Founders
The Founder of Sociology
Who is Auguste Comte?
a quantitative research method used to collect standardized data from a sample of individuals regarding their opinions, behaviors, attitudes, or characteristics.
survey
Statement of how and why specific facts are related
What is a Theory?
The start of the development of sociology
the industrial revolution
The ways of acting and the material objects that forms a people's way of life
What is culture?
this theorist introduced double conciousness
W.E.B Du Bois
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?
This theory, developed by Robert K. Merton, argues that deviance occurs when there is a mismatch between culturally accepted goals and the legitimate means to achieve them.
strain theory
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?
Cannot participate in this without changing the data
naturalistic observation
This type of group is characterized by close, personal, and long-lasting relationships, such as family and close friends.
primary groups
Society as the product of everyday interactions of individuals
What is The Symbolic-Interaction Approach?
language changes based on the person's perspective
Spair Whorf Theory