theorist
Who favored the form of government that allowed market forces to control capitalism and believes in “survival of the fittest”
Who is Herbert Spencer
One of the research methods that collects data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire or an interview
What is a survey
the standards society would like to embrace and live up to and is different then real culture
What is ideal culture
are philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.
What is paradigms
___________, social forces and influences put pressure on people to select one choice over another. Sociologists try to identify these general patterns by examining the behavior of large groups of people living in the same society and experiencing the same societal pressures.
What is Cultural Patterns
He established a sociology department in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in 1919. he wrote on many topics related to sociology including political change in Russia and social forces that affect factory workers?
who is Max Weber
conducting an ___, meaning they investigate relationships to test a hypothesis—a scientific approach.
What is an Experiment
behaviors that reflect compliance with what cultures and societies have defined as good, right, and important.
What are the Norms
How many paradigms are there
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Sociologists often study culture using the __________________, which pioneer sociologist C. Wright Mills described as an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions.
What is sociological imagination
helped establish sociology as a formal academic discipline by establishing the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895
Who is Émile Durkheim
A ________ is an in-depth analysis of a single event, situation, or individual. To conduct a case study, a researcher examines existing sources like documents and archival records, conducts interviews, engages in direct observation and even participant observation, if possible.
What is Case Study
established, written rules existing in all societies. They support many social institutions, such as the military, criminal justice and healthcare systems, and public schools.
What are the formal Norms
sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of the individuals in that society
What are Functionalism
________ the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and cultural rules that govern social life that may contribute to these changes in the family.
What is social facts
He focused on micro-level theories and analyzed the dynamics of two-person and three-person groups
Who is Georg Simmel
the immersion of the researcher in the natural setting of an entire social community to observe and experience their everyday life and culture. The heart of an _________ study focuses on how subjects view their own social standing and how they understand themselves in relation to a social group.
What is ethnography
a system that uses symbols with which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted.
Language
The way inequities and inequalities contribute to social, political, and power differences and how they perpetuate power.
What is Conflict Theory
German sociologist Norbert Elias called the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior_________.
What is figuration
She was an early analyst of social practices, including economics, social class, religion, suicide, government, and women’s rights
Who is Harriet Martineau
An extension of basic ethnographic research principles that focuses intentionally on everyday concrete social relationships. Developed by Canadian sociologist Dorothy E. Smith (1990),_______________ is often considered a feminist-inspired approach to social analysis and primarily considers women’s experiences within male- dominated societies and power structures.
What is Institutional Ethnography
It is based on the idea that people experience their world through their language, and therefore understand their world through the cultural meanings embedded in their language.
What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
The way one-on-one interactions and communications behave.
What is Symbolic Interactionism
While people experience religion in a distinctly individual manner, religion exists in a larger social context as a ___________. For instance, an individual’s religious practice may be influenced by what government dictates, holidays, teachers, places of worship, rituals, and so on.
What is social institution