SOCA 101 EXAM 1WVU BREWSTER
Sociology - Answer- study of human social relationships, individual and society
Social Imagination - Answer- the ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and the larger social forces that help to shape them
agency - Answer- the ability to think...
auguste comte - Answer- father of sociology, argued for empirical approach, social
stats
dynamics - Answer- laws that govern change
positivism - Answer- accurate knowledge must be based on science
Harriet Martineau - Answer- 1st american, focus on gender and slavery
max weber - Answer- rationalization, importance of ideas and leaders
Verstehen (Weber) - Answer- understanding social behavior by putting yourself in
the place of others
Karl Marx - Answer- social development, capitalism development, class conflict
Emile Durkheim - Answer- social order, division of labor, social integration
mechanical solidarity - Answer- bonds based on similarity
organic solidarity - Answer- bonds based on specialization and interdependence
W.E.B. DuBois - Answer- 1st black sociologist, used community studies, African
American double consciousness
Jane Addams - Answer- Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the
working class, studied gender, race, class
Sociological Theory - Answer- a set of ideas that explains a range of human
behavior and a variety of social and societal events
, Macro-level paradigm - Answer- large-scale patterns and institutions, country divorce
rate
Micro-level paradigm - Answer- social relations and interactions in specific, individual
situations, family patterns
which are micro - Answer- symbolic interactionism
which are macro - Answer- functionalism, social conflict paradigm
functionalism - Answer- 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 - Answer- purposes or activities to meet stability
Dysfunctions - Answer- social patterns that have a negative impact on a group or
society
Talcott Parsons - Answer- gender roles, men are instrument women are expressive
social conflict paradigm - Answer- issues of power and inequality and competition of
resources; understates degree of stability
Symbolic Interactionism - Answer- Approach that focuses on the interactions among
people based on mutually understood symbols; overstates subjectivity
Sociological Research - Answer- examines human behavior
deductive reasoning - Answer- general to specific
inductive reasoning - Answer- specific to general
basic research - Answer- advances knowledge of an aspect of society
applied research - Answer- directly focuses on helping to solve or evaluate a specific
real-world problem
public sociology - Answer- applying sociology for the public good
common wisdom - Answer- a generally accepted account of something, usually
without scientific proof
concepts - Answer- terms used to summarize a set of phenomena
operational definition - Answer- defines concept to make it measurable
variable - Answer- concept with 2 or more possible values
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