Basics Chapter One -Sociological perspective -stresses the social contexts in which people live -Society: a group of people who share a culture and a territory -Social Location: the corners in life that people occupy because of where they are located in a society Origins -Emerged middle 1800s -Industrial Revolution -ties to land and culture?tradition and social life?were broken -Comte (founder of sociology) -positivism: applying the scientific method to the social world -?Sociology?: the study of society -Spencer -second founder of sociology -thought societies evolve from lower to higher forms -Darwinian (?survival of the fittest?) -social Darwinism -Marx -class conflict -bourgeoisie vs. proletariat -solution is a classless society -Durkheim -got sociology recognized as an academic discipline -goal: to show how social forces affect people?s behavior -suicide ...