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Warm Up

Warm Up. Please open your textbooks to pg. 9 & complete the “Reading to Discover” questions in your notebook. Familiarize yourself with the key terms from this particular section. Please put your signed Parent/Guardian Contract Letter on your desk & be prepared to pass it to the front.

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up • Please open your textbooks to pg. 9 & complete the “Reading to Discover” questions in your notebook. • Familiarize yourself with the key terms from this particular section. • Please put your signed Parent/Guardian Contract Letter on your desk & be prepared to pass it to the front.

  2. Chapter One Examining Social Life

  3. How does sociology compare/contrast with other social sciences?

  4. Anthropology • The comparative study of past & present cultures • leans to past/uncivilized instead of present/advanced

  5. Psychology • Behavior & thinking of organisms • Individual behavior over group behavior • Social Psychology: study of how social environments affect individual’s behavior/personality.

  6. Economics • The study of how people make efforts to satisfy needs and wants • Leans toward impersonal data

  7. Political Science • Examination of the organization & operation of governments • Sociology leans toward effects of governments on people.

  8. History • The study of past events • Studies the past overall as opposed to the past’s effect on people

  9. The Founders of Sociology “We were making the future, he said, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!” - H.G. Wells

  10. Auguste Conte • Founder of sociology • (coined the term) • Applied methods of physical science towards the study of social life

  11. Herbert Spencer • Applied teachings of Charles Darwin to society • Social Darwinism – “survival of the fittest” amongst societies over time.

  12. Karl Marx • Believed that society’s structure was directly defined by the economy • Bourgeoisie - capitalists • Proletariat - workers • Believed that class inequalities would lead to inevitable conflict

  13. Emile Dirkheim • Conclusions about society should be drawn strictly from observable data/statistical analysis • Believed that individual people were the result of complex social forces

  14. Max Weber • Understand individuals by putting them into groups • Verstehen– put oneself in the shoes of another • Ideal Type – the combination of society’s ideal characteristics

  15. CLASSWORK: Chapter 1 • Page 8 #2-5 • Page 17 #3-4 • Page 20 #1-10 Identifying People & Ideas • Page 20 #1-5 Understanding Main Ideas • Page 20 #1-5 Thinking Critically

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