Intro to Sociology
The scientific and systematic study of groups and group interactions, from small and personal groups to very large groups.
What is the scientific method?
Coined the term “survival of the fittest…the preservation of favored races in a struggle for life.”
Who is Herbert Spencer?
This is the first step in the six prescribed steps established over centuries of scientific scholarship.
What is ask a question or define the problem?
This study conducted in 1932 looked how untreated syphilis would affect the African American male.
What is the Tuskegee Experiment?
Mr. Drabczyk attended this high school in Frederick County.
What is Walkersville High School?
Shared practices, values, social rules and norms, and beliefs.
What is culture?
This conflict theorist played in an important role in an attempt to increase rights for Black people, and became a leader in what was known as the “Niagara Movement.”
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
An explanation of a phenomenon based on conjecture about the relationship between the phenomenon and one or more causal factors.
What is a hypothesis?
Jane Adams founded this establishment in 1889 to help needy immigrants through social and educational programs in Chicago
What is Hull House?
Mr. Drabczyk got his bachelor of arts in secondary education from this University.
What is Shepherd University?
An awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions.
What is the sociological Imagination (C Wright Mills)?
This theorist examined suicide statistics, and attributed the differences to socio-religious forces rather than to individual or psychological causes.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Specific explanations of abstract concepts that a researcher plans to study. Used by researchers to replicate research methods.
What are operational definitions?
Social processes that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society, such as truency, dropping out, not graduating, and not finding suitable employment.
What are dysfuntions?
This song is the first song that Mr. Drabczyk usually plays for his students.
What is the House on Pooh Corner by Kenny Loggins?
Social forces and influences that put pressure on people to select one choice over another.
What are cultural patterns?
He introduced the concept “Verstehen,” a German word that translates to understanding something in a deep way. He believed that the beliefs of Protestants and Calvinists led to a rise in capitalism.
Who is Max Weber?
A sociological research approach that seeks in-depth understanding of a topic through observation or interaction; not based on hypothesis testing.
What is field research?
This paradigm looks from a micro-level, focusing on the relationships among individuals within a society. An example would be studying how we communicate with one another.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Mr. Drabczyk was a member of a Maryland High School state championship, winning team in this sport.
What is basketball?
The way each part of society functions together to contribute to the functioning of the whole.
What is strucural functionalism?
Karl Marx believed that this group would revolt against the “bourgeois,” and that they were exploited by them.
Who is the proletariat?
A practice of remaining impartial, without bias or judgement during the course of the study and in publishing results.
What is value neutrality?
This study in 1961 had people assigned to the role of “teacher,” administering electric shocks (weren’t really, they just believed they were!) to people assigned to the role of “learners.”
What was the Stanley Milgrim "Obedience Experiment?"
Mr. Drabczyk often wears the jersey of this NFL player (his favorite!)
Who is Josh Allen #17 of the Buffalo Bills?