Which Sociologist called the personal use of sociology the sociological imagination?
C. Wright Mills
Which Sociologist established themselves as pioneering feminist theorist?
Harriet Martineau
Which Sociologist is recognized as the father of sociology?
Auguste Comte
Which Sociologist said the key to the unfolding of history was class conflicts?
Karl Marx
Which Sociologist felt groups are not simply a collection of individuals, rather they are separate from the individuals who from them?
Emile Durkheim
Which Sociologist introduced Dramaturgy?
Erving Goffman
Which Sociologist coined the term symbolic interactionism?
Herbert Blumer
Which Sociologist focused on the civil rights and the movement of people along the Mexica-American border?
Julian Samora
Which Sociologist worked under the assumption that African Americans should accept segregation in return for promises of economic gains?
Booker T. Washington
Which Sociologist believed human beings act on the basis of their own understanding of a situation?
Max Weber
What is the mindset that emphasizes the use of knowledge, reason, and planning?
Rationalization
What refers to the patterned ways in which people interact in social relationships?
Social Structure
What is the ability of individuals to see the relationship between events in their personal lives and events in their society?
Social Imagination
What is the theory of evolutionary social change that leads to progress, provided that if people do not interfere, natural social selection would endure?
Social Darwinism
All groups encourage what? which is behaviors that match group expectations.
Conformity
What are board ideas about what people in society consider desirable?
Values
What is an element that has a negative effect on society?
Dysfunction
Latent
What kind of functions are intended and recognized?
Manifest
What are the organized ways in which society meets its basic needs?
Social Institutions
Name the 3 theoretical perspectives most widely used by sociologists.
Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
What are Four social institutions that exists in the U.S.?
Family, Economy, Religion, Education, Law, Politics
The sociological method of verstehen states that we can understand the social behavior of others by doing what?
Putting yourself in their place.
Karl Marx predicted that at some point all industrial societies would contain only what 2 classes?
Bourgeoise and Proletariat
Name the 5 Key concepts in Sociology
Functional Integration
Social Structure
Power
Social Action
Culture