Vocabulary
This social science is the study of society, how people interact and social structures
What is Sociology?
One manifest function of a hospital
What is to provide healthcare?
What is diagnosing, treating, and/or managing illnesses or injuries?
He is considered the founder of sociology.
He created the Law of Three Stages, in which human history has evolved to believing that the world and its people can be investigated and understood scientifically
Who is Auguste Comte?
This theory states that society is inherently unequal and that competition between social groups (races, genders, classes) leads to conflict, which leads to change.
What is conflict theory?
Fact or Fiction: Sociology emerged as a discipline in part due to social change caused by the Industrial Revolution
FACT
This is the term for a rule established by society that has varying degrees of sanctions if violated
What is Social Norm?
One latent function of The US Government
What is social control, national unity, or economic regulation, etc.?
Laws and policies can shape cultural attitudes
Military spending indirectly boosts private-sector industries
Growth of government agencies creates jobs
He created the idea of Social Darwinism.
He believed that if people are better off it’s because they earned it, if they are struggling it’s because they didn’t try hard enough.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
This theory, a subset of conflict theory, focuses on the inequalities between the genders.
What is gender conflict theory or feminism?
Fact or Fiction: Your Social Location may include your
RACE, SOCIAL CLASS, GENDER, SEXUAL
ORIENTATION, or RELIGION
FACT
This term means to look at social life in a scientific, systematic way free from bias.
It includes seeing the general in the particular and the strange in the familiar.
What is the Sociological Perspective?
Identify 2 roles within the institution of Religion
Clergy members (Priest, Imam, Rabbi, Minister, Nun, etc.)
Worshippers/Followers
Missionaries
Religious Leaders (e.g. the Pope)
The original conflict theorist and father of Communism, he was obsessed with the imbalance of power between owners(bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat) and advocated revolution to bring about change.
Who is Karl Marx?
Someone studying how symbols communicate different things to different people is a _________________ theorist.
What is symbolic interactionist theory?
FACT OR FICTION: An example of seeing the strange in the familiar would include asking the question
Why do people shake hands?
FICTION
An example would be: "Why do we consider physically shaking hands a polite greeting, while other cultures bow or avoid physical contact altogether?"
or "Why is shaking hands as a greeting but not shaking feet?"
These are the unintended functions of a social institution like a public library or school
Latent Functions
Identify 2 subgroups within the institution of "the Media".
What are Newspapers, TV/radio News, independent blogs, social media, influencers, , sports media & other niche media, entertainment media like streaming services or broadcast TV networks?
He focused on the individual in society and was one of the first social psychologists. He advocated putting oneself in another's shoes to understand their thoughts and feelings.
He reasoned that before modern society, people’s behavior was rooted in emotions (non-rational), but now people behave based on calculations and for abstract reasons (rational), like saving now for retirement which is decades in the future
Who is Max Weber?
This theory focuses on how the elements of society work together to produce a stable social system.
What is structural functionalist theory?
FACT OR FICTION: W.E.B. DuBois' Double Consciousness Theory says that The African American holds a double identity, his own and the one placed on him by white people.
FACT
This term refers to a piece of evidence that contradicts what one has always believed or wants to believe about the social world
What is an inconvenient fact?
2x Bonus if you can identify the thinker that coined the term
Identify 2 possible dysfunctions with the institution of "Sports"
physical injury and health risks, violence/aggression/toxic competitiveness, gender inequality, Hazing within teams, High pressure coaching, Unethical coaching/training
He believed hat humanity has evolved into a complex modern society in which individuals are now interdependent and must rely on each other to "function" as a whole
Who is Emile Durkheim?
This theory focuses on how racial and ethnic inequality contributes to social problems and systemic discrimination.
Racial Conflict Theory
2x Bonus if you can name the Race Conflict Theory we discussed
FACT OR FICTION:
Gemeinschaft refers to a society based on impersonal, formal relationships, often found in modern, urban settings while Gesellschaft refers to a close-knit community based on personal, traditional, and family ties, typical of rural or small-town life.
FICTION: other way around
Gesellschaft refers to a society based on impersonal, formal relationships, often found in modern, urban settings while Gemeinschaft refers to a close-knit community based on personal, traditional, and family ties, typical of rural or small-town life.