history 5.2 Flashcards
Comte
father of sociology
Plato
idealist philosopher; believed in the rule of philosopher-kings
Durkheim
first true scientific sociologist; worked with suicide
Marx
economic determinism
Aristotle
realistic philosopher
Spencer
theory of evolution added to sociology
Weber
used ideal types in sociology
_The study of society is called___________
sociology
the study of humans and culture is called _________
anthropology
the study of the past is known as ___________
history
the study of individual behavior is called____________
psychology
the study of government is called ___________
political science
A possible answer or approach to a problem is called a(n)
hypothesis
sociologist such as Durkheim, Weber, and Sumner were known as classical ___________ of sociology
theorist
the classical sociologist study __________ in general
society
the use of words to tell how something actually happened is called sociological _____________
description
Alexis De Tocquevilled used historical description in his book ____________________________
democracy in america
interest in sociology today centers on ___________ problems than in more generalized ___________
specific
theories
sociological description is necessary to record the results of other methods of ________________
research
statistical analysis collects ___________ that are used to test a ________________-
data
hypothesis
_________________- is the possibility of something being true or valid
probability
one of the major methods used by modern sociologist to gather information is the sociological ______________
survey
surveys always contain a(n) ________________— of people.
sampling
a sample chosen by chance without any particular reason is called a(n) ________________- sample.
random