Theorist
Which theorist named the scientific study of social patterns positivism?
Auguste Comte
Gather data from a natural environment without doing a lab experiment or a survey.
Field Research
What term refers to the group’s shared practices, values, and belief?
Culture
Paradigms are philosophical and ___ frameworks.
Theoretical
What is the ability to understand how your own past relates to that of other people, as well as to history in general and societal structures in particular
Sociological imagination
What book did Karl Marx coauthor with?
Communist Manifesto
What represents research collected in numerical form that is counted?
Quantitative data
What do sociologist often use to study culture?
Sociological imagination
Which 3 paradigms have come to dominate sociological thinking?
Structural functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism
What happens if we keep our sociological imagination awake?
We can begin to understand and accept the differenc.
Who published The Study of Sociology?
Herbert Spencer
Why should you do background research before constructing a hypotheses?
So you don’t repeat an existing research
This concept is To deal with cultural biases that can influence a sociologist‘s research.
Verstehen
Which paradigm refers to the analogy of how each organ works to keep your body healthy?
Structural Functionalism
True or false, we use sociological imagination to recognize that individual behaviors are affected by the historical periods period in which they take place
True
Which theorist did Karl Marx theory of society oppose to?
Auguste Comte
What is it called when a researcher immerses themselves in a group or social setting in order to make observations from an insider perspective?
Participant Observation
true or false. Culture is not a product of the people in a society
False.
Conflict Theory has a level analysis of macro. True or False?
True
How is sociological imagination used?
It connects one’s personal concerns with general events.
What government did Herbert Spencer favor?
name three of the six scientific method for research.
1. Ask a question
2. Do background research
3. Construct a hypotheses
4. Test your hypothesis
5. Analyze your data
6. Report your results
What kinds of pressure put on people to deflect one choice over another.
Cultural patterns, social force, and influence.
Symbolic Interactionism is the focus of?
The way one-on-one interactions and communications behave
What is the conclusion of social imagination?
It allows a person to view their personal experiences and conflicts in a expanded social and historical context.