Vocabulary
This field is the systematic study of society and social interaction.
What is Sociology?
Known for positivism and often associated with naming sociology as a scientific field.
Who is Auguste Comte?
This major period of factories, machines, urban growth, and changing work helped create new questions about society.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This perspective views society as interconnected parts that contribute to stability and order.
What is the Functionalist Perspective?
Students use the word "cool" differently depending on their group. Which perspective best examines the shared meaning of the word?
What is the Interactionist Perspective?
This social science focuses mainly on the mind and individual behavior, while sociology emphasizes social groups and patterns.
What is Psychology?
This level of analysis examines small groups and everyday face-to-face interactions.
What is the Micro-Level?
This early sociologist translated Comte’s work and examined society, inequality, women, and social life.
Who is Harriet Martineau?
A testable prediction about the relationship between variables is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
This perspective focuses on competition over power and resources, inequality, and social change.
What is Conflict Perspective?
A researcher studies graduation rates across an entire state. Is this macro-level or micro-level sociology?
What is Macro-Level sociology?
This term describes expected rules of behavior within a group or situation.
What is Social Norms?
This term describes shared beliefs, values, behaviors, language, symbols, and practices of a group.
What is Culture?
This sociologist focused on class conflict, inequality, power, and struggles over resources.
Who is Karl Marx?
Name ONE evidence-gathering method sociologists may use to study society.
What are observations, surveys, interviews, experiments, or data analysis?
This perspective studies symbols, language, meanings, and everyday interactions.
What is the Interactionist Perspective?
Two neighborhoods have unequal access to high-quality schools. A sociologist asks who has power and who benefits. Which perspective?
What is the Conflict Perspective?
Explain ONE way sociology could help someone in healthcare, education, business, law, or another career.
It can help them understand social systems, diverse backgrounds, group behavior, communication, patterns, and institutions.
This concept connects personal experiences to larger social and historical forces.
What is Sociological Imagination?
This sociologist studied social facts, social solidarity, and social integration.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Why does sociology use evidence instead of relying only on opinions about society?
To test claims systematically and make evidence-based conclusions about social patterns and behavior.
A school’s intended purpose of educating students is this type of function.
What is a Manifest Function?
A student gets a tattoo. Give TWO sociological factors that could influence the decision.
Examples: culture, peer group, family, identity, norms, group membership, or the meaning attached to the tattoo.
A student struggles to find a part-time job. Use sociological imagination to name ONE larger social factor that could matter.
Examples: local job availability, economic conditions, transportation, school schedule, hiring practices, social networks, or community resources.
Treating a human-created social arrangement as if it were natural, fixed, or unchangeable is called this.
What is Reification?
This sociologist is strongly associated with verstehen, understanding social action from the actor’s point of view.
Who is Max Weber?
A sociologist predicts: Students involved in school activities will report stronger school connection.' What makes this statement scientific?
It is a testable hypothesis that can be investigated with observable or measurable evidence.
A student says school can also create friendships even though that is not its main stated purpose. This is this type of function.
What is Latent Function?
Functionalism and conflict theory study the same school. How would their questions differ?
Functionalism asks how the school contributes to stability/functions; conflict theory asks how power, inequality, and access to resources shape outcomes.
Create a sociological research question about your school that focuses on a group, pattern, institution, culture, or social issue.
Answers vary. It must be researchable and focus on a social pattern/group/institution rather than only one individual.