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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
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- 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