The Concepts and Principles of Major Social Sciences

Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences

1. Structural Functionalism is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.

2. dysfunctional functional

3. manifest function latent function - are consequences that are intended and commonly recognized - are consequences that are unintended and often hidden

4. 1. Conformity 5 Situations are Facing an Actor

5. 1. Innovation 5 Situations are Facing an Actor

6. 1. Ritualism 5 Situations are Facing an Actor

7. 1. Retreatism 5 Situations are Facing an Actor

8. 1. Rebellion 5 Situations are Facing an Actor

9. - is a method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development to understand class relations and social conflict, as well as a dialectical perspective to view social transformation. Karl Marx Communist Manifesto

10. Friedrich Engels Father of Marxist theory

11. - is a methodology used that focuses on human societies and their development through history, arguing that history is the result of material conditions rather than ideals.

12. - is a philosophy of science and nature developed in Europe and based on the writings of Marx and Engels.

13. Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and suggests to people's particular utilization of dialect to make images and normal implications, for deduction and correspondence with others.

14. George Herbert Mead Symbolic interaction was conceived by

15. "Humans act toward things based on the meanings they ascribe to those things." 1

16. "The meaning of such things is derived from, or arises out of, the social interaction that one has with others and the society." 2

17. "These meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretative process used by the person in dealing with the things he/she encounters." 3