People
Question: Marx's term for the working class.
Answer: What is the Proletariat?
What is socialization?
Socialization is the lifelong social experience by which people develop their humanity and learn culture.
What is the difference between macro and micro sociology?
Macrosociology analyzes social life by focusing on the broad features of society, while microsociology analyzes social life by focusing on social interaction.
Question: This theory emphasizes the role of power and coercion in producing social order.
Answer: What is Conflict Theory?
Question: The book where Marx and Engels outlined their theories.
Answer: What is The Communist Manifesto?
Which concept suggests that we are who we are mostly because of of genetics?
What is nature.
Provide a definition of social class. Remember the three elements that usually signifies social class.
Large numbers of people who have similar income and education and work at jobs comparable in prestige
Answer: What is Positivism?
What are the three main theoretical frameworks in Sociology?
Conflict Theory Functionalist Theory Symbolic Interactionist Theory
Question: This term describes the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
Answer: What is Class Conflict?
Question: Coworkers and classmates are examples of this type of group. (primary or secondary)
What are Secondary Groups?
Question: This term refers to the shared symbols and meanings that people use to communicate.
Answer: What are Social Symbols?
Emile Durkheim conducted the first study that shows how social forces affect people's behaviour. This study identified that a lack of social integration may lead to this.
What is suicide.
Question: This framework examines how individuals and groups interact, focusing on the meanings and symbols they use.
Answer: What is Symbolic Interactionism?
What is subculture
Subculture - the values and related behaviours of a group that distinguish its members from the larger culture
Question: This type of group plays a crucial role in the socialization process.
Answer: What is a Primary Group?
Question: This type of group plays a crucial role in the socialization process.
Answer: What is a Primary Group?
Question: Weber's term for the Protestant work ethic and its role in the developQuestion: Weber's term for the Protestant work ethic and its role in the development of capitalism. ment of capitalism.
Answer: What is The Protestant Ethic?
Describe at least one of the three main events which set the stage for the emergence of Sociology.
1. Industrial Revolution 2. French Revolution 3. Imperialism
Question: This framework views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote stability.
Answer: What is Functionalism?
Question: The concept that our self-concept is influenced by how we think others perceive us.
Answer: What is the Looking-Glass Self?
What do we mean by a sociological framework
What is an organizing theory by which our sociological ideas and observations can be classified, organized and provide explanation.