Chapter 1 Sociology: Perspective, Theory, And Method Flashcards
What is sociological perspective?
Sociological perspective is seeing the general in the particular.
What is sociology
Sociology is the systematic study of human society.
What was Emile Durkheim theory?
Durkheim found that wealthy people and the unmarried each had high suicide rates.
Who coined the term sociology?
Auguste Comte
What is high income countries?
They are the nations with the highest overall standard of living.
What is middle income countries?
It is nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole.
What is low income countries?
They are nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor.
Explain the causes and consequences of global wealth and poverty?
- Where we live shapes the lives we lead.
- Societies throughout the world are increasingly interconnected.
- What happens in the rest of the world affects life here in the United States.
- Many social problems that we face in the United States are far more serious elsewhere.
- Thinking globally helps us learn more about ourselves.
Using sociology helps in four ways:
- The sociological perspective helps assess the truth of common sense.
- The sociological perspective helps us see the opportunities and constraints in our lives.
- The sociological perspective empowers us to be active participants in our society.
- The sociological perspective helps us live in a diverse world.
What is social functions?
The consequences of a social pattern for the operation of society as a whole.
What is social dysfunction?
It is any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society.
What is social conflict approach?
Is a framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change.
How May languages are there? How many cultures are there.
There are 7000 languages and 300 cultures.
What is the second language most used in the United States?
Spanish
What is the manifest function?
The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern.
What is latent functions?
The unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern.
What is feminism?
Support for social equality for women and men.
Who is regarded as the first woman sociologist?
Harriet Martineau
What is the racial conflict theory?
The study of society that focuses on inequality and conflict between people of different racial and ethnic categories.
Who was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard?
W E. B. Du Bois.
What is a concept?
A mental construct that represents some part of the world I’m a simplified form.
What is a variable?
It is a concept whose value changes from case to case.
How’s founded the Hull house?
Jane Adams
Who was Karl Marx?
He developed the social conflict theory.
