Culture
Symbols, language, values, and norms are components of this type of culture?
What is nonmaterial culture?
This German economist believed that conflict, especially class conflict, is necessary to produce social change and a better society.
Who is Karl Marx?
Because of its broad view of society, which level of analysis is the functionalist theory?
What is a macro-level analysis?
This research is more likely to be used when the research question does not easily lend itself to numbers and statistical methods.
What is a qualitative research model?
A large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
What is a society?
The practice of judging all other cultures by one's own culture.
What is ethnocentrism?
This French philosopher coined the term "sociology."
Who is Auguste Comte?
The term for the way in which a person's sense of self is derived from the perceptions of others.
The process of systematically collecting information for the purpose of testing an existing theory or generating a new one.
What is research?
The systematic study of human society and social interaction.
What is Sociology?
Technology, books, tanks, guns, and computers are example of this type of culture.
What is material cuture?
This early thinker is considered to be the "founder of sociology".
Per this theoretical perspective, society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups.
What is the symbolic interactionist theory/perspective?
The process of systematically collecting information for the purpose of testing an existing theory or generating a new one.
What is research or sociological research?
The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society.
What is the Sociological imagination?
Consists of activities, products, and services that are assumed to appeal primarily to members of the middle and working classes, like rock concerts, spectator sports, movies, etc.
What is popular or "pop" culture?
Who was Jane Adams?
Today, advocates of this perspective view social life as a continuous power struggle among competing social groups.
What is the conflict perspective or theory?
This study conducted in US between 1932 and 1972 resulted in a strengthening codes of sociological research because of its dishonesty and brutality (including death) inflicted upon its human subjects.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
The process by which societies are transformed from dependence on agriculture and handmade products to an emphasis on manufacturing and related industries.
What is Industrialization?
What a culture uses that meaningfully represents something else.
This researcher founded two academic journals among his many accomplishments and created a laboratory of sociology. He was the first scholar to note that a dual heritage (being both black and American) creates conflict for people of color.
Who is Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois?
Per this theory, a society is composed of interrelated parts (social institutions) each of which serves a function and contributes to the overall stability of a society.
What is the functionalist perspective?
A carefully designed situation in which the researcher studies the effect of certain variables on subjects' attitudes or behavior.
What is an experiment?
The hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control of basic resources.