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Scientific study of society & human interactions
What is sociology?
This change in Western Europe during the 19th century led to more access to goods & wealth by others who are not from aristocratic families
What is industrialization?
Society is examined on an individual scale looking at day-to-day interactions
What is microsociology?
Set of questions that allows researchers to gather large amounts of data from wide ranges of sources
What is surveys?
Founder of the Functionalist Theory
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Things that influence people's lives that sociology examines
What is family, ethnicity, class, gender, religion?
Was used to study & explain social order
What is science?
Society is made up of conflicting interest groups who are battling for power - this conflict is what drives social change
What is Conflict Perspective?
Used to examine information that has already been gathered through past studies
What is existing source analysis?
Founder of the Conflict Theory
Who is Karl Marx?
Applied by sociologists to assist in collecting evidence to either prove or disprove theories of human interaction
What is the scientific method?
The first to use the scientific method to study society. Also known as the father of sociology.
Who is Auguste Comte?
Society is a large connection of interdependent parts who work together to stabilize society
What is Functionalist Perspective?
Watching & recording behaviors
What is observations?
Founder of Symbolic Interaction Theory
Who is Max Weber?
Sociologists attempt to explain these
What is inequality, deviance, group dynamics, relationships, conflict, connections?
Used sociology to fight for reform & improvement in conditions for minorities & FEMALES
Who is Harriet Martineau?
Focuses on the meaning a society may connect to a thing or a group of people, etc.
What is Symbolic Interaction Perspective?
Use controlled environments to observe how an individual or group will behave in a social situation
What is experiments?
Created the Hull settlement House for volunteers to live as they tried to help those in struggling neighborhoods
Who is Jane Addams?
Creator of Social Darwinism
Who is Herbert Spencer?
This school felt a main focus of sociology should be include solutions to identified social issues such as race & urban decay
What is the Chicago School of Sociology?
Analysis of quantitative data to find relationships, causes, & correlations
What is statistical analysis?
Created the Double Consciousness Theory
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?