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Foundations
Vocabulary
Perspective
Investigation
Wild Card
100
Defined as the systematic study of human society
What is SOCIOLOGY
100
Study of the larger world and our society's place in it.
What is GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
100
Sociological Approach: to social patterns for the operation and function of society.
What is the STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH
100
Holding all of your variables constant except for one to test for a correlation
What is CONTROL
100
Trying to adopt a stance of personal neutrality toward the outcome of the research
What is OBJECTIVITY
200
Coined the term Sociology in 1838.
Who is August Comte.
200
A statement that explains how and why specific facts are related.
What is a THEORY.
200
The sociological approach of how people construct meaning in their interaction.
What is the SYMBOLIC INTERACTION APPROACH
200
Evidence that we can verify scientifically with our senses
What is EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.
200
Research that does not stop to think about the possible importance of gender.
What is GENDER BLINDNESS.
300
Industrialization, Growth of Cities, Political Revolution
What is the Perfect Storm- that gave birth to Sociology.
300
A way of understanding society based on science.
What is POSITIVISM.
300
About 1900.
What is the date sociology because established as an academic discipline.
300
Measuring what you actually intended to measure.
What is VALIDITY.
300
A change in a subject’s behavior caused by the awareness of being studied.
What is the HAWTHORNE EFFECT
400
Looking at the world using the sociological perspective and being curious (nosy) and asking questions.
What is Sociological Investigation
400
When two (or more) variables change together.
What is CORRELATION.
400
A positivist who believed there were laws of society similar to laws of physics that can be used to understand society.
Who is Auguste Comte.
400
A false correlation between two variables caused by a third variable.
What is a “spurious” correlation
400
A small number of people that are used to represent a much larger population
What is a SAMPLE
500
Seeing the general in the particular- looking for patterns in the behavior of particular people.
What is SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE.
500
The activists study of society in order to bring about social change.
What is CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY
500
Structural-functional, social-conflict, symbolic-interaction
What is the THREE BASIC THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO SOCIOLOGY.
500
The process of deciding exactly what is to be measured when assigning value to a variable.
What is "Operationalizing"
500
The influence of human behaviors, thoughts, feelings and values on research.
What is the HUMAN EFFECT