This is the study of human society and social behavior.
What is Sociology?
100
This type of research translates the social world into numerical data, such as percentages.
What is quantitative research?
100
This is the only micro-sociological theory of the three major classical theories.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
100
This is the aspect of a person that is unique and distinguishes them from others.
What is the Self?
100
This is the type of culture we can touch.
What is material culture?
200
This way of thinking allows us to see the connection between private troubles and public issues.
What is The Sociological Imagination?
200
This type of research involves face-to-face conversations with respondents to learn more about them.
What is an interview?
200
This is the theory created by Comte, which states that sense perceptions are the only valid source of knowledge.
What is Positivism?
200
This is a lifelong process through which people learn the values, norms, and behaviors of their society.
What is Socialization?
200
This is the kind of norm that governs everyday interactions, like maintaining personal space and holding the door for others.
What is a folkway?
300
This is an idea, concept or behavior that is created by society, but treated as if it is real.
What is a social construction?
300
This type of research involves going into an environment and observing, interviewing, and possibly participating in their subculture to better understand the meanings they give to their actions.
What is an ethnography?
300
This is the theory formally instituted by Durkheim, that focuses on the various structures of society and how they help maintain order in the society.
What is Functionalism?
300
This debate considers the extent to which genetics and/or socialization determines who we are.
What is the Nature v. Nurture Debate?
300
This is a positive or a negative reactions to someone violating or upholding a norm.
What is a sanction?
400
This is the mindset that allows us to recognize that some of our "normal" behaviors can actually be seen as "strange."
What is the Sociological Perspective?
400
This is the group of individuals that a researcher studies because they are not able to gather information from the total population.
What is the sample?
400
This is the theory that recognizes that we do not suffer from only one type of oppression, so it is important to focus on various, intertwining forms of inequality/oppression.
What is Intersectionality Theory?
400
This is the stage in Mead's proposed stages of development in which babies imitate others with no real understanding of what they are doing.
What is the Preparatory Stage?
400
This is the way of thinking in which a person judges other cultures (often as inferior) based on their own standards of normalcy.
What is Ethnocentrism?
500
This is a system of beliefs, vales, and attitudes that directs a society and reproduces the status quo of the bourgeoisie.
What is an ideology?
500
This is the variable that comes in between two other variables that skews their relationship, making it appear that one is causing the other when this is not actually the case.
What is the spurious variable?
500
This theoretical perspective questions "normalcy" associated with sexual categories.
What is Queer Theory?
500
This is the theory that explains that we are who we think other people think we are.
What is The Looking-Glass Self?
500
This is the process of dissemination of material and symbolic culture from one group to another.