Social Construction of Reality:
Meaning- What you know to be real is real because you were taught to believe it.
1. Social Psychology
2. Symbolist Interactionism
Scientific Methods:
1. Observation
2. Generalization
3. Interpretation
4. Prediction

Science:
1. Systematic Observation
2. Measurement

Sociological Perspective:
1. Questions can be answered through observation

Natural Science vs. Social Science:
1. Natural Science= Biology/ Hard Science
2. Social Science= Psychology/ Soft Science

Theory:
1. A set of ideas used to explain cause and effect.

Reactivity or the Hawthorn Effect:
1. If you know someone is watching you, you will always act differently.
Sociological Imagination: By C. Wright Mills
1. We as researchers need to use our imagination to come up with creative ways to study human behavior.

Institution:
1. An excepted way of doing things

5 Major Social Institutions:
1. Family
2. Religion
3. Healthcare
4. Economics
5. Education

Founders of Sociology:
1. August Comte- Positive thinker
- Comedern Sociology
- Social Force
- Social Statics- The force of cooperation and cohesion (Togetherness)
- Social Dynamics- The forces of conflict and change
Karl Marx: - Negative thinker father of communism
Communism- There is no rich and no poor everyone is equal
1. 1800’s Germany
2. Industrial Revolution
3. Father of Communism
4. Wrote the communist manifesto along with Frederick Engles
5. Father of conflict theory
- Rich get richer at the expense of the poor.
A. Bourgeoisies- Rich factory owners
B. Proletarian- Poor Workers

Max Weber (v)
1. Conflict Theory
2. Alienation- We become reduced to a number
3. Rationalization- We no longer hiring family we are now hiring the best person for the job.

Emile Durkheim: - Very positive thinker
1. Functionalist theory
2. Studies what is the glue that holds