Sociology Test

Science or study of origin, development, organization, and functioning of a human society.

Society affects the way humans interact.

A way of looking at reality, the familiar is the objective you take it for granted as real because social reality is socially constructed

American Sociologist who defined the sociological perspective as the ability to view the world from two distinct yet complementary perspectives: seeing the general in the particular and seeing the strange in the familiar.

1858-1917. Human Potential is socially based. French Sociologist. Rapid Social Change puts strains on society which causes a breakdown in Society.

Anomie- social control becomes ineffective bc of loosing shared values. Founding Figure in Functionalist Group. Did a study on Suicide

A theoretical perspective that views society as an organized system, analogous to the human system, that is made up of a variety of interrelated parts or structures that work together to generate social stability and maintain society.

Created the idea of Sociological imagination:The ability to see the impact of social forces(public issues) on individuals, especially their private lives (personal troubles)

High Income - nations with the highest overall standard of livingMiddle income - nations with a standard of living above average for the world as a wholeLow income - nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor

America's a wealthier country where even the poor are better off than people in third world countries

The study of the larger world and our societies place in is

The growth of sociology as an academic discipline in the United States coincided with the establishment and upgrading of many universities that were including a new focus on graduate departments and curricula on "modern subjects."

Countries experiencing rapid social changes

Challenging commonly held beliefs

A. Be more active participants in society B. See the constraints in our lives C.

See the opportunities in our lives

Emile Durkheim

A statement of how my specific facts are related

any relatively stable pattern of social behavior

Created by Marx says society is a arena where human interaction is carried out mostly through conflict over resources and wealth and is carried out through the classes

A framework for building theory that sees society as it the product of the everyday interactions in it

It looks at society as a whole

looks at a problem from the smaller bits which are connected

(1818-1883)-German philosopher and founder of Marxism, the theory that class conflict is the motor force driving historical change and development.

In early modern Europe, the class of well-off town dwellers whose wealth came from manufacturing, finance, commerce, and allied professions. Now describes the rich.

workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism).

People own and operate factories and other businesses in pursuit of profits

The consequences of any social pattern for the operation of society as a whole

Any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society

Support of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism

Reasoning that transforms specific observations into General theory

Reasoning that transforms general theory into specific hypothesis suitable for testing

A logical system the bases knowledge on the direct, systematic observation

Information we can verify with our senses

A metal construction that represents some part of the world in a simplified

A concept who's value changes from case to case

A procedure for determining the value of a variable in a specific

Specifying exactly what is to be measured before assigning a value to a variable

Consistency in measurement

Actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure

A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another

The variable that causes the change

The variable that changes

A relationship in which two or more valuables change together

an apparent but false relationship between two or more variables that is caused by some other variable

Holding constant all variables except one in order to see clearly the effect of that variable

Personal neutrality in conducting research

Repeating the research by other investigators

A systematic plan for doing research

A research method for investigating cause-and-effect under highly controlled conditions

A statement of a possible relationship between two or more variables

prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

A change in a subject behavior caused simply by the awareness of being studied

The people who are the focus of research

A part of a population that represents the whole

A research method in which subjects respond to a series of statements or questions on a questionnaire or a interview

A series of written questions a researcher presents to subjects

A series of questions a researcher asks respondents in person

A research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities

In the analysis of research data, secondary analyses look at questions that are not directly stated in the original research hypothesis but that may be relevant to understanding some of the primary analyses.

Gerhard Lenski sociologist that describes how societites have changed over the past 10,000 years. points to the importance of techonlogy in shaping society

Lenskis term for the change that occurs in society gains new technology

Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surrounding

Specialized economic activity

using our resources today so that we don't compromise our resources for future generations. How we can use our recourse to keep us alive.