Sociology chapter 1

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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 ____.


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