This theoretical perspective views society as a living organism in which each part of the organism contributes to its survival and stability.
What is the functionalist perspective?
100
The systematic, organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
What is the scientific method?
100
The process whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture.
What is socialization?
100
An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
What is a sociological imagination?
100
He developed the key concept of the looking glass self
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
200
The sociological perspective that sees the world in a continual struggle.
What is the conflict perspective?
200
A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables is known as this.
What is a hypothesis?
200
The distinct identity that sets us apart from others.
What is the self?
200
A loss of direction that is felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
What is anomie?
200
His study of suicide related suicide rates to the extent to which people were integrated into the group life of a society.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
300
The element or process of a society that may actually disrupt teh social system or reduces its stability.
What is dysfunction?
300
The term used to describe the phenomenon whereby subjects deviate from their typical behavior because they are under observation.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
300
Ther term used to refer to the child's awareness of attitudes viewpoints and expectations of society as a whole.
What is generalized other?
300
The word Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and attitudes.
What is verstehen?
300
He argued in his "Communist Manfesto" that the working class must overthrow the existing clas system of capitalist societies.
Who is Karl Marx?
400
This perspective generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction in order to understand society as a whole.
What is the interactionist perspective?
400
A study, generally in the from of a questionaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act.
What is a survey?
400
The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
What is resocialization?
400
The scientific study of social behavior and human groups.
What is Sociology?
400
He stated that investigators have an ethical obligation to accept research findings even when the data run counter to their own personal views, theoretically based explanations and widely accepted beliefs.
Who is Max Weber?
500
These functions of institutions are open, stated and conscious.
What are manifest functions?
500
The variable that is hypothesized to cause or influence another variable.
What is the independent variable?
500
The name of the phenomenon that is belief that we learn who we are by interacting with others
What is the looking glass self?
500
The term we use to describe a division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities (example: being Black in White America.
What is double consciousness?
500
His term "generalized other" refers to the child's awareness of the attitudes, viewpoints and expectations of society as a whole.