CONCEPTS
WHO SAID WHAT
MISCELLANEOUS
APPLICATIONS
SOCIOLOGY GENERAL
100
This term refers to a state of normlessness that occurs during a period of social change and disorder
What is anomie?
100
"To classify crime among the phenomena of normal sociology is not to say merely that it is an inevitable, although regrettable phenomenon due to the incorrigible wickedness of men; it is to affirm that it is a factor in public health, an integral part of all healthy societies."
Who is Emile Durkheim?
100
In this theoretical perspective, deviance is seen as part of a complicated system where stability and social order is promoted when complex parts work together.
What is functionalism?
100
Kamikazes, soldier jumping on grenade or charging hill, suicide bombers are examples of which kind of suicide?
What is altruistic suicide?
100
The primary relationships studied by sociologists are the ones between ___________and ______________.
What are individual and society?
200
Behavior that violates standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society
What is deviance? (deviant behavior)
200
“deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules or sanctions to an “offender.” The deviant is one to whom that label has been successfully applied; deviant behavior is behavior that people so label”
Who is Howard Becker?
200
Circumstance, space and time are three dimensions of this phenomena.
What is the relativity of deviance?
200
A number of financial professionals from the United States to London to Hong Kong have committed suicide in the past couple of years. They had a high-pressure job that had been under even more scrutiny since the financial crisis. Them taking their lives could be an example of what kind of suicide?
What is fatalistic suicide?
200
Is an awareness of the relationship between individuals and the social forces that shape our lives
What is the sociological imagination?
300
According to Durkheim, two social factors are relevant for explaining suicide.
What are social integration and social regulation?
300
"Deviance is not a property inherent in certain forms of behavior; it is a property conferred upon these forms by the audiences which directly or indirectly witness them."
Who is K. T. Erikson?
300
This perspective sees deviance as resting on the assumption that all human behavior can be considered either inherently good or inherently bad
What is absolutism?
300
Generally isolated teenagers, not popular at all, harassed or teased by others taking their lives are examples of which kind of suicide?
What is egoistic suicide?
300
This generally looks at social dynamics across whole societies or large parts of them and often relies on statistical analysis to do so.
What is macro-sociology?
400
Durkheim refers to the general structure of shared understanding, norms, and beliefs as
What is collective consciousness?
400
This sociologist claimed that broader patterns of deviance and crime are rooted in social structure, because of a "strain" people face between societal goals and means of obtaining these goals
Who is Robert K Merton?
400
A combination of factors - including personal lives, economic situations, lack of legitimate hang-out space, drugs, alienation from school and parents, parental high expectations, and quick negative judgments - created a situation in which teens wanted out and they thought suicide was the only answer
What is the main argument in Teenage Wasteland?
400
Someone committing suicide after bankruptcy or after winning a lottery and being exposed to rapid change and loss of a sense of control could be an example of which kind of suicide?
What is anomic suicide?
400
A science guided by the basic understanding that "the social matters: our lives are affected, not only by our individual characteristics, but by our place in the social world." It is the study of human social life, groups, and societies
What is Sociology?
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