Research
This type of research uses numerical data
Quantitative Research
This person is known as the father of psychology.
Who is Auguste Comte?
Auguste Comte coined this perspective, meaning we should be “positive” about what we are studying in sociology.
What is positivism?
This is the name of the house that Jane Addams created to help poor Americans.
What is the Hull House?
This type of research uses narrative and descriptive data.
What is Qualitative Data?
According to Karl Marx, this is what the wealthy class is called.
What is the bourgeoise?
This perspective emphasizes the contributions of each part of a society.
What is functionalism?
Wanted to help poor Americans make better lives for themselves.
Who is Jane Addams?
This type of survey is done by letting the participant answer the questions on their own.
What is a questionnaire?
This woman outsold Charles Dickens with her book, Sociology in America.
Who is Harriet Martineau?
This perspective emphasizes conflict, competition, change, and constraint within a society.
What is conflict perspective?
This African American sociologist believed that blacks should embrace segregation.
What is an interview?
This sociologist believed that if you are not contributing to society, that you should die.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
This is the theoretical approach that emphasizes interactions among people based on their understood symbols.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Believed that to solve the “Negro Problem”, blacks must work to get educated and get professional jobs in order to be taken seriously.
This type of research happens in a non-laboratory setting.
What is field research?
This sociologist believed that society must come to a verstehen, meaning we must see the world through each others' eyes.
Who is Max Weber?
This is the belief that human interaction is a theatrical performance.
What is dramaturgy?
This sociologist believed that our sense of self develops as we interact with our world through language, symbols, and communication.
Who is George Herbert Mead?