Lesson 3: The Birth and Growth of Social Sciences Flashcards
When was the era of King Henry VII?
1491 to 1547
Era that gave way to Protestantism after the wanted to divorce Catherine Aragon (Infanta de Espana) for Anne Boleyn
King Henry VIII
When was Religious Change?
16th century
Roman Catholicism was the explanation for all events
Religious Change
When was the Enlightenment Period?
17th to 18th century
Age of reason, philosophy, and science
Enlightenment Period
Using objective, systematic observations to test new theories (deductive reasoning)
Scientific Method
What was the most accepted way to understand things during the Enlightenment Period?
Science
Based on analytic understanding of the nature of truth
Philosophy
When was the era of Technological Advancements and Industrial Revolution?
18th century
What was the invention that replaced factories?
Steam engine
What was the invention that replaced factories?
Steam engine
What was used to transport goods and people from rural to urban areas?
Trains
When was Dissolution of Feudal Relations?
20th century
Migration of rural population to urban areas
Mass migration
Disconnection to people led by urbanization
Individualism
Warm relationships within the community
Gemeinschaft
Cold relationships within the community
Gesselschaft
Who realized the depersonalization of life due to money?
George Simmel
The reduction of human interactions or relationships to mere business-like transactions
Depersonalization of Life
Commodification of art
Tragedy of culture
Founding father of sociology, coined the term sociology and discovered the social laws that governed the development of societies
August Comte
Material analysis of history
Karl Marx
Researched about religion, education, and deviance
Emile Durkheim
Lived in France’s 3rd Republic founded in 1871 (First Stable Republic)
Emile Durkheim
Founder of “structural functionalist paradigm”
Emile Durkheim
The book, ____, written by ____, the first piece of sociological work to use ____ as its primary mode of argument.
Suicide, Emile Durkheim, statistical methods
Who wrote “Rules of Sociological Method”?
Emile Durkheim
Consisting of manners of acting, thinking, and feeling external to the individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him
is ___ as defined by Durkheim in his book “Rules of Sociological Method”
Social facts
Who stressed the role of rationalization in the development of society?
Max Weber
Scientific study of humans and human behavior and societies in the past and present
Anthropology
Who is the father of Americal anthropology and rejected the biological basis of racism?
Franz Boas
Coined “participant observation”, where researcher should participate in the culture that is being observed to best understand and record practices occurring
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski
Deals with the study of politics, power, and government
Political Science
Deals with the study of politics, power, and government
Political Science
____ enabled people to deal with people in an impersonal manner
Money
____ enabled merchants and capitalists to extend credit & transactions
Banking system
German sociologist in early 20th century
George Simmel
____, or the act of changing something abstract (a thought or idea) to something real, of products and goods within a society
Reification
____ transformed individuals to autonomous consumers from attachment to local contexts and traditions.
Money economy
Durkheim lived during the years of ___.
1897 to 1966
Durkheim studied ___, its rates and population.
suicides
Durkheim concluded that ___ within a country had ___ and it was ___ throughout the years.
different groups, different suicide rates, stable
If ___ is weaker, members of these groups have lower ___ that keep people from committing suicides.
social integration, social ties
The two aspects of suicide that Durkheim used to study it was ___ and ___.
integration, regulation
Type of suicide associated with low integration, most common
Egoistic
Type of suicide associated with high integration or too much attachment
Altruistic
Type of suicide associated with low regulation or too much freedom
Anomie
Type of suicide associated with high regulation or constricted e.g. slavery
Fatalistic
