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sociology chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is sociology? | the social science that studies human society and social behavior. |
| what is social sciences? | the disciplines that study human social behavior or institutions and functions of human society in a scientific manner. |
| what is social interaction? | how people relate to one another and influence each other's behavior. |
| what is social Phenomena? | observable facts or events that involve human society. |
| what is socioalogical perspective? | looking beyond commonly held beliefs to the hidden meanings behind human actions. |
| what is sociological imagination? | the ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life. |
| what is anthropology? | the comparative study of past and present cultures. |
| what is psychology? | the social science that deals with the behavior and thinking of organisms. |
| what is social psychology? | the study of how the social enviornment affects an individuals behavior and personality. |
| what is political science? | areas of mutual interest include voting patterns, the concentration of political power, and the information of politically based groups. |
| who is C. Wright Mills? | C. Wright Mills is a sociologist who explained what a sociological imagination is. |
| what is History? | the study of past events |
| who is Auguste Comte? | he is considered the founder of sociology. He was one of the first scholars to use the methods of physical sciences to the study of social life. |
| Who is Herbert Spencer? | was an English contemporary of Comte. He started out as a civil engineer for a railway company. When he was on his thirties, he inherited a lot of money. So insteadod working to earn money anymore he decided to pursue his interest in the study of society. |
| what is Social Darwinism? | Herbert Spencer's similar ideas to Charles Darwin's "survival of the fittest". |
| Who is Karl Marx? | He was unable to get a teaching job because of his political views. The same reason why the government closed the newspaper place he worked at. He then moved to Paris to be in a more liberal atmosphere. But the Prussian Goverment made Paris expel him. |
| Who is Emile Durkheim? | A frenchman who was educated in France and Germany. In his late 20s he was accepted to a teaching position at the University of Bordeaux in France. In France he developed the country's first university sociology course. |
| what is a function? | the consequence that an element of society produces for the maintenance of its social system. |
| Who is Max Weber? | He got his doctoral degree from the university of Berlin. He later had a teaching position at the same University. He later became a professor of economics at the University of Heidelberg. |
| what is Verstehen? | an attempt to understand the meaning of individuals attach to their actions. |
| what is an Ideal Type? | a description comprised of the essential characteristics of a feature of society. |
| What is a theory? | an explanation of the relationships among particular phenomena. |
| What are theoretical perspectives? | a general set of assumptions about the nature of phenomena. |
| What is a functionalist perspective? | theoretical perspectives that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produse a stable social system. |
| What is dysfunctional? | the negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system. |
| what is a manifest fuction? | the intended and recognized consequence of some element of society. |
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