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This social thinker felt that religion was the opium of the masses.
Who was Karl Marx?
This was the first building to be erected on the OLLU campus in 1895.
What is the Main Building?
In this view of society, all social positions are based solely on merit.
What is a meritocracy?
When using this type of logic, a research first gathers data and then moves towards general theory.
What is inductive logic?
Close friends, parents, siblings, or a spouse would be considered members of this type of group, according to Charles Horton Cooley.
What is a primary group?
This social thinker viewed society as a reality sui generis.
Who was Emile Durkheim?
This is the religious order of nuns that founded OLLU.
What is the Sisters of the Congregation of Divine Providence?
This concept involves buying and using products because of the "statement" they make.
What is conspicuous consumption?
This refers to a type of sample drawn from a population so that every element has a known chance of being selected.
What is a random sample?
These refer to the organized, usual, or standard ways by which society meets its basic needs.
What are social institutions?
This social thinker was known for demonstrating the growing importance of rationality in modern life.
Who was Max Weber?
In its original existence when it opened in 1896, this was the only population OLLU served.
What are high school girls?
According to this theory by Robert Merton, deviance results when the institutionalized means given to us to reach the culturally defined goals do not work as planned.
What is strain theory?
This phenomenon explains why research subjects might change their behavior because of their awareness of being studied.
What is the Hawethorne effect?
According to this theorem, if people believe it to true, then it is true in its consequences.
What is the Thomas Theorem?
This social thinker is perhaps best remembered for his use of dramaturgical analysis.
Who was Erving Goffman?
OLLU was the early home to and the birthplace of this important organization, the acronym for which is HACU, making it the first of these in the world.
What is the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities?
This is an idea developed by a group of people for a particular purpose, such as gender or race.
What is a social construct?
This document established respect for persons, beneficence, and justice as the three pillars of ethical human subject research.
What is the Belmont Report?
According to this thesis, people perceive the world through the cultural lens of language.
What is the Sapir-Whorf thesis?
This social thinker felt that society evolved like in the natural world, and only the fittest should survive.
Who was Herbert Spencer?
In 1968, this foundational and important meeting was held in OLLU's auditorium.
What was the US Commission on Civil Rights Hearing on Mexican Americans in the Southwest?
This tool, developed by Emory Bogardus, can be used to measure the degree of closeness people feel towards members from a diverse social, ethnic, or racial background.
What is a social distance scale?
The conditions for cause and effect to be considered include correlation, time order, and control for this.
What is spuriousness?
According to George Herbert Mead, this developed as our perception of how other people in general think.
What is the generalized other?