CONCEPTS & CREDITS ID THE CONCEPT FAMOUS SOCIOLOGISTS THEORIES EVENTS AND MOVEMENTS
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What are C. Wright Mills and Sociological Imagination?
This sociologist described it as “the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society”
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What is a positive statement?
“Victims of sexual harassment do not always report the crime to police for fear of being shamed by society” – is an example of this kind of a statement.
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Who is August Comte?
He is acknowledged as the Father of Sociology
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What is Feminist Theory?
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cody Stanton, Gloria Steinem, Sojourner Truth, Gloria Steinem are some of the proponents of this theoretical paradigm in social sciences.
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What is Enlightenment?
The French Revolution, followed by this movement, and then the Industrial Revolution gave birth to Sociology
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What are Ritzer and McDonaldization?
Based on a fast food chain’s mode of operations, he introduced this concept as a metaphor for the over-rationalization of society.
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What is social stratification?
Practically every society practices this division of its people into categories and ranks them based on wealth, power and prestige.
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Who is Karl Marx?
His analytical method of ‘historical materialism’ forms the basis for all conflict theories in Sociology.
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What is Symbolic Interactionism?
One of the basic theoretical paradigms in Sociology, it is a micro analysis founded by George Mead and focuses on human interactions in the development of thoughts and behaviors.
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What are baby boomers?
The aging of this group of people born in the post-WWII period (1946-1964) are at the center of the current debates on social security and structural changes in healthcare industry.
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What are Durkheim and Anomie?
He used this concept to describe how weakening bonds between an individual and society result in rising rates of deviance, crime and suicides.
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What is patriarchy?
This political-social system is characterized by historically unequal power distribution between men and women, with men being dominant and women being disadvantaged or oppressed.
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Who is Harriett Martineau?
She wrote her own obituary 20 years before she died
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What is Strain Theory
Merton proposed this typology including ritualists and four other types, to explain deviant behavior
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What is the #MeToo movement?
The faces of this social movement have been recognized as the 2018 Time Person of the Year
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What are Milgram and Obedience to authority?
This Yale psychologist conducted a famous experiment testing this behavior in 1963 in which he used electrical shocks, a learner and a teacher.
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What is a reference group?
This group provides a standard for judging one’s attitudes or behaviors.
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Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This author of “The Souls of Black Folk” was the first African American to get a PhD from Harvard University in 1895.
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What is Social Darwinism?
This theoretical perspective applies the principle of evolution and natural selection to individuals and human societies as well.
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What is the Occupy Movement?
This 2011 US social movement, for the very first time, protested huge inequalities in the economic sphere – against the injustices in Wall Street.
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What are Charles Cooley and the Looking Glass self theory?
He postulated this theory that our sense of self is constructed by our perceptions of how others view us.
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What is ethnography?
This popular sociological research method involves observation of groups and cultures in their natural setting, often with the permission of the group.
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Who is Herbert Spencer?
This British sociologist credited with Social Darwinism distinguished between “industrial” and “military societies”
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What is Postmodern theory?
This set of theories rejects grand historical, structural narratives in favor of individualistic and relativist explanations.
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What is neoliberalism?
This socioeconomic ideology involving free markets and minimal government regulation were spurred by theories like Rostow’s on transitioning from tradition to modernization.






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