Theorists
Who was one of the coauthors of the Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx
The term culture refers to a groups shared practices, values, and what?
Beliefs
One of the most widely used scientific research method is called what?
Surveys
What are the three sociological paradigms?
Structural functionalism, conflict theory , and symbolic interaction.
What does value refer to in sociology?
Ideals or principles and standards that members of a culture hold in high regard.
The term sociology was first coined in 1780. In 1838, who reintroduced the term?
Auguste Comte
Cultural universals are what?
Patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies?
“Do you like dogs”, is an example of what questions?
A closed ended question.
What is structural functionalism?
The way each part of society functions together to contribute to the functioning of the whole.
The standards society would like to embrace and live up to is what?
Ideal culture.
Who helped establish sociology as a formal academic disciplin by establishing the first European department of sociology at the university of Bordeaux?
Émile Durkheim
When people find themselves in a new culture, they make experience disorientation and frustration, this is called what?
Culture shock
Gathering primary data from a natural environment refers to what?
Field research.
What is conflict theory?
The way inequities and inequalities contribute to social, political, and power differences, and how they perpetuate power.
What is the American dream?
Anyone who works hard enough will be successful and wealthy.
Who wrote the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalis?
Max Weber
Xenocentrism is the opposit of..
Ethnocentrism
Who conducted a form of study called Participant Observation?
Rothman
What is symbolic interaction?
The way one on one interactions and communications behave.
Values often suggest how people should behave but..
They don’t accurately affect how people do behave.
Who is best known as the founder of social ecology?
Robert E. Park
Sapir-Whorf is what?
How language shaped our perception of reality, and our behavior.
When people change their behavior because they know they are being watched as part of a study is called what?
Hawthorn Effect
What was a dominant force commonly associated with structural functionalism?
World War 2.
One of the ways societies strive to maintain its values is through…
Rewards and punishments