Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences

It is a perspective that the world is full of conflict

• Structural-Functionalism

• Marxism

• Symbolic Interactionsim

• Psychoanalysis

It refers to a set of interrelated concepts, definitions and propositions that explain, describes, or predicts events or situations by specifying relations among variables.

• Functionalism

• Stories

• Theory

• Social Science

Emphasizes that human behavior is influenced by definition and meanings.

• Marxism

• Structural-Functionalism

• Psychoanalysis

• Symbolic Interactionism

The Unconscious; It is the person's drive and instincts. It operates on the pleasure principle. "I want it now!!"

• id

• ego

• superego

This theory believes that humans "MUST" be part of a big structure.

• Marxism

• Structural-Functionalism

• Psychoanalysis

• Symbolic interactionism

The founder of Psychoanalysis Theory

• Charles Horton Cooley

• Karl Marx

• Sigmund Freud

• George Herbert Mead

Society is made up of integrated parts

• Structural-Functionalism

• Marxism

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Psychoanalysis

The Mediator; operates on reality principle; "Maybe I can find a compromise."

• id

• ego

• superego

He pioneered the Symbolic Interactionism perspective.

• Robert Merton

• Herbert Blumer

• Sigmund Freud

• George Herbert Mead

The student of Mead; coined the term "Symbolic Interactionism."

• Robert Merton

• Herbert Blumer

• Erving Goffman

• Karl Marx