Soc exam Flashcards
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What is Sociology
Sociology is the study of human society
Define Sociological Imagination
Sociological imagination is the ability to connect ones personal experiences to society at large and greater historical forces.
What does using our sociological imagination allow us to do?
It allows us to make the familiar strange or to question habits or customs that seem natural to us.
Why is sociology important academically?
Sociology is important academically because it is a social science that forces us to understand society and the social world.
Sociology academically teaches you about research and how to do research to back up why societal problems occur and how to fix them.
What differentiates sociology from the other social sciences?
Sociology is a broad study of society, and normally study western society and culture
whereas Psychology focuses on the individual, History is concerned with explaining unique cases, Anthropology studies human relations. mostly other societies and cultures. Political science focuses on power.
What is the history of sociology?
The history of sociology is a relatively young discipline.
Where did sociology come from?
Sociology came from, Comte the father of sociology.
When was sociology created?
After the French revolution
how has sociology has changed over time ?
Sociology has focused on applied perspective, and is best embodied by Chicago school. They have moved beyond simplistic biological metaphors, Functionalism has taken its place.
What does it mean to think like a sociologist?
Applying analytical tools to do something you have always done without much conscious thought.
Making the familiar strange
Who coined the term Sociological imagination?
C. Wright Mills
What do you need the sociological imagination to do?
Think critically about the world around us
What are research methods?
Research methods are approaches that social scientists use for investigating the answers to questions.
What are Quantitative methods?
Methods that seek to obtain information about the social world that is already in or can be converted into NUMERIC FORM
Statistics, Numbers, Date, Charts
What are Qualitative methods?
Methods that attempt to collect information about the social world that CANNOT BE READILY CONVERTED TO NUMERIC FORM.
what people say, participant observation, interviewing, surveys.
What is the deductive approach?
Starts with theory, than forms a hypothesis, makes empirical observations, then analyzes the data to confirm reject or change the original theory.
What is inductive approach?
A research approach that starts with empirical observations and then works to form a theory?
What is the difference between correlation and causation?
Correlation are two things that are related and simultaneously change but do not cause each other too change.
Causation are two variable that when one changes it causes the other to change
Which approach is like the scientific method?
Deductive approach
Who coined the term sociology?
August Comte
What is a social institution?
A complex group of interdependent positions htat together perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time.
Who was the first to translate comtes work into English?
Harriet Martineau
Who is considered to be one of the earliest feminist social scientists writing in the English language?
Harriet Martineau
Who are the three founding fathers of sociological disciplines?
Karl marx, Max weber, and Emile durkheim
