Famous Sociologists
theories
history of socio
vocab
Bonus Content
100

Did lengthy study on the effects of suicide on overall society; also focused on how moral systems (religion) helped or hindered societal progress, studied social solidarity

Emilé Durkheim

100

a theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources

Conflict Theory

100

What historical time period did the idea of sociology come up?

Industrial Revolution

100

How people relate to one another and influence each other’s behavior

Social interaction

100

How tall is Ms Wickerham

5'7

200

saw society as being made up of individuals in different social classes who must compete for social, material, and political resources such as food and housing, employment, education, and leisure time, he believed in a class-less society and wrote critical theory

Karl Marx

200

Focuses on the interactions among people based on their mutually understood symbols

Symbolic Interactionism 

200

Rapid ______ and ______ changes that took place in Europe

social and political

200

an ability to see the context which shapes your individual decision making, as well as the decisions made by others. 

Sociological Imagination

200

How many states has Ms Wick lived in?

3

300

English philosopher and sociologist who applied the theory of natural selection to human societies, wrote about functionalism

Herbert Spencer

300

society is a set of interrelated parts, these parts work together to provide social stability

Functionalist Theory

300

Growth of ______

Cities

300

philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them

Paradigms

400

German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920), came up with the theory of social stratification, wrote the spirit of capitalism

Max Weber

400

Sociological perspective vs psychological perspective 

group vs individual

400

The study of society, human behavior and social forces that shape our lives.

Sociology

500

translated Comte’s book to English, focused on the oppression of women, the first feminist

Harriet Marinteau

500

which 3 teachers at desales interviewed ms wickerham for her job? (hint: two of them are in my department)

mcgoldrick, ulry and devorak

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