Sociology chapter 1
Capitalism
According to Max Weber, the Protestant ethic was a central factor in the success of
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.
Sociologists have always agreed that the most important goal of sociology is to bring about social change.
False
social facts
The French sociologist Emile Durkheim is most identified with which of the following areas of study?
paradigm
can be defined as philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments conducted to discover evidence to support them.
Karl Marx considered himself a positivist and supported the philosophy of August Comte called positivism.
false
Macro-level refers to sociological analysis of small-scale social patterns, and micro-level refers to sociological analysis of large-scale social patterns.
false
Verstehen (Weber)
is defined by the text as to understand in a deep way.
French philosopher August Comte is widely considered the father of sociology.
true
Karl Marx believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production.
true
Latent functions refer to the unintended consequences of an action(s) that contribute to the stability of the system.
true
Herbert Spencer
The term "survival of the fittest," which is a principle part of the concept of social Darwinism, was coined by
Sociologists who use the functionalist perspective stress how society is a system of interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of the individuals within it.
True
Sociologists call the areas of life that people occupy such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and the laws, morals, and the customs that accompany them social facts.
true
Structural Functionalists
view society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals who make up that society.
a structure
Functionalists refer to how parts of a society fit together to form a whole as
Conflict Theory
Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Karl Marx were all advocates of:
Industrial Revolution
What historical event influenced the founding sociologists to explore patterns within the society and become interested in what holds society together and causes social change?
Karl Marx ; Communism
____ believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production and greatly favored ____.