What is Sociology?
What is the scientific study of society
Who is the theorist behind functionalism
Who is the theorist behind Symbolic Interactionism
George Herbert Mead
What are the 6 steps?
1. An idea 2. Research Question 3. Hypothesis 4. Data 5. Get & analyze results 6. Make Recommendations
What are values?
A belief about how something should be
Who is the theorist behind conflict theory?
Karl Marx
Who is the father of sociology?
Auguste Comte
What is a research question
The question your research aims to answer
What are norms?
Shared rules and expectations guiding behavior in a group or society
Define Society
What is a group that shares a culture and territory.
Who brought sociology to English speakers?
Harriett Martineau
Summarize functionalism in 1-2 sentences
Society is made up of interrelated parts that work together to meet society’s biological and social needs
What is a hypothesis
What you expect the outcome to be
What are the 4 types of norms?
Mores, Folkways, Laws, and Taboos
Define Social Fact
What is the products of human interaction with
persuasive or coercive power that exist externally to
any individual.
Summarize Conflict Theory in 1-2 sentences
Conflict Theory looks at society as a competition for limited resources.
Summarize Symbolic Interactionism in 1-2 sentences
Humans interact with things based on meanings ascribed to those things; the ascribed meaning of things comes from our interactions with others and society; the meanings of things are interpreted by a person when dealing with things in specific circumstances.
What is an independent and dependent variable
Independent: This is what is *supposed* to be impacting the outcome
Dependent: The outcome
Folkway
What is the use of imaginative thought to understand the relationship between ______ and the ______.
What are the three types of functions?
Who are the proletarians and the bourgeoisie?
The Bourgeoisie own and controls the means of production, the Proletarians are the ones who sell their labor
What is a sample and population
Population: The group you are trying to answer a question about
Sample: The people in the data that are being studied
Running a red light violates which type of norm
Laws