Early Sociologists
Who is the father of Sociology?
Auguste Comte
This perspective views sociology as just being about how individual people interact and the agreed upon symbols that they use.
Symbolic Interactionism
the scientific study of groups and group interactions, societies and social interactions from small personal groups to very large groups
Sociology
The function is intended by society
Manifest function
Numerical data that can be measured and statistically analyzed.
Quantitative Data
Which Sociologist wrote extensively about racial equality in the US?
W.E.B. Du Bois
This theory is all about power dynamics and a fight for resources where the more powerful take from the less powerful.
Conflict Theory
A combination of your social identities (race, religion, class, gender, sexuality etc)
Social Location
This function is unintended by society.
Latent Function
Non-numerical data focused on meanings, experiments, and descriptions.
Qualitative Data
Which sociologist is the father of Conflict Theory and Communism? He believed that all problems in society were due to the issues of the rich & poor.
Karl Marx
This theory looks at society as a bunch of different parts whose functions and aspects work together to promote stability.
The belief that society should be studied scientifically and sociologists should not apply feeling or emotion to findings.
Positivism
The is a negative consequence of an aspect of society.
Dysfunction
What's the main difference between Sociology and Psychology?
Psychology focuses on the individual while Sociology focuses on groups
Which sociologist believed in a biological model of Sociology? He also coined the term "Social Darwinism."
Herbert Spencer
This theory is the only micro level theory of the 3 perspectives.
Symbolic Interactionism
The terms that Karl Marx used to describe the working class and the rich
Making money at a job would be an example of what type of FUNCTION?
Manifest Function
Give me an example of one research method that can be used in Sociology.
survey, case study, field observation, participant observation, ethnography, experiment etc.
This sociologist cared a lot about women's issues and poverty. She is known for a famous settlement house in Chicago called Hull House.
Jane Addams
Which theory explains that social institutions are organs within the body of society, each performing a vital function?
Functionalism or Structural Functionalism
the practice of understanding social behavior by putting yourself in another's shoes
Verstehen
Perpetuating existing power structures is an example of what type of function for government/ law?
Latent Function OR Dysfunction
Why is Sociology considered a science?
Because you need to use the Scientific Method to make your observations and conclusions.