INTRO TO FEMINISM

• Logos: Study of Society
• Socius: companionship
• Sociology is an academic discipline that studies human society.
• Symbolic Interactionism: The idea that social life is made up of symbols, which are used to communicate meaning between individuals.
• Functionalist Theory: A theory that focuses on understanding society as a whole by looking at its various parts or functions.
• Sociology: scientific study of society and human behavior
• Macro-sociology: study of society as a whole
• micro-sociology: study of small group of behavior
• social imagination: a distinction between personal troubles and public issues.
• What are the characteristics of social imagination?

  collectivity, totality, outside forces
• Sociological Inquiry: A systematic analysis of the motivations and behavior of individuals w/in groups, the study of social groups as a whole and such social institutions.
• What are the three steps of sociological inquiry?

  Defining the problem, gathering data, analyzing the data
• Independent variable: affects the dependent variable
• dependent variable: the variable that you will measure
• intervening variable: the variable that you cannot manipulate
• What are the three distinct stages used to sort human efforts to comprehend society?

  theological, metaphysical, scientific
• What leads to development of sociology?: Social upheaval in Europe, Development of imperialism, The success of the Natural sciences
• Auguste Comte: Positivism
• Herbert Spencer: Social Darwinism
• Law of Dynamics: social change
• Law of Statics: social order
• Auguste Comte: He was the first to recognize that the path to understanding the world and society was based on science.
• Auguste Comte: Father of Sociology
• Auguste Comte: He believed that society should be understood and studied as it was, rather than what it ought to be.
• Herbert Spencer: "the survival Fittest" referring to societies, not living organism, known as social Darwinist
• According to Spencer, the major focus of sociology should be social evolution rather than the suggestion and implementation of strategies for social improvement?

  True
• Karl Marx: Class Conflict
• Emile Durkheim: Social Integration
• According to Karl Marx, is human misery lay in the exploitation of the proletariat or the propertyless working class, by the capitalist class which owns the means?

  True
• Emile Durkheim: introduced the concept of anonymity
• Anonymity: a feeling not belonging (out of place) or having lost a sense of direction or purpose in life. 
• Harriet Martineau: mother of sociology
• Harriet Martineau: A feminist and early advocate of women's liberation
• George Herbert Mead : developed symbolic interactionism
• Talcott Parsons: formalized the theory of structural functionalism
• J. Charles Horton Cooley: symbolic interactionism socio psychological approach to the understanding of society
• In what year did UP, Ateneo, and other SU organized the Philippine Sociological Society?

  1952
• In what year did the institute of Phil. Culture was founded at Ateneo by Fr. Frank Lynch, S.J.

  1960
• In what year did the community Development Research Council was created, Mary Hollnsteiner, Prospero Covar, Agaton Pal, Fr. Francis Madigan, S.J. were the first who availed of the grant?

  1957
• In what year did UP first to offer a major in sociology, first Ph.D. was in Xavier University?

  1972