The Influence of Early Sociologists on Modern Sociological Perspectives
Influence of the early sociologist | |
August Comte (1798-1857) -French philosopher -Founder of sociology as a distinct subject -Suggested that social statics hold society together -1 of the first to apply the method of the physical science | Focus in 2 basic areas: social order and social change. Argue that society changes through definite process, which he calls social dynamics. He practice what he call:cerebro hygiene: ignoring the word of other writers in order to keep his mind pure. |
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -English contemporary of Comte -Influenced by the views of Charles Darwin, and evolutionist of 1800’s -Uses Darwin’s theory of evolution | Adoptes a biological model of society. The biological system work together to maintain organism healthy. Spencer view of society became known as: social Darwinism because of its similarity of Darwin’s idea |
Karl Marx (1818-1883) -Prussian -Believe society is influenced by how its economy is organize | Believe that society is divided in 2 classes: Bourgeoisie: means the production Proletariat: means the person that owns nothing |
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -Develop the country’s first university sociology course -Applied the method of science to the study of society -Saw society as a set of interdependent part that maintain the system through time | Was interest in function of religion in maintaining social order. He believed that share beliefs and values worth the view that held society together. He bases on scientific analysis of society. He believed that sociologists should only study features of society that are directly observable. He views this approach in his study in SUICIDE in 1897 |
Max Weber (1864-1920) -Professor of economics at the University of Heidelberg Employ the concept of idea tight in most on his word | Idea tight: description comprised of the essential characteristics of a feature of society A feature of society might be public school or attitudes about work |
Current Perspectives: Theory, explanation of the relationship among particular phenomenal. Sociologists develop theories to guide their work and help interpret their findings
Theoredical Perspectives
-functionalist perspective: based on the ideas of Comte, Spencer and Durkheim. These people view society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce stable social system.
A dysfunctional is the negative consequence on element has for the stability of the social system, which are: crime, or disrupt society
-conflict perspective: focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change. Karl Marx’s conflict theorist are interested in how power in society rxercise control overthose with less power
-interactionst perspective: focuses in how individuals interact with one and other in society. These sociologists are interested in the way in which individuals respond to one another in everyday situation. This theory is applied by Max Weber
Influence of the early sociologist | |
August Comte (1798-1857) -French philosopher -Founder of sociology as a distinct subject -Suggested that social statics hold society together -1 of the first to apply the method of the physical science | Focus in 2 basic areas: social order and social change. Argue that society changes through definite process, which he calls social dynamics. He practice what he call:cerebro hygiene: ignoring the word of other writers in order to keep his mind pure. |
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -English contemporary of Comte -Influenced by the views of Charles Darwin, and evolutionist of 1800’s -Uses Darwin’s theory of evolution | Adoptes a biological model of society. The biological system work together to maintain organism healthy. Spencer view of society became known as: social Darwinism because of its similarity of Darwin’s idea |
Karl Marx (1818-1883) -Prussian -Believe society is influenced by how its economy is organize | Believe that society is divided in 2 classes: Bourgeoisie: means the production Proletariat: means the person that owns nothing |
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -Develop the country’s first university sociology course -Applied the method of science to the study of society -Saw society as a set of interdependent part that maintain the system through time | Was interest in function of religion in maintaining social order. He believed that share beliefs and values worth the view that held society together. He bases on scientific analysis of society. He believed that sociologists should only study features of society that are directly observable. He views this approach in his study in SUICIDE in 1897 |
Max Weber (1864-1920) -Professor of economics at the University of Heidelberg Employ the concept of idea tight in most on his word | Idea tight: description comprised of the essential characteristics of a feature of society A feature of society might be public school or attitudes about work |
Current Perspectives: Theory, explanation of the relationship among particular phenomenal. Sociologists develop theories to guide their work and help interpret their findings
Theoredical Perspectives
-functionalist perspective: based on the ideas of Comte, Spencer and Durkheim. These people view society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce stable social system.
A dysfunctional is the negative consequence on element has for the stability of the social system, which are: crime, or disrupt society
-conflict perspective: focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change. Karl Marx’s conflict theorist are interested in how power in society rxercise control overthose with less power
-interactionst perspective: focuses in how individuals interact with one and other in society. These sociologists are interested in the way in which individuals respond to one another in everyday situation. This theory is applied by Max Weber