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Sociology Unit 1
Sociology Unit 1 Review Mrs. Furbush
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sociology | study of human behavior in groups |
| Perspective | a point of view |
| Father of Sociology | Auguste Compte |
| Analyzed structure of Black community | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Verstehen | theory that one must be able to put themselves in someone else's shoes |
| Wrote about inferior role of women | Harriet Martineau |
| Compared society to the human body and believed in Social Darwinism | Herbert Spencer |
| Functionalism | Theory that looks at society as an integrated whole. If one part breaks down, the other parts are affected. |
| Symbolic Interactionism | Theory focuses on the interaction of people based on their shared meaning of symbols |
| Conflict Theory | Theory that states there is conflict and competition between groups in society |
| Gender & race issues deal with this theory | Conflict Theory |
| This theory may blame an increase in crime to a breakdown in the family | Functionalism |
| Two types of research in sociology | Quantitative & Qualitative |
| This research method involves people answering a series of questions | Survey |
| In this method, researchers use pre-collected data such as prison records, government reports | Secondary Analysis |
| Child Ed students observing children in the PACTT Center is an example of this type of research | Field Research |
| Research must not harm the people involved | Code of Ethics |
| Conformity | How members of a group think, feel, and behave in a similiar way |
| JROTC students all wear uniforms | Example of Conformity |
| Sociological Imagination | How we see the relationship between our personal lives and society |
| Social Structure | The patterned interaction of people in social relationships |
| Correlation | A measure of how things are related to each other |
| Karl Marx | German scholar who believed society was made up of conflict between two social classes |
| What are 7 steps in research? | Identify the problem, Review the Literature, Formulate the Hypothesis, Develop the research design, Collect data, Analyze data, State findings & conclusion |