Important Concepts

• Affluent worker - Goldthorpe, Lockwood
• Alienation- Hegal, Marx
• Anomie - Durkheim used it suicide and later developed by Merton
• Anticipatory socialization- Merton
• Atomistic family- Zimmerman
• Bureaucracy- Weber explained it as ideal type
• Citizenship - T.H Marshall
• Concentric zone theory- Burgess
• Conurbation- Patrick Geddes
• Conspicuous consumption- Thorstein Veblen
• Cross cousin- Taylor
• Cultural lag - Ogburn
• Cultural reproduction- Bourdieu
• Differential worker- Lockwood
• Deschooling society- Illich
• Dialectical materialism- Hegel and later Marx
• Classificatory and descriptive system- Morgan
• Division of Labour- used by Adam Smith later developed by Durkheim
• Dysfunction and function- Merton
• Emergent properties - Talcott Parsons
• Ethnomethodolgy - Schutz and Harold Garfinkel
• Ethnology - J.S Mill
• Ideal Type- Max Weber
• Little tradition - Robert Redfield
• Internal colonialism- Gramsci,Lenin
• Leisure class- Veblen
• Labeling theory- E Lemart later discussed by Becker
• Marginal Man- Park
• Nuclear Family- Murdock
• Organizational man - Whyte
• Positivism- Auguste Comte
• Folkways - Sumner
• Grand theory- C.W Mills
• Frankfurt school - Adorno
• Oriental despotism- Karl Wittfogel
• Asymmetric society- James S Coleman
• Teknonymy- Taylor
• Relative deprivation- Stouffe in "American soldier" ,later developed by Merton
• Post Industrial society- David Bell
• Pattern variables- Talcott Parsons and Shills
• Reciprocity - Mauss
• Role distance- Goffman
• Social distance- Bogardus
• Sociometry- Moreno
• Sponsored mobility- Turner
• Rationality- Max Weber
• Styles of life - Robert Redfield
• Status inconsistency- Lenski
• Social Darwinism - Charles Darwin
• Sociology- Auguste Comte
• Utilitarianism - Bentham and Mill
• Verstehen -Max Weber
• Sib - Murdock
• Total institution - Erving Goffman
• Social circle- Zenienki
• Hermeneutics - W Dilthey, Later Mannheim Gouldner and Schultz