Founders
The Founder of Sociology
Who is Auguste Comte?
A systematic observation of social behavior
What is positivism or positivist sociology?
Statement of how and why specific facts are related
What is a Theory?
Three changes in the development of Sociology
1. What is the rise of a factory-based industrial economy?
2. What is the explosive growth of cities?
3. What is new ideas about democracy & political rights?
The ways of acting and the material objects that forms a people's way of life
What is culture?
This theorist stated that our social structure has many functions, (manifest and latent functions)
Who is Robert K. Merton?
A concept whose value changes from case to case
What is a Variable?
The systematic study of human society
What is Sociology?
An approach states that society is a complex system; parts work together to promote solidarity and stability
What is The Structural-Functional Approach?
Symbols, language, values and norms
What are "Common Elements of Culture?
She introduced feminism
Who is Harriet Martineau?
The variable that causes the change
What is the Independent Variable?
Explanation of the differences of categories of people who were more likely than others to take their own lives
What is social integration?
He wrote the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Who is Max Weber?
Equal opportunity, Achievement and success, material comfort, science, democracy and free enterprise, progress, practicality and efficiency, progress, freedom and racism and group superiority
What are the key values of U.S. culture?
He identified Several Social Classes
Who is Karl Marx?
A "statement" of a possible relationship between two variables
What is a hypothesis?
Through economic crisis, i.e. job loss, helps individuals understand not only their society but also their own lives through "wanting to change it"
What is the "Sociological Imagination"?
Society is an arena of inequality
What is The Social-Conflict Approach?
Judging another culture by the standards of ones own culture
What is Ethnocentrism?
The first to teach a sociology course at a university
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Subjects' behaviors changed after getting special attention
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
Focuses on the meaning people attach to their social world
What is Interpretive Sociology?
Society as the product of everyday interactions of individuals
What is The Symbolic-Interaction Approach?
A perspective promoting equal standing for all cultures in the United States
What is Multiculturalism?