Sociology Ch 1 Jeopardy

Social Sciences

Anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology are all appropriately classified as

Jane Addams

Because of her outstanding contributions to social reform, as demonstrated in her work as co-founder of Hull-House, ________ was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

science.

Biology is most appropriately classified as a natural _______.

Social Facts

Durkheim referred to patterns of behavior that characterize a social group as

structure

Functionalists refer to how parts of a society fit together to form a whole as ________.

Social Darwinism

Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and "less fit" would die, thus improving society, in a master plan that he called "survival of the fittest."

Economics, Religion

Karl Marx believed that ________ was the central force for social change, while Max Weber believed that ________ was the force most responsible for social change.

class conflict

Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is

Protestant Ethic

Max Weber referred to the self-denying approach to life characterized by people living frugal lives and saving their money as the

What is to grasp by insight, to understand

Max Weber used the term Verstehen to mean

Harriet Martineau

More than twenty years prior to the birth of Durkheim and Weber, Society in America, an analysis of American social customs, was published by sociologist ________.

Symbolic Interactionism

Sociologists who analyze how social life depends on the ways that people define themselves and others are most likely ________.

University of Kansas

Sociology first took root as an academic discipline at _______ in 1890

The Sociological Perspective

The concept that describes opening a window into unfamiliar worlds that allows us to understand human behavior by placing it within its broader social context is called

Social Location

The corners of life that people occupy such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race are referred to as

W.E.B. Du Bois

The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, who spent his lifetime studying race relations in America and was one of the founders of the NAACP, was ________

Auguste Comte

The first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life was

replication

The scientific method requires ________, repeating a study in order to compare the new research results with the original findings.

Karl Marx

The social thinker of the 19th century who predicted that there would be a classless society once the working class united and began a revolution was

Society

The sociological perspective emphasizes how the social context influences people's lives, particularly how people are influenced by

C. Wright Mills

The sociologist responsible for suggesting the connection between history and biography to explain the sociological imagination was

Herbert Spencer

The theorist who is sometimes referred to as "the second founder of sociology" was

Bourgeoisies and Proletartiats

The titles Karl Marx used to describe the two classes in society were the ________ and the ________.

True

True or False? Emile Durkheim identified the degree of social integration as the primary variable to explain different rates of suicide within different European nations.

the Scientific Method

the use of objective and systematic observation to test theories, one that is often employed by sociologists