Unit 1 Vocab

Question 1

C. Wright Mills

Answer 1

Sociologist who made the term sociological imagination

Question 2

Sociological imagination

Answer 2

An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society; ability to view your own society as an outsider

Question 3

Emile Durkheim

Answer 3

Sociologist who developed a social theory about suicide and studied an Australian tribe; came up with “anomie”

Question 4

Auguste Comte

Answer 4

French sociologist who wanted to restructure France’s society; coined the term “sociology”

Question 5

Harriet Martineau

Answer 5

A feminist sociologist who translated Comte’s writings; wrote the first book on sociological methods

Question 6

Herbert Spencer

Answer 6

A sociologist who wanted to simply understand society, not change it; believed it is natural for some to be rich and some poor

Question 7

Anomie

Answer 7

The loss of direction in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective

Question 8

Max Weber

Answer 8

A German sociologist who came up with “verstehen” and the ideal type

Question 9

Verstehen

Answer 9

A German word meaning insight/understanding; means understanding how the subjects view things

Question 10

Ideal type

Answer 10

A construct or model for evaluating specific cases

Question 11

Karl Marx

Answer 11

A critical sociologist who studied how those in power maintained power over the lower class; wrote the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels

Question 12

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 12

A Black sociologist who focused on race and advocated for civil rights; came up with the term “double consciousness”

Question 13

Double consciousness

Answer 13

The division of an individual’s identity into two or more social realities (ex: the experience of being Black in white America)

Question 14

Charles Horton Cooley

Answer 14

Sociologist who studied small units and groups

Question 15

Jane Addams

Answer 15

Sociologist who helped found a settlement house in Chicago; with Ida B. Wells, prevented racial segregation in Chicago public schools; established a juvenile court system and women’s trade union

Question 16

Robert Merton

Answer 16

Sociologist who studied crime and deviating from socially acceptable means; emphasised bringing together micro and macro

Question 17

Mesosociology

Answer 17

An intermediate level of sociological analysis that focuses on formal organizations and social movements

Question 18

Global sociology

Answer 18

Comparing entire nations and their societies

Question 19

Pierre Bourdieu