(CLEP) Introductory Sociology Flashcards
To prepare you to take CLEP Intro Sociology exam.
The Science or discipline that studies society, social groups, and the relationships between people.
Sociology
A sociologists approach which sees sociology as a means to advance
human welfare.
They seek self-realization, the full development of a cultivated personality,
or improvement of the social condition.
Humanistic Approach
The sociological approach that is primarily concerned with acquiring objective empirical knowledge (the actual knowledge derived from experience or observation that can be measured or counted).
Concerned with “what is” not “What should be.”
Scientific Approach
According to________, a certain quality of mind is required if we are to understand ourselves in relation to society.
C. Wright Mills
Mills referred knowledge as the “______ ______”
“Sociological Imagination”
The word sociology was coined in ____
1838
________ ________ coined the word Sociology in 1938.
He used the Latin word socius–“companion, with others”
and the Greek word ology–“study of”
Auguste Comte
Comte concluded every science (beginning
with astronomy and ending with sociology)
follows the same regular pattern for development. In the first stage scientist look to the supernatural realm for explanations for what they observe.
THEOLOGICAL Stage
In the second stage scientist look to the real
world for explanations.
MetaPHYSICAL Stage
In the third (and final) stage, scientists look
for general ideas or laws
Positive Stage
Name of how society is held together
Social Statics
Name of how a society changes
Social Dynamics
Comte laid the foundations for the
“Theoretical giant of Communist thought”
Karl Marx (1818-1883
The mans whose idea that society is evolving
better. Also, he coined the phrase “survival of the fittest.”
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
The man who did a statistical study of suicide
50 years after Comte.
Emilie Durkheim (1858-1917)
In a series of studies, sought to explain
Capitalism. He also tested Comte’s ideas.
Max Weber (1864-1920)
American sociology experienced a loss of
interest in the larger problems of social order under the leadership of who?
Lester Ward (1841-1913)
and
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910)
The famed functionalist who touched a generation of sociologists by advocating
Grand Theory.
Talcott Parsons (1902-1979)
Involved the building of a theory of society
based on aspects of the real word and the
organization of these concepts to form a
conception of society as a stable system
of interrelated parts.
Grand Theory
Who proposed building middle range theories from a limited number of assumptions from which hypotheses are derived??
Robert Merton (1910-2003)
_____ describes and/or explains the
relationship between two or more
observations.
Theory
________ theory proceeds from general
ideas, knowledge, or understanding of the social world from which specific hypotheses are logically tested.
Deductive
_________ theory proceeds from concrete
observation from which general conclusions
are inferred through a process of reasoning.
Inductive
_____________ sociology studies the
processes whereby humans attach meaning to their lives.
Interpretive
