This is the negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system. Examples include crime.
What is dysfunction
100
This form of research is the best for gathering a large volume of information from a very large sample.
What is survey method
100
This measure of central tendency is the simplest and most useful for basic research and non-numerical data sets.
What is the mode
100
This organization helps to regulate sociological research and reviews articles for content and style. It is a professional organization for sociologists.
What is the American Sociological Association
100
This researcher conducted a prison experiment and found that, in the absence of clear rules, people's behavior is defined by their social roles.
Who is Dr. Philip Zimbardo
200
This is the unintended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society.
What is the latent function
200
This form of research involves watching and taking notes, although the researcher might also get involved in the life of the group.
What is observation
200
This type of graph is probably the best way of visually representing differences between groups.
What is the bar graph
200
This early theorist studied Darwin's theory of evolution and adapted it for the social sciences. He used his beliefs in survival of the fittest to justify the position that sociologists should not interfere with social change.
Who is Herbert Spencer
200
These researchers called their finding the 'Bystander Effect' and discovered that when people are in large groups, they will fail to take needed action unless a leader emerges and takes control of the situation.
Who are Darley & Latane
300
This is the intended or recognized consequence of some element of socity
What is the manifest function
300
This form of research is more common in psychology than sociology because it involves closely observing an individual over a long period of time.
What is case study
300
When two or more factors occur together in time or space, researchers say that they are connected by this.
What is correlation
300
This theorist is not often spoken of as a sociologist, but his ideas about the economic struggles between the wealthy owners of the means of production and the poor workers have been very influential over the last century.
Who is Karl Marx
300
In his famous obedience studies, this researcher found that most people would do things against their own moral principals when told to do so by an authority figure.
Who is Stanley Milgram
400
Anything which stands for something else; studying the roles that these play in our everyday lives is a main focus of the interactionist perspective.
What is a symbol
400
This form of study involves reading others' research and making connections between studies.
What is historical method
400
The way sociologists give meaning to data by manipulating them mathematically to look for correlation and to represent these findings visually.
What is Statistical Analysis
400
This early sociologist has had the most impact on the theories of American sociologists, and stresses the interaction between individuals and society.
Who is Max Weber
400
This group of 3 famous and unethical experiments bridge the gap between psychology and sociology because they study both individual thought process and the interaction between groups of people.
What are the human behavior experiments
500
The empathetic understanding of the meanings that others attach to their actions, this German word is similar to perspective.
What is verstehen
500
Although it is beyond the scope of this class, this form of research is the most scientific and is the only one able to test for causation.
What is experimentation
500
The Mean, Median and Mode are three measures of this attribute of data sets.
What is Central Tendency
500
Although he is considered the first sociologist, this guy contributed little to the discipline beyond the understanding that social systems change over time.
Who is Auguste Comte
500
Religion and suicide were two of the favorite research topics of this early Sociologist, who was the first to test his theories through statistical analysis.