Sociology

Examples of entities within Structural Functionalism include _____

School, church, home and government

A logical system that bases knowledge on empirical evidence

Science

Step 4:

Select Research Design

The resolution to anomie is to create more _____ _____.

Social Groups

The degree to which people are tied to their social group

Social Integration

Relatively stable patterns of social behavior

Social Structure

Interested in how school, church, gov, etc. may help to maintain the privileges of some groups and keep others in subservient positios

Social-Conflict Theory

Sees society as an area of inequality, generating conflict and change

Social-conflict theory

An awareness of the relationship between the individual and the wider society.

Sociological Imagination

Manifest and latent functions, and dysfunction

Structural-Functionalism

________ says society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.

Structural-Functionalism

A study which provides info on how people think and act

Survey Research

Micro-level orientation

Symbolic-Interactionist

Sees society as the product of the everyday interaction of individuals

Symbolic-Interactionist

Marx created the concept of praxis, which means ____ and ____

Theory, action

Weber urged students to use Verstehen (_____) in their intellectual work

Understanding

_______ worked under Max Weber and was the 1st person of color to receive a doctorate from Harvard. He was the founding member of the _____. The U.S. State Department refused to give him a VISA.

W.E.B. DuBois, NAACP

____ disagreed with Marx that economics was the central force of change. He reasoned instead with _____

Weber, religion

Weber was interested in studying _____

What motivates our actions

The breaking down of the controlling influences of society.

Anomie

a state where the expectations of behavior are unclear and the system has broken down

Anomie

_________ coined the term Sociology in 1838 and favored positivism.

August Comte

Social-Conflict Theory looks to who_____ and who _____

Benefits, suffers

_____________ Coined the term "sociological imagination"

C. Wright Mills

Marx led us to believe that ______ always come out on top.

Capitalists

The independent variable causes a change in the dependent variable

Causation

Weber came up with the concept of ____ _____

ideal type

Aspects of sociological imagination include your view as an _____ and beyond personal to _____.

outsider, public

Sociology deals with the influence of social _____ with individual _____ and ______.

relationships, attitudes and behaviors

Emile Durkheim placed emphasis on thorough ____ and determined ____ factors underlie suicide, not just personal ones.

research, social

Positivism is a way of understanding based on _____

science

Weber described ____ as uncovering inconvenient facts

skepticism

Sociology is defined as the study of _____ and _____ groups.

social behavior, human groups

August Comte discovered ____ principles and applied them to social ____

social, reform

Step 1:

Choose and explore a general topic

Marx believed that society is divided into ____ who clash in pursuit of their own class interests.

Classes

Step 5:

Collect, analyze and interpret data

A made up model that serves as a measuring rod against which actual cases can be evaluated

Construct (Weber)

A change in one variable coincides with a change in the other

Correlation

Placed emphasis on showing how social forces impact people's behavior

Emile Durkheim

_____ discovered/created the idea of anomie

Emile Durkheim

Step 3:

Formulate a Hypothesis

Which sociologist argued that face-to-face, micro-level interactions are the building blocks that make a society?

Georg Simmel

Which sociologist used breaching experiments to study micro-level social structures?

Harold Garfinkel

Wrote "Society in America" and translated August Comte's ideas into English and reduced 7 volumes to 2.

Harriet Martineau

Did not believe that sociology should guide social reform. Believed in social Darwinism which means over time, society improves, and he coined the term "survival of the fittest"

Herbert Spencer

_____ did not conduct scientific studies.

Herbert Spencer

Step 2:

Identify a specific research question

The 2 origins of sociology are _____ revolution and ______ change

Industrial, political

Believed that people should take active steps to change society

Karl Marx

_____ determined that ____ ____ is the engine of human history.

Karl Marx, class conflict

largely unrecognized or unintended consequence

Latent function

The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern

Manifest Function

The process of determining the value of a variable in a specific case

Measurement

Marx also believed that group identifications and associations influence an individuals _______

Place in society

Emile Durkheim said social research must be _____, and it is important to discover causes for social ills and recommend _____.

Practical, remedies

Step 6:

Report the results

a selection from the larger population that is statistically typical

Representative Sample