Questions
What is the sociological perspective?
[REWORK] The study and understanding of how humans are impacted by relationships, categorizations, and more.
What is global perspective?
The study of our society's place in the larger world and the larger world itself.
Which sociologist is the organic analogy mainly credited to?
Herbert Spencer
The study of larger social systems and tends to be on a grander scale is _______.
Macrosociology.
Which paradigm focuses on social inequalities, such as stratification or capitalism?
The conflict paradigm.
What is positivism?
A type of approach the the study of society that focuses on scientific evidence.
The "father of sociology".
Auguste Comte.
A ______ _______ is a social pattern that disrupts functioning society.
Social dysfunction.
Which paradigm views social change as something predictable and reinforcing?
The functionalist paradigm.
What is microsociology?
The studying of interactions between individuals and tends to be on a smaller scale.
Who studied suicide and social integration?
Émile Durkheim.
______ is the support of social equality for women and men.
2x Bonus: What paradigm would this fall under?
Feminism.
Bonus: This is a type of conflict theory, so the conflict paradigm.
Which paradigm views social order as something maintained through shared understandings?
The interactionist paradigm.
What is the concept of sociological imagination?
The awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society.
Which sociologist is associated with sociological imagination?
Wright Mills
A ____ is an idea about an aspect of the natural world that can contain laws, hypotheses, and facts.
Theory
What paradigm(s) use(s) the level of macrosociology in analysis?
Macrosociology studies large-scale social processes/interactions in society; both the functionalist and conflict paradigms.
What is debunking?
The process of revealing false or exaggerated claims, is typically used in sociological research to challenge myths or misconceptions about social phenomena.
Which sociologist is typically associated with manifest and latent functions?
Robert Merton
____ is the idea to verstehen.
To understand, developed by Max Weber