Vocab
This is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior
What is Sociology?
This is the theoretical perspective based on the notion that social events can best be explained in terms of the functions they perform – that is, the contributions they make to the continuity of society
What is functionalism?
This sociologist believed that all social problems could be boiled down to the economic structure of capitalism
Who is Karl Marx?
Who is Auguste Comte?
This is the specialization of work tasks by means of which different occupations are combined within a production system
What is Division of Labor?
This is the theoretical approach in sociology developed by George Herbert Mead that emphasizes the role of symbols and language as core elements of all human interaction
What is symbolic interactionism?
This sociologist believed that societies can be studied scientifically
Who is Auguste Comte?
This country had a revolution based on the ideas of one of the most famous sociologists
What is Russia (the Bolsheviks)?
This is a type of organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and the existence of written rules of procedure and staffed by full-time, salaried officials
This is the sociological perspective that emphasizes the role of political and economic power and oppression as contributing to the existing social order
What is conflict theory?
This sociologist spent most of their career studying bureaucracies
Who is Max Weber?
This is a common appliance that is used to understand how widespread the field of sociology is
What is urinals?
This is the conditioning influence on our behavior of the groups and societies of which we are members. One of the distinct properties of social facts.
What is social contraint?
This is a framework that studies how gender, power, and inequality shape social life and institutions
What is feminist theories?
This sociologist is most known for their study of the society of the United States
Who is Harriet Martineau?
This former first lady majored in Sociology
Who is Michelle Obama?
This is a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behaviors
What is anomie?
What is a paradigm
This sociologist used double consciousness to describe the way to talk about the identity through the scope of African Americans
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This Tina Fey movie was based on a sociological book
What is Mean Girls?