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The rich own the means of production and exploit the worker to keep themselves in power.
Who is Karl Marx
Society is structured to benefit the bourgeoisie and exploit the Proletariat
What is conflict Theory?
Emile Durkheim's term for lacking of social bonds
What is anomie?
This type of research utilizes methods like surveys and experiments and produces numerical data
What is Quantitative data?
When you select a problem to investigate?
What is step 1 of the scientific method?
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What is "Select a topic"?
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Society is like a machine made up of parts
What is structural functionalism?
This is the proper term that describes when 2 variables are related.
What is correlation?
When researchers participate in the research by being the main subject and collecting data based on their personal experiences
What is participant observation?
A cause and effect statement of relationship between two variables that is tested
What is a hypothesis?
Translated Comte's work into English
Who is Harriet Martineau?
This micro level theory promotes the idea that symbols guide our behavior
What is Symbolic Interaction
A small part of the population that data is collected from to conduct research.
What is a sample?
When a researcher borrows data that has been collected by someone else and uses for their own research purposes.
What is secondary data analysis?
Survey, Interviews, Experiments, Participant methods are all examples of __________________.
What are research methods?
Considered the father of sociology as he is the one who coined the term.
Who is August Comte?
This term discussed in Structural Functionalism describes a function that is unintended but still beneficial to society
Max Weber's famous book that argues religion is the dominant force that drove the spirit of capitalism?
What is the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism?
This can happen when there are issues with your research methods and that data you collect does not measure what you intend to measure.
What is validity?
When you review sources to educate yourself on the problem you intend to investigate.
What is the review of literature?
This sociologist is famous for coming up with the theory of Dramaturgical Analysis and the concept of stigmas
Who is Erving Goffman?
Conflict Theory and Structural Functionalism are known as _____________ level perspectives.
What is Macro level perspective?
C. Wright Mills Term for explaining how one can explain human behavior by connecting them to societal issues.
What is the Sociological Imagination?
When your research can be repeated and yields the same or similar results
What is reliability?
Publishing your work in peer reviewed journal or presenting your work at a research conference represents this step.
What is the results/share step?
Developed Strain Theory which indicates there are different paths to deviance
Who is Robert Merton?
Government / Education / Law Enforcement / Family / The economy are all examples of parts of society which we refer to as ____________.
What are social institutions?
Quote by W.I. Thomas "If you believe something is real it will be real in it's consequences"
What is the Thomas Theorem?
When researchers make the mistake of letting research subjects know too much about the research they are conducting
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
When you apply the Scientific Method to solving society's problems.
What is Positivism?