What Is Sociology?
The ability of an individual or group to influence or control the actions, beliefs, or behaviors of others to achieve their own will.
What is Power?
An issue that affects many people, not just individuals.
What is a Social Problem?
These three perspectives are how Sociologists study social problems.
What is Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Structural Functionalism?
This person established Sociology as a discipline as well as introducing Positivism.
Who was Auguste Comte?
Ideas and beliefs (such as language and traditions) practiced within a society.
What is Non-Material Culture?
The scientific study of human society and social relationships.
What are Social Sciences?
Two systems our society has implemented to reduce crime.
What are (any two of the following) the police, courts, prisons, prevention programs?
These are fundamental, established structures of rules and behaviors that organize society to meet basic needs.
What are Institutions?
The three dimensions of Max Weber's assessment of Social Stratification.
What is Wealth, Prestige, and Power?
This is the relationship between things you are born with and things you learn through your environment.
What is Nature vs Nurture?
A Claim supported by Evidence that can be checked and measured.
What is a Fact?
These attributes affect the variability of crime.
What is Time, Place, and Social Group?
Theory introduced by Durkheim that claimed that society is made up of a system of parts which all serve a specific function.
What is Structural Functionalism?
This sociologist believed there are external, coercive patterns of behavior, thought, and feeling (like laws/morals) that can be studied scientifically.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
Things like Individualism, Equality, Freedom, and Achievement are all examples of this.
What are Cultural Values?
An in-depth study of a specific experiment or person.
What is a Case Study?
These are the focus of Sociologists when examining crime Sociologically.
What are Patterns?
This micro-level perspective focuses on the everyday interactions and shared meanings that people create.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
Karl Marx believed that class conflict stemmed from the competition of upper and lower classes over this resource.
What is the Means of Production?
A society made up of only a specific group of people that share the same language, Culture, and Regional Traditions
What is a Homogeneous society?
The five prolific Social Sciences.
What are History, Economics, Psychology, Political Science, and Sociology?
The three contributing factors to Crime in the Routine Activity Theory.
What are Likely Offender, Suitable Target, and Absence of a Capable Guardian?
While Structural Functionalism emphasizes consensus and stability, this perspective emphasizes competition and inequality.
What is Conflict Theory?
Auguste Comte's approached the study of social problems by using this.
What is the Scientific Method?
These are strong moral norms which have severe consequences if broken.
What are Mores?