Chapter 1 powerpoint pt.3

Question 1

What caused social upheaval of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

Move to the city: bad working conditions, starvation, inadequate infrastructure, loss of culture and its answers to life’s questions

Question 2

who developed the theory of positivism?

Answer 2

August Comte

Question 3

Durkheim is the founding ___________ of positivism (the _______ to study the social world)

Answer 3

practitioner

methods

Question 4

What are the three Stages of History/Epistemology?

Answer 4

1. Theological
2. Metaphysical
3. Social Physics

Question 5

• society governed by divine will

Answer 5

theology

Question 6

Behavior governed by natural, biological instincts (e.g. naturally good or bad)

Answer 6

Metaphysical

Question 7

identify scientific laws that govern human behavior.

Answer 7

Social Physics

Question 8

______ ______ aka, sociology

Answer 8

social physics

Question 9

first to translate Comte’s written works to English

Answer 9

Harriet Martineau

Question 10

one of the earliest feminist social scientists (though not well known because of sexism in academia).

Answer 10

Harriet Martineau

Question 11

Positivism holds thatsociety, like the physical world, operates according to _______ ___________ ____

Answer 11

general observable laws

Question 12

__________ is thephilosophy of sciencethat _________ facts or information derived fromsensory experience, interpretedthroughrationalorlogicaland mathematical treatments, form the exclusive source of all authoritativeknowledge;and that there is valid knowledge (truth) only in this derived knowledge.

Answer 12

positivism

positive

Question 13

Developed the theory that division of labor helps to determine how social cohesion is maintained, or not maintained, in that society

Answer 13

Emile Durkheim