Sociology Reviewer Emphasize emotion emphasize

Aguste Comte
& personal ties calculation,efficiency

Self control
-System of positive Polity or treative on sociology, instituting -personal ties decline
the RELIGION OF HUMANITY and people become disenchanted

HERBERT SPENCER
-FAVORED POSTIVISM- A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING
BASED ONSCIENCE

EMILE DURKHEIM -society evolves over time in a similar fashion to

-STUDIED THE TIES THAT BIND SOCIETY biological evolution.

-He coined the term the survival of the fittest and

TOGETHER.
became known for social darwanism
-MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY
How is life treating you?
-TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES ARE UNITED BY
SOCIAL SIMILARITIES Marxs alienated person pov I really dont care (coz im
attached to my work and from other people)
-Organic Solidarity
Durkheims anomic person-im distressed by it (because
-Modern societies are united by interdependence there are no common rules to guide me)
-Anomic rapid social change. Leads to loss of social Webers rational person- let me think about it and ill get
norms back to you later(coz I need to do some calculations)

KARL MARX
-german philosopher, writer and social critic

-struggle bet. Owners and workers

-capitalist owners will oppress ordinary people,

eventually, people become alienated. People lose
control over their lives The sociological Perspective

MAX WEBER -helps us to see general social patterns in the behavior of

particular individuals.

-german scholar who studied wide variety of topics.
-he studied the impact of industrialization on peoples
lives
-support for value free studies and objective research.
-forces us to look beyond the outer appearances of our
social world
-encourages to realize that society guides out thoughts
and deeds to see strange in the familiar

-Rationalization

-trad societies vs. modern societies