Sociological Terms
the values and related behaviours of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture
Subculture
was a German philosopher and economist. He predicted that inequalities of capitalism would become so extreme that workers would eventually revolt. This would lead to the collapse of capitalism, which would be replaced by communism.
Karl Marx
Positive, negative, or no correlation: age and number of years spent in a job
Positive
Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
An assumption about how two or more variables are related; it makes a conjectural statement about the relationship between those variables.
Hypothesis
The ongoing struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
Class conflict
A German art critic who wrote widely on social and political issues as well. He took an anti-positivism stance and addressed topics such as social conflict, the function of money, individual identity in city life, and the European fear of outsiders.
Georg Simmel
A set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions, or behavior.
Theory
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
Collects data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire.
Survey
Large numbers of people who have similar income and education and work at jobs comparable in prestige
Social class
Established a sociology department in Germany at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in 1919. He wrote on many topics related to sociology including political change in Russia and social forces that affect factory workers.
Max Weber
He developed the dramaturgical approach
Erving Goffman
Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
Variable that reflects the change taking place.
Dependent variable
the lifelong social experience by which people develop their humanity and learn culture
Socialization
He helped establish sociology as a formal academic discipline by establishing the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1895 and by publishing his Rules of the Sociological Method in 1895.
Émile Durkheim
Groups encourage ____. Stop being so weird, be like the rest of us.
Conformity
Division of Labour in Society
Émile Durkheim
Testing a control group and another group to see if any changes occur.
Experiment
philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to fiormulate theories, generalization and the experiments performed in support of them
Paradigms
He named the scientific study of social patterns positivism. He described his philosophy in a series of books called "The Course in Positive Philosophy" and "A General View of Positivism"
Auguste Comte
This links our personal lives and experiences with our social world
Sociological imagination
Principles of Sociology
Herbert Spencer
Studying different TV shows and examining the values they portray.
Content analysis