theory & theorist
What is a conflict theory?
Looks at a society as a competition for limited resources
What is a independent variable?
Variable that cause change in dependent variable.
What is counter culture?
Groups that reject and oppose society‘s widely accepted cultural patterns
What are Manifest Functions?
The consequences of social patterns that are sought or anticipated
What is positivism?
The application of the scientific approach to the social world.
What is class conflict?
Marx’s term for exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production.
What is a dependent variable?
A variable changed by another variable
What is Social solidarity
Social ties within a group
What is Ethnography?
The scientific descriptions of the customs of individual people and cultures.
What does concept mean?
A mental construct that represents some parts of the world in a simplified form (the family, gender, social class).
Where did Dubois get his PhD from?
Harvard university
What is primary data?
What is society?
A group of people who lived in a defined area who interact with one another and who share a common culture.
latent functions are…?
The unsought consequences of social processes
What is meant by reliability?
It’s a key focus for positivists, it refers to whether or not research will produce similar results if repeated.
how did web dubois contribution to sociology?
the first sociologist to articulate the agency of the oppressed
What is secondary data analysis?
Using data collected by others and applying new interpretations.
What is social perspective?
Understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context.
What are 4 types of functions?
Regulations,extractions,distribution,and excretory
What is meant by representativeness?
Where findings represent and can be applied to a large research population.
What is the formal operational stage?
Cognitive stage characterized by thinks ability to think abstractly and hypothetocally
What is social sciences?
The intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observation.
social integration is…
The degree to which people feel a part of social groups.
who was conflicted theory based around?
Karl Max
What do positivist argue?
That human behavior is a result of social forces, they dismiss the idea of human emotions as they can’t be measured.