Introduction
This is the main subject of Sociology.
What is Society/human social life, etc.?
He coined the term sociological imagination.
Who is C. Wright Mills?
This theory views society as a system of interrelated parts.
What is functionalism?
Granfield studied students in this professional school environment.
What is law school?
A testable statement about relationships between variables.
What is a hypothesis?
He is considered the father of sociology.
Who is Auguste Comte?
The sociological imagination links these two things.
What are public issues and personal troubles?
This theory emphasizes inequality and struggle over resources.
What is conflict theory?
Working-class students often concealed their backgrounds to fit elite culture. Granfield called this what?
What is “faking it” / passing?
Research using numbers and statistics.
What is quantitative?
This sociologist said we should try to understand people by seeing the world through their eyes (verstehen).
Who is Max Weber?
This perspective encourages us to see the strange in the familiar.
What is the sociological perspective?
This early theorist wrote The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.
Who is Karl Marx?
Granfield’s findings show how students manage self-presentation. This concept comes from Goffman.
What is impression (trying to fit in) management?
Interviews and observations are examples of this method.
What is qualitative?
This sociologist studied suicide to understand how people connect to society.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Unemployment being tied to economic shifts rather than laziness is an example of what?
What is a public issue?
This theory focuses on how people use symbols to create meaning.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Struggling to reconcile class identity with elite expectations reflects this symbolic-interactionist problem.
What is role strain / identity conflict?
Will also accept being stuck between worlds.
Granfield’s law school study used this research approach.
What is ethnography / observation?
Shared rules and expectations for behavior are called this.
What are social norms?
Mills argued that developing a sociological imagination requires moving beyond “common sense” to recognize these hidden influences on our lives.
What are social structures / broader social forces?
Will also accept biography and history.
He argued that ideas such as the Protestant ethic shape social life.
Who is Max Weber?
Over time, some students distanced themselves from working-class peers and values to succeed professionally. Granfield called this process what?
What is assimilation (into elite culture)?
Will also accept leaving behind their identity.
If a study actually measures what it claims to measure it has _______.
What is validity?