Sociological Thinkers
By the Book
How to Sociologist
Course Concepts
Miscelleanous
100

The 19th century thinker who came up with the categories of the "bourgeoisie" and the "proletariat"

Karl Marx

100

The group the Nacirema text was actually about

Americans

100

The specific element that make up the society that sociologists study

social facts

100

The element of culture that represents what is important to a group

Value

100

The specific food item created to lessen sexual urges and inappropriate sexual behavior referenced by Alvarado-Strasser in the first class lecture

Graham Crackers

200

The 19th century sociologist who explained the growth of capitalism through religious roots

Max Weber

200

The gendered characteristic that parents of both boys and girls steered their children away from according to Emily Kane

Femininity
200

The time period that sociologists always look to in order to understand the current social structure

The past

200

The process by which we learn the expectations of our social group and internalize its beliefs

socialization

200

The number of people required to constitute a "society"

three

300

The sociologist who created the idea of social facts and was obsessed with social cohesion

Emile Durkheim

300

According to Deber and Margass, this system encourages bullying--both in the workplace and the playground

capitalism

300

The two different ways of envisioning a problem

A personal trouble and a social issue

300

The two criteria we can use to determine if something is socially constructed

Does it change over time and space?

300

The type of essay organizational feature that Alvarado-Strasser cannot get students to use

paragraphs

400

The sociologist who produced the idea of the "looking glass self"

Charles Horton Cooley

400

The name of one of the two policies responsible for the contemporary homelessness crisis, according to Lillian Rubin

The Federal Housing Act of 1949

The Community Mental Health Services Act

400

The ability to inhabit someone else's perspective in order to ask yourself why you would have done the same thing as them

Muscular empathy

400

The four criteria that must be met for something to be a social fact

empirical, external, coercive and made up of other social facts

400

The background network of knowledge that a person has on a given topic; something you can activate before reading a text

schema

500

The very last sociologist you read this semester who came up with the concept of "the sociological imagination" in his piece "The Promise"

C.W. Mills

500

Weber observed that certain Protestant groups, who were very successful capitalists, had this belief system, which valued efficiency, uniformity, calculability, and predictability.

Rationality

500
The two types of methodologies that sociologists can use to research a question
Quantitative and Qualitative
500

The sociological framework that studies how people make meaning through their interactions with other people

symbolic interactionism

500
The type of solidarity that exists when people are similar to one another and see themselves as part of a collective

mechanical