equilibrium maintained social institutions interdependant biological analogy
Socialisation	Family- primary socialisation Education- secondary Social class- provider place in society Collective conscience-consensus
Functionalism	macro view of society as a whole social order passively taken on objective followed scientific research methods
Superstructure	Education, religion, family, mass media, politics, everything not to do with production maintains and legitimises the base
Means of production	factories, land,capital, labour, machinery, scientific knowledge, earlier=peasant labour, land,livestock
Base shapes the superstructure	relations of production bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat means of production, machinery

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