Sociology Basics
Theory
Culture
Socialization
Social Structure
100
This perspective can be used to look at how one's groups and the larger society are affecting that person.
What is the sociological perspective or the sociological imagination?
100
He argued that class conflict was the key issue in society.
Who is Karl Marx?
100
This attitude causes discrimination.
What is ethnocentrism?
100
Children who are raised by non-human animals.
What are feral children?
100
Race is an example of this kind of status.
What is an ascribed status?
200
A belief that the scientific method can be used to explain social phenomena.
What is postivism?
200
This functionalist argued that suicide was based on social ties.
Who is Durkheim?
200
This attitude allows us to look at culture from its own point of view.
What is cultural relativism?
200
Cooley's theory that our self concept is based on how we perceive others react to us.
What is the looking glass self?
200
The prism through which others view you regardless of your other statuses
What is a master status?
300
The two conflicting perspectives on sociology's basic goals.
What are pure knowledge and applied knowledge?
300
This level of analysis is attentive to detail.
What is micro-level analysis?
300
This theory indicates that language, itself, may influence the way we see things.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
300
A mother would be an example of this category of relationship.
What is a significant other?
300
A type of solidarity that is characterized by people who are different from one another.
What is organic solidarity?
400
A research method that consists of many respondents being asked a particular set of questions.
What is survey research?
400
Conflict theorists and functionalists use this level of analysis.
What is macro-level analysis?
400
An everyday norm.
What is a folkway?
400
The stage during which young children mimic what they see others do.
What is imitation?
400
Tonnies term for a close-knit society.
What is Gemeinschaft?
500
The variable that alters another variable.
What is an independent variable?
500
These are the three major theoretical perspectives in sociology.
What are functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism?
500
A serious norm violation.
What is a more?
500
An institution that meets all the needs of its members is classified as this.
What is a total institution?
500
This is what happens when the responsibilities you have in different statuses compete.
What is role conflict?
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