auguste comte CORRECT ANSWERS father of sociology, argued for empirical
approach, social stats
dynamics CORRECT ANSWERS laws that govern change
positivism CORRECT ANSWERS accurate knowledge must be based on science
Harriet Martineau CORRECT ANSWERS 1st american, focus on gender and slavery
max weber CORRECT ANSWERS rationalization, importance of ideas and leaders
Verstehen (Weber) CORRECT ANSWERS understanding social behavior by putting
yourself in the place of others
Karl Marx CORRECT ANSWERS social development, capitalism development, class
conflict
Emile Durkheim CORRECT ANSWERS social order, division of labor, social integration
mechanical solidarity CORRECT ANSWERS bonds based on similarity
, organic solidarity CORRECT ANSWERS bonds based on specialization and
interdependence
W.E.B. DuBois CORRECT ANSWERS 1st black sociologist, used community studies,
African American double consciousness
Jane Addams CORRECT ANSWERS Social reformer who worked to improve the lives
of the working class, studied gender, race, class
Sociological Theory CORRECT ANSWERS a set of ideas that explains a range of
human behavior and a variety of social and societal events
Macro-level paradigm CORRECT ANSWERS large-scale patterns and institutions,
country divorce rate
Micro-level paradigm CORRECT ANSWERS social relations and interactions in
specific, individual situations, family patterns
which are micro CORRECT ANSWERS symbolic interactionism
which are macro CORRECT ANSWERS functionalism, social conflict paradigm
functionalism CORRECT ANSWERS society is a system of interconnected parts that
work together in harmony to maintain a state of balance and social equilibrium for the
whole; underplays power differences between classes
functions CORRECT ANSWERS purposes or activities to meet stability
Dysfunctions CORRECT ANSWERS social patterns that have a negative impact on a
group or society
Talcott Parsons CORRECT ANSWERS gender roles, men are instrument women are
expressive
social conflict paradigm CORRECT ANSWERS issues of power and inequality and
competition of resources; understates degree of stability
Symbolic Interactionism CORRECT ANSWERS Approach that focuses on the
interactions among people based on mutually understood symbols; overstates
subjectivity
Sociological Research CORRECT ANSWERS examines human behavior
deductive reasoning CORRECT ANSWERS general to specific
inductive reasoning CORRECT ANSWERS specific to general
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