Sociological Terms
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Sociological Research
100

the values and related behaviours of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture

Subculture

100

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

100

Positive, negative, or no correlation: age and number of years spent in a job

Positive 

100

Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

100

An assumption about how two or more variables are related; it makes a conjectural statement about the relationship between those variables.

Hypothesis

200

The ongoing struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat

Class conflict

200

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

200

A set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions, or behavior.

Theory

200

Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Max Weber

200

Collects data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire.

Survey

300

Large numbers of people who have similar income and education and work at jobs comparable in prestige

Social class

300

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

300

He developed the dramaturgical approach

 Erving Goffman

300

Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault

300

Variable that reflects the change taking place.

Dependent variable

400

the lifelong social experience by which people develop their humanity and learn culture

Socialization

400

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

400

Groups encourage ____. Stop being so weird, be like the rest of us.

Conformity

400

Division of Labour in Society

Émile Durkheim

400

Testing a control group and another group to see if any changes occur.

Experiment

500

philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to fiormulate theories, generalization and the experiments performed in support of them

Paradigms

500

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

500

This links our personal lives and experiences with our social world

Sociological imagination

500

Principles of Sociology

Herbert Spencer

500

Studying different TV shows and examining the values they portray.

Content analysis

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