Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Sociology: Modern Generation

Jousairi Hasbullah:
Auguste Comte 1838, Herbert Spencer 1850, and Karl Marx are founding generation of sociology.
Modern sociologist can not be separated from Emile Durkheim, Marx Weber, Spencer, Talcott Parson and Comte.

Emile Durkheim, French socioligist did a very famous study on suicide 1897. He found that the incidence of suicide among Jews is less than among Catholic and Catholic is less than protestan.

Marx Weber is very famous with his study " the Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitali sm. His findings: Protestan consistently wealthier than Catholic. Why was it? According to Weber, the difference due to the difference in values of the two groups. It seems paralel between Protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism.

Functionalist model ( Durkheim, Comte, Spencer, Talcott Parson) sees society as integrated system with interrelated institutions. These provide rules governing behaviour that maintain a kind  of equlibrium; and a set of common value that bind people together.

Conflict theories sees society as an arena of groups and classes in conflict, each seeking dominance. Symbolic  Interactionism focus on the nuances of every day life.
Jousairi Hasbullah
Bandung 11 July 2018


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