Subject Matter of Sociology Flashcards
According to ____ Sociology is the science that “deals with social groups: their internal forms or modes of organization, the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organization, and the relations between groups.” In his view, sociology is concerned with interaction itself. A social group is a system of social interaction
Harry M. Johnson (1962:2-4)
According to ____ Sociology is the discipline which studies and analyzes human behavior, the pattern of interaction, and relations in a social context. In other words, Sociology studies group life and the pattern of relationships in the group as well as the institutions that are produced by such relationships.
Odetola and Ademola (1985:14)
____ defined Sociology as the scientific study of social interactions and social organizations. In other words, Sociology studies how our interactions with other people shape the way we think, feel; and what we say and do
Michael Hughes, Carolyn Kroehler and james Zanden (2002)
sociology is interested in what happens when man meets man when human beings form masses or groups when they cooperate, fight
to dominate one another, persuade or initiate others, and develop or destroy a culture. The unit of the sociological study is never an individual, but always at least two individuals somewhat related to one another.
Nicholas S. Timasheff,
`holds that Sociology is the study of social order, the efforts to attain it, and departures from it. It seeks to define the units of human interaction, discover how they are organized as systems of action, explains their continuity through time, and understand how and why these units and relations change or cease to exist
Alex Inkeles (1964)
Another name for sociological Perspective is ___ which was coined by ___
Sociological Imagination, C.Wright Mills
The term “Al-Umran” was coined by ___ which translated to ___
Ibn Khaldun, Sociology
The founder of Sociology ___ , born and died ___
Auguste Comte, 1798-1857
The word “Sociology” was coined in the year
___ succeeding the term ___ which was coined in the year ___
1838, social Physics, 1819
Sociology is divided into two branches according to comete, namely?
Social dynamics and social statics
___ divided social solidarity into ___ and ___
Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), Mechanical and organic solidarity
___ solidarity is based on agreement and identity between people
Mechanical
What is sociology according to max Weber
sociology is a science of social action.
The method of max weber called Verstehen or empathic understanding means?
to mentally put themselves into “the other person’s shoes”
___ refers to the social positions which individuals occupy in society
Status
___ refers to the behavioural expectations of individuals based on their statuses
Role
___ refer to important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about
what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable
Values
___ s a specific guide to action which defines acceptable and appropriate behavior
in a particular situation
Norms
The first female sociologist
Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
___ is the attempt to apply by analogy the evolutionary theories of plant and animal development to the explanation of human society
and social phenomena
Social Darwinism
___ defined sociology as the study of social facts
Emile Durkheim
Sociology can be divided into three based on the level of analysis, they are ___, ___ and ___
Micro-sociology
Meso-sociology
Macro-sociology
The major theoretical perspectives in sociology are?
The Structural-Functionalist Theory
The Conflict Theory
Symbolic-interactionalism
social exchange theory founded by?
George Homans
