ØSociologists’ Biographies

Question 1

Responsible for coining the term “sociology”

Answer 1

Auguste Comte

Question 2

Sociologist who focused on two aspects of society social statics and social dynamics.

Answer 2

Auguste Comte

Question 3

Forces which produce
order and stability

Answer 3

Social Statics

Question 4

Forces which
contribute to social change

Answer 4

Social Dynamics

Question 5

Authored one of the earliest analyses of culture and life in
the United States.

Answer 5

Harriet Martineau

Question 6

What is the title of the analyses of USA from Harriet Martineau?

Answer 6

Theory and Practice of Society in America

Question 7

Translated Comte’s work, Positive Philosophy into English

Answer 7

Harriet Martineau

Question 8

Authored the first sociology text

Answer 8

Herbert Spencer

Question 9

Name of the first sociology text?

Answer 9

Principles of Sociology

Question 10

What talks the idea of social darwinism?

Answer 10

Is an idea that social progress occurs through competition.

Question 11

Social darwinism is an idea that is also called?

Answer 11

survival of the fittest

Question 12

Father of conflict theory

Answer 12

Karl Marx

Question 13

Saw class struggles between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

Answer 13

Karl Marx

Question 14

What are Bourgeoisie?

Answer 14

Owners of production (capitalists)

Question 15

What are proletariat?

Answer 15

Workers

Question 16

Most well known empirical study is called Suicide?

Answer 16

Emile Durkeihm

Question 17

Critiqued much of Marx work

Answer 17

Max Weber

Question 18

His most famous work, The Protestant
Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Answer 18

Max Weber

Question 19

When and where began sociology in America?

Answer 19

In the 20th century, at the University of Chicago

Question 20

What are the theoretical perspectives?

Answer 20

-Functionalism
-Conflict Theory
-Interactionist

Question 21

Focuses on how individuals make sense of
and interpret the world, which theoretical perspective is?

Answer 21

Interactionist

Question 22

A complex system of interrelated parts working together, which theoretical perspective is?

Answer 22

Functionalism

Question 23

Sees society as composed of groups competing for power and resources, emphasizing the role of inequality and social change, which theoretical perspective is?

Answer 23

Conflict Theory