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Sociology Test 1
Term | |
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Sociology | scientific study of human behavior in society |
Sociological perspective | looks at groups within society |
global perspective | study of larger world and our society in it |
Ethnocentrism | Inability to understand others beliefs that are different from our own |
August Comte | Coined sociology- Positivism- Scientific inquiry |
Harriet Martineau | Translated Comte's work- first women sociologist- rights activist |
Emile Durkheim | People are product of society- social facts- anomie- mechanical and organic solidarity father of sociology |
Karl Marx | continuing clash between inflicting ideas- economic systems- class conflict |
Max Weber | Protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism- research is value free(verstehen)- Rationalization |
Jane Addams | Founded Hull House- Nobel Prize |
W.E.B. Du Bois | African American- Double consciousness |
C Wright Mills | Went to Baylor- Sociological Integration- see relationship between individual and large society |
Functionalist perspective | Macro level view- orderly stable society |
Functionalists | Durkheim, Spencer, Comte |
Manifest | open obvious consequences of society |
Latent | unintended consequences |
Conflict Perspective | Macro level view. constant power struggle |
Conflict believers | Marx, Weber, WEB, Write |
Symbolic interaction | Micro level view. views society as product of everyday interactions of individuals George Herbert Mead |
Deduction | begins with theory |
Inductive | start with data analysis get to theory |
validity | measuring exactly what you intend to |
Spurious | association of two variables that is actually caused by a third |
mechanical solidarity | small town rural, classic |
organic solidarity | big city industrial |