Know your Sociologists
I am a French sociologist most identified with social integration.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
The corners of life that people occupy such as job, gender, race.
What are social locations?
Individuals picked to represent the population in a study.
What is a sample?
Norms are expected to be broken on ________ holiday.
What is moral?
The spread of cultural characteristics from one group to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
I was the first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to social life.
Who is Auguste Comte?
Applying the scientific method to the social world.
What is positivism?
Interviewer bias may occur because of a researcher's gender. True or False
What is True?
Subcultures are a threat to the main culture. T/F
What is false?
values, norms and other cultural traits found in all societies.
What are cultural universals?
I believed that society is made up of two social classes and I did not think of myself as a sociologist.
Who is Karl Marx?
This perspective emphasizes how people are influenced by society?
What is the sociological perspective?
A statement that describes how variables are expected to relate to one another.
What is hypothesis?
Jewelry, art, clothing are examples of this type of culture.
What is material culture?
Has values and norms that place it at odds with the dominant culture.
What is counter culture?
I am responsible for suggesting the connection between history and biography to explain the sociological imagination.
Who is C. Wright Mills?
Which perspective is best to use in understanding society- structural functionalism, conflict perspective, or symbolic interactionism?
What are all 3?
The extent to which different studies come up with similar results.
What is reliability?
Sociologists agree that gestures are universal. T/F
What is false?
The author added these three values to sociologist Robin Williams' ten core values.
What is education, religiosity, and romantic love.
I coined the term survival of the fittest.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
___________ sociology is directed toward the development of theory and research; ____________ sociology is geared toward solving problems and shaping social policy.
What is Basic or pure sociology? What is applied sociology?
Gives each person in the population an equal chance of being chosen.
What is a random sample?
Expectations of behavior that develop from values.
What are norms?
The automobile and skills needed to drive it are an example of this.
What is technology?