Sociologists
This person was responsible for conflict theory and communism
A testable proposition
What is a Hypothesis?
The conflict theory suggests that society is structured in this particular shape
What is a pyramid?
A group’s shared practices, values, and beliefs
What is Culture
The lowest amount in which an employer can pay its employees
What is the Minimum Wage
This person analyzed the dynamics of two-person and three-person groups and emphasized the capacity of an individual’s capability
Who is Georg Simmel?
the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life
What are social facts?
Views society in a struggle for scarce resources
What is the conflict theory
A group of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another and who share a common culture
What is a society?
The level of analysis of Symbolic Interactionalism
What is Micro-level analysis?
This person was considered to be the first feminist thinker
Who is Mary Wollstone Craft?
The scientific study of social patterns
What is positivism?
Views society as a system of interrelated parts that compliments one another
What is functionalism
Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society
What are dysfunctions?
The period when thinkers such as John Locke, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, and Thomas Hobbes responded to what they saw as social ills by writing on topics that they hoped would lead to social reform.
What is the Age of Enlightenment?
This person was responsible for the widespread use of the word sociology
Who is Auguste Comte?
A stable state in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly
What is Dynamic Equilibrium?
Suggests that our understanding of the world around us comes from others
What is symbolic interactionism
An error of treating an abstract concept as though it has real material existence
What is reification?
First recognized social dynamics as an underlying component of historical development in his seminal encyclopedia, General Study of Literary Remains.
Whos is Ma Tuan-Lin?
This person applied the theory of evolution to sociology
Who is Herbert Spencer?
Philosophical and theoretical framework used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
What is a Paradigm?
Results when the members of society share common definitions of what is appropriate
What is social order
A technique sociologists use in which they view society through the metaphor of theatrical performance
Dramaturgical Analysis
The Clarks helped the supreme court end this law on segregation.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?