chapter 1

Question 1

sociology

Answer 1

scientific and systematic study of large groups

Question 2

society

Answer 2

defined geographic area of people who interact and share culture

Question 3

culture

Answer 3

shared practices, values and beliefs

Question 4

sociological imagination

Answer 4

persons behavior x wider group

Question 5

figuration

Answer 5

individual and society are inseparable

Question 6

auguste comte

Answer 6

european
recoined sociology
used scientific study for social patterns (positivism)

Question 7

harriet martineau

Answer 7

european
women’s rights and economics

Question 8

karl marx

Answer 8

european
communism, against positivism

Question 9

Herbert Spencer

Answer 9

european
capitalism and survival of the fittest
often misinterpreted in racist ways

Question 10

georg simmel

Answer 10

european
art and small groups
anti positivism

Question 11

emile durkheim

Answer 11

european
established sociology as a formal academic discipline
healthy vs pathological societies
suicide

Question 12

max webber

Answer 12

european
anti positivism
quantitative and qualitative
capitalism

Question 13

WEB du bois

Answer 13

american
challenged racism
NAACP and equality

Question 14

Thornton Veblen

Answer 14

american
social classes and economy

Question 15

Charles horton cooley

Answer 15

american
concerned with individualism
argued we see ourselves via others reactions (looking glasses)

Question 16

George herbert mead

Answer 16

american
agreed with looking glasses (idea that we see ourselves in others reactions) but argued the status of the person who was reacting mattered

Question 17

Robert E Park

Answer 17

american
social ecology
environment causes chaos not the people

Question 18

paradigms

Answer 18

structural functionalism
conflict theory
symbolic interactionism

Question 19

structural functionalism

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society functions together to contribute to the whole

ex organs in a body

Question 20

conflict theory

Answer 20

inequalities and inequities contribute to social power and affect it

ex one with the most chips wins and will change the rules to continue their winning

Question 21

symbolic interationism

Answer 21

A way to examine the relationships of individuals within their society by studying their communication
ex how a society interprets symbols

Question 22

anti positivism

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the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms and societal values

Question 23

constructivism

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reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be

Question 24

culture

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a groups shared practices, values, and beliefs

Question 25

dramaturgical analysis

Answer 25

sociological view through metaphor and theatrics

Question 26

dynamic equilibrium

Answer 26

a stable state in which all parts of society work together

Question 27

dysfunctions

Answer 27

social patterns that are undesirable for society

Question 28

figuration

Answer 28

analyzing behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior

Question 29

generalized others

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The organized and generalized attitude of a social group

Question 30

Latent functions

Answer 30

unrecognized/unintended consequences of a social process

Question 31

latent functions

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unrecognized/unintended consequences of a social process

Question 32

manifest functions

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The desired consequences of a social function 3, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, structural functionalism

Question 33

paradigms

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philosophical and theoretical framework used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and experiments performed in support of them 3, symbolic interactionism, structural functionalism, conflict theory

Question 34

positivism

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using scientific method to study social patterns

Question 35

positivism

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using scientific medic method to study social patterns

Question 36

reification

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The error of treating abstract as reality

Question 37

social facts

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laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life

Question 38

social institutions

Answer 38

Patterns of beliefs and behaviors focused on meeting social needs

Question 39

verstehen

Answer 39

understand in a deep way

Question 40

kenneth and mamie clark

Answer 40

used dolls and children to disprove segregation

Question 41

peter berger

Answer 41

small and big moments, soc makes firmiliar strange

Question 42

peter berger

Answer 42

small and big moments, soc makes firmiliar strange