A set of written questions that are either given respondents to complete or are posted to them
Questionnaires
100
Author of Communist Manifesto. His theories about society, economics and politics are collectively known as Marxism.
Karl Marx
100
Sees society working as a whole and each individual part played is important to the functions of society
Functionalism
100
Class, gender, ethnicity and age.
The 4 important social divisions.
100
Quantitative
Data represented stratistically
200
Designed to allow respondents to give their own answers to questions
Open-ended questions
200
Founding figure of the field of sociology best known for his essay "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"
Max Weber
200
Focuses on women in a patriarchal society and the unfair representation of women
Feminist
200
Some people are better placed in society than others in terms of income, wealth and power.
Inequality.
200
The "layering" of the society.
Social stratification.
300
To represent as exactly as possible one or many of the social characteristics of members of the sampling frame.
Stratified Random Sampling
300
Sociologist recognized for his studies of Social Mobility in Great Britain with the use of the Hall-Jones Seale
David Glass
300
Focuses on inequality in society based on the economy
Marxism
300
Gender.
The “inequality” that is evident in all walks of life.
300
The overall group from whom the sample is drawn.
Sampling frame.
400
Usually associated with a structuralist approach to sociology and the contributions of Ferdinand de Saussure and Claude Levi-Strauss
Seminology
400
American analytical Marxist sociologist specializing in social gratification. Current president of the American Sociological Association
Erik Olin Wright
400
Has no qualitative data, doesn't see how individuals act in society
Functionalism
400
A form of differentiation that is hereditary and extremely rigid.
The caste system.
400
Data that sociologists have generated themselves for sociological and experimental purposes.
Primary data.
500
Had the role of film, advertising, television
Robert Hodge and David Tripp
500
American sociologist known for his development of a general theory for the study of society called action theory and his most famous work: The Structure of Social Action
Talcott Parsons
500
Says individuals should do what they want because no one has the right answer
Post Modernist
500
Individuals taking on the norms and values of the middle class.
The embourgeoisement.
500
A belief that something is good or valuable. It defines what is acceptable.