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sociology people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Auguste Comte | "Father of Sociology" Society could be studied scientifically, build a better society |
| Karl Marx | Believed societies grew and changed because of struggles and social conflict |
| Herbert Spencer | Wrote "the study of sociology" agreed with social darwinism, First sociology textbook |
| Emile Durkheim | Notable for his studies about/on suicide to understand social forces. |
| Max Weber | Valued both quanitative and qualitative data, emphasized scientific research methods. |
| Sociology | Study of society, social behavior, and how people interact with one another, studying people in groups or society. |
| Socius | Latin for companion "study of comanionship" |
| Paradigram | Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a disipline to formulate theories, generalizations and the experiments performed to support them. |
| Empirical Evidence | Evidence from direct experience or observations |
| Ethongraphy | Observing a complete social setting and all that it entails |
| Functionalism | Society works together, institutions serve a purpose to stabilize society |
| Conflict theory | society is in competition for limited resources, power will use power to keep power and maintain order |
| Symbolic interactionism | Relationship of individuals in their society |
| Naturalistic observation | A method of collecting qualitative data through observing people in a natural setting |