The corners of life that people occupy such as jobs, income, education, gender, age, and race are referred to as
What is Social Location
100
The sociological perspective emphasizes how the social context influences people’s lives, particularly how people are influenced by
What is Society
100
The theorist who is sometimes referred to as "the second founder of sociology" was
Who is Herbert Spencer
100
The scientific method requires ________, repeating a study in order to compare the new research results with the original findings.
What is replication
100
The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, who spent his lifetime studying race relations in America and was one of the founders of the NAACP, was ________
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
200
Anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology are all appropriately classified as
What are Social Sciences
200
The sociologist responsible for suggesting the connection between history and biography to explain the sociological imagination was
Who is C. Wright Mills
200
Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is
What is class conflict
200
Max Weber used the term Verstehen to mean
What is to grasp by insight, to understand
200
More than twenty years prior to the birth of Durkheim and Weber, Society in America, an analysis of American social customs, was published by sociologist ________.
Who is Harriet Martineau
300
Herbert Spencer believed the most capable and intelligent members of a society would survive while the weak and "less fit" would die, thus improving society, in a master plan that he called "survival of the fittest."
What is Social Darwinism
300
Biology is most appropriately classified as a natural _______.
What is science.
300
The social thinker of the 19th century who predicted that there would be a classless society once the working class united and began a revolution was
Who is Karl Marx
300
Durkheim referred to patterns of behavior that characterize a social group as
What is Social Facts
300
Sociologists who analyze how social life depends on the ways that people define themselves and others are most likely ________.
What is Symbolic Interactionism
400
True or False? Emile Durkheim identified the degree of social integration as the primary variable to explain different rates of suicide within different European nations.
What is True
400
The first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life was
Who is Auguste Comte
400
The titles Karl Marx used to describe the two classes in society were the ________ and the ________.
What is Bourgeoisies and Proletartiats
400
Because of her outstanding contributions to social reform, as demonstrated in her work as co-founder of Hull-House, ________ was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Who is Jane Addams
400
Functionalists refer to how parts of a society fit together to form a whole as ________.
What is a structure
500
The concept that describes opening a window into unfamiliar worlds that allows us to understand human behavior by placing it within its broader social context is called
What is The Sociological Perspective
500
the use of objective and systematic observation to test theories, one that is often employed by sociologists
What is the Scientific Method
500
Max Weber referred to the self-denying approach to life characterized by people living frugal lives and saving their money as the
What is Protestant Ethic
500
Karl Marx believed that ________ was the central force for social change, while Max Weber believed that ________ was the force most responsible for social change.
What is Economics, Religion
500
Sociology first took root as an academic discipline at _______ in 1890