Sociological Terms
Sociological People
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Sociological Terms Pt. 2
Sociological Research
100
A testable proposition
What is a hypothesis
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.
Who is Karl Marx
100
___ Believed societies changed due to class struggle
Who is Karl Marx
100
Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true
What is a belief
100
An assumption about how two or more variables are related; it makes a conjectural statement about the relationship between those variables.
What is a hypothesis
200
The laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs rituals and all of the cultural rules that govern social life
What are social facts?
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.
Who is Georg Simmel
200
The Ku Klux Klan is an example of___
What is Counterculture
200
An experience of personal disorientation when confronted with an unfamiliar way of life
What is culture shock
200
Collects data from subjects who respond to a series of questions about behaviors and opinions, often in the form of a questionnaire.
What is a survey
300
philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to fiormulate theories, generalization and the experiments performed in support of them
What are paradigms?
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.
Who is Max Weber
300
___views society as having a system of interdependent inherently connected parts? (Hint: Sociological Perspective)
What is Functionalism
300
Direct, appropriate behavior in the day to day practices and expressions of a culture
What is a folkway
300
the testing of a hypothesis under controlled conditions
What is an experiment
400
a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly
What is dynamic equilibrium
400
Durkheim 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. In another important work, Division of Labour in Society
Who is Émile Durkheim
400
A sociologist conducts research into the ways that Hispanic American students are historically underprivileged in the U.S. education system. The theoretical approach the sociologist uses is____
What is Conflict Theory
400
A way to encourage conformity to cultural norms
What is social control
400
gathering primary data from a natural environment without doing a lab experiment or a survey. It is a research method suited to an interpretive framework rather than to the scientific method.
What is field research
500
the social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion
What is social solidarity
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"
Who is Auguste Comte
500
Using secondary data is considered an unobtrusive or ________ research method.
What is nonreactive
500
The deliberate imposition of one's own cultural values on another culture
What is cultural imperialism
500
Sometimes referred to as an interpretive perspective, seeks to understand social worlds from the point of view of participants, which leads to in-depth knowledge. While systematic, this approach doesn’t follow the hypothesis-testing model that seeks to find generalizable results.
What is an Interpretive Framework
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