SOCIOLOGY: Foundation and Concepts

According achieved actions agency of social anomie ascribed aspect assimilation Auguste Comte basic become competition complex Comte concept of social conflict theorists conformity Cooley cooperation customs defined definition deviance deviant behaviour Durkheim dysfunctional economic ethnomethodology example expectations factors feeling folkways formal functionalists functions George Herbert Mead goals Goffman Herbert Spencer human behaviour important in-group individual or group industrial societies institutions interactionist interests Karl Marx laws MacIver Marx mass media Material Culture Max Weber Mead means Merton methods microsociological organisation organism out-group parents patterns person perspective physical political positive science primary group psychology reference group regarded regulations result rules sanctions scientific secondary groups sense share situation social control social group social interaction social norms social relationships social roles social structure socialisation sociologists sociology Spencer stage status study of social subcultures symbolic symbolic interactionism Talcott Parsons term theory traditions