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| Study of human behaviors in a group setting. |
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| How people interact with and influence each other. |
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| The relationship between the individual and the big environment. Fosters critical thinking and open-mindedness. |
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| An idea or concept about a certain situation. A statement that explains why certain phenomena happens. |
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| Keyword: "Networking." How we are all interconnected, we can only function when we help one another. |
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| The opposite of functionalism. When people refuse to help one another, the result is chaos and dysfunction. e.g. Katrina aftermath. |
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| A functionalist state where our goals are clear and conscious. |
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| A functionalist state where goals may have underlying purposes or a hidden agenda. |
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| Eighteenth century French sociologist and economist. Developed the Functionalist Theory. |
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| Keywords: "Struggle" and "Tension." One group has all the power and wealth, and the other group doesn't. Class struggle and the Civil Rights Movement are examples of Conflict Theory. |
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| Philosopher who developed Conflict Theory using terms "Bourgeoisie" (Owner) and "Proletariat" (worker) to describe the conflict between classes. |
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| African American activist who earned his doctorate in political science from Harvard in the 1930s. He determined that blacks will never have power until they have political power. Civil rights pioneer; conflict theorist. |
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| Keywords: "Influence" and "Interaction." How we influence each other by interacting with each other, through both verbal and non-verbal communication. |
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