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

Who coined the term positivism and is considered the father of sociology?

Auguste Comte

What approach is often used to understand what's defined as deviant within a society?

Constructivism

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

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

Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Karl Marx were all advocates of:

conflict theory

Which theorist claimed that people rise to their proper level in society based solely on their belief in a meritocracy?

Émile Durkheim

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