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Ch.1 Sec 7,8,9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What university was sociology first taught at in the U.S? | Kansas |
| List nine women who made early contributions to the field of sociology | Jane Adams / Emily Greene Balch / Isabel Eaton / Sophie Germain / Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Alice Itamilton / Florence Kelley / Elsie Clews Parsons / Alice Paul |
| They focus on aiding people in poverty and socially maladjusted members of society. They have jobs in hospitals and schools, and many work in the area of public aid. Others set up private and counsel patients. | Social Work |
| Came from a wealthy family. Attended medical school in Philly until she dropped out due to illness. Traveled to Europe and inspirid to make social change. Founded Hull House. Co-winner of the Nobel peace prize. Passed laws against child labor. | Jane Addams |
| A place open to people who needed refuge-immigrants, sick, aged, poor. Workers were exploited and howm peasant immigrants adjusted to the city life. | Hull House |
| First African American to achieve a doctorate from Harvard. Taught Greek and Latin. Suffered greatly from racism. Published"The philidelphia negro" and "The souls of black folks". Studied relations between african Americans. | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| Developed abstract models of society that influenced a generation of sociologists. Parsons detailed models of how the parts of society harminously work together did nothing to stimulate social activism. Studied crime, drug addition, Juvenile delingancy. | Talcott Parsons |
| Deplored the theoretical abstractions of this period and urged sociologist to get back to social reform. He saw the coalesang of interests on the part of a group called power elite. After he died social activism became popular | C. Wright Mills |
| The use of sociology to solve problems from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution. | Applied sociology |
| A theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their of the world and communicate with one another. | Symbolic Interactionism |
| The things to which we attract meaning | Symbol |
| A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts each with a function that when fulfilled contributes to society's equilibrium. Also known as functionalism and structural functionalism. | Functional Analysis |
| If an action is intended to help some part of a system | Manifest function |
| They can have unintended consequences that help a system digest. | Latent function |
| A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups competing for scarce resources. | Conflict Theory |
| Functionalists and conflict theories focus on this. They examine large scale patterns of society. | Macro level |
| Symbolic interactions focus on this. They examine small scale patterns of society. | Micro level |
| What people do when they are in another's presence. | Social interaction |
| Communication without words through gestures, use of space, silence, and so on. | Nonverbal interaction |
| The extensive interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism. | Globalization |
| Capitalism (investigating to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globes dominant economic system. | Globilization of capitalism |