Theorists
Who named the scientific study of social patterns ”positivism“?
Auguste Comte
list the 6 steps in the scientific method
1. Ask a question
2. Research existing sources
3. Formutate a hypothesis
4. Design and conduct a study
5. Draw conclusions
6. Report results
What is culture
shared beliefs and value
The way each part of society functions together to contribute to the functioning of the whole
Structural functionalism
The ability to understand how your own past relates to that of other people, as well as to history in general and societal structures in particular
Sociological imagination
Max Weber
The greater the availability of affordable housing, the lower the homeless rate. What is the independent variable here?
Affordable housing
To evaluate and judge another culture based on ones own cultural norms
Ethnocentrism
what is the level of analysis Of structural functionalism
Macro
If we keep our sociological imagination awake, we can begin to _____________________________?
-understand and accept the differences.
Believed that women, children and all races should be equal to white males
Harriet Martineau
What is the formal guidelines for conducting sociological research
Ethics
how do people communicate?
Letters, pictographs, hand gestures
The way one on one interactions and communications behave
Symbolic interactionism
Who described the sociological imagination as an awareness of the relationship between a persons behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the persons choices and perceptions
C. Wright Millis
founder of social ecology
Robert e. park
-analysis of government data (sense statistics)
-research of historic documents
Secondary data analysis
The ___________ has been interpreted to suggest that if a word doesn’t exist in a language then users of that language cannot have the experience.
Sapir-whorf hypothesis
Is symbolic interactionism macro or micro?
Micro
(True or False) sociologist doesn’t often study culture using the sociological imagination.
False
Who published “The Study of Sociology“?
Herbert Spencer
The greater the police patrol presence, the safer the neighborhood. What is the dependent variable here?
Safer neighborhood
Having wealth? Is it high culture or low culture?
High culture
How each organ works to keep your body healthy
Structural functionalism
True or false? Body language and hand gestures vary around the world, but some body language seems to be shared across cultures.
True