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Theoretical Perspectives
Research design
The Self and Socialization
Understanding Sociology
Noted Sociologists
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This theoretical perspective views society as a living organism in which each part of the organism contributes to its survival and stability.
What is the functionalist perspective?
100
The systematic, organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
What is the scientific method?
100
The process whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture.
What is socialization?
100
An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
What is the sociological imagination?
100
He studied suicide and related suicide rates to the extent to which people were integrated into society.
Who was Emile Durkheim?
200
This sociological perspective sees the world in a continual struggle.
What is the conflict perspective?
200
A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more factors known as variables.
What is hypothesis?
200
The distinct that sets us apart from others.
What is the self?
200
The loss of direction that is felt in a society when social control of an individual behavior has become ineffective.
What is anomie?
200
He wrote the "Communist Manifesto".
Who was Karl Marx?
300
These functions are open, stated and conscious.
What are manifest functions?
300
The term used to describe the phenomenon whereby subjects deviate from their typical behavior because they are under observation.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
300
The term used to refer to the child's awareness of attitudes, viewpoints, and expectations of society as a whole.
What is generalized other?
300
The scientific study of social behavior and human groups.
What is Sociology?
300
He developed the concept of the "looking glass self".
Who is Charles Horton Cooley?
400
This perspective generalizes about every day forms of social interaction in order to understand society as a whole.
What is the interactionist perspective?
400
A study, generally in the form of a questionnaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act.
What is a survey?
400
The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
What is resocialization?
500
The element or process of a society that may actually disrupt the social system or reduce its stability.
What is a dysfunction?
500
The variable that is hypothesized to cause or influence another variable.
What is the independent variable?
500
The concept that emphasizes the self as a product of our social interactions.
What is "looking glass self"?
500
The term we use to describe the experience of a division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities.
What is double consciousness?
500
He taught his students to employ "verstehen".
Who is Max Weber?