Soc Chapter 1
According to Durkheim, which are social facts?
A religious belief, a law, a custom
A hypothesis can be defined as
A testable proposition
The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior (or, the concept that the individual and society are inseparable) is referred to as:
Figuration
Weber's proposal of anti positivism influenced sociological researchers to
Gain a subjective understanding of human cultural norms while examining different social worlds
Qualitative sociology can be defined as
In depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data
Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Karl Marx were all advocates of:
conflict theory
Conflict Theory
a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources
Symbolic Interactionism
a micro-level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions
Define C. Wright Mill's sociological imagination
how individuals understand their own and others' pasts in relation to history and social structure
A paradigm can be defined as:
philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
manifest function
the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern
Sociology is defined as the
the systematic study of society and social interaction
latent functions
the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern
What approach is often used to understand what's defined as deviant within a society?
Constructivism
Who coined the term positivism and is considered the father of sociology?
Auguste Comte
Verstechen is defined by the text as
To understand in a deep way
Structural Functionalism
a conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium
Which theorist claimed that people rise to their proper level in society based solely on their belief in a meritocracy?
Émile Durkheim
