test 1: ch 1, 2 & 3

Question 1

Emile Durkheim

Answer 1

concerned with social solidarity in modern society. COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS. (shared way of understanding)

Question 2

intraracial

Answer 2

between the same race

Question 3

interracial

Answer 3

between other races

Question 4

3 things sociologists must concern themselves with in order to make a claim to knowledge

Answer 4

1. evidence rather than assumption
2. objectivity rather than belief
3. general trends rather than anecdotes

Question 5

sociology

Answer 5

systematic study of human social life

Question 6

C Wright Mills

Answer 6

wrote The Sociological Imagination

Question 7

What was the point of The Sociological Imagination?

Answer 7

to create a connection between history and biography (individual experience)

Question 8

Auguste Comte

Answer 8

invented positivism/ social physics

Question 9

Harriet Martineau

Answer 9

earliest feminist social scientist, the first to translate Comte to English

Question 10

3 theoretical paradigms

Answer 10

conflict, functionalism, symbolic interaction

Question 11

Macro

Answer 11

conflict & functionalism

Question 12

Micro

Answer 12

symbolic interaction

Question 13

Karl Marx

Answer 13

CONFLICT THEORIST. believed daily labor should have meaning.

Question 14

Max Weber

Answer 14

invented Verstehen.

Question 15

Verstehen

Answer 15

passionate understanding. you must be in someone else’s shoes to understand

Question 16

Egoistic suicide

Answer 16

minimal ties

Question 17

altruistic suicide

Answer 17

strong bonds

Question 18

anomic

Answer 18

strong bonds

Question 19

social institution

Answer 19

complex group of interdependent position that perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time

Question 20

founding fathers of sociology

Answer 20

Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim

Question 21

Anomie

Answer 21

the sense of normlessness resulting from drastic change in living conditions or arrangements

Question 22

functionalism

Answer 22

society is a bunch of different perspectives that work together for the maintenance of the whole

Question 23

Herbert Blumer

Answer 23

argued that society and social life is made of symbok we attach meaning to and we respond based on that meaning

Question 24

research methods

Answer 24

tools used to describe, explore, explain social phenomena

Question 25

quantitative data

Answer 25

statistical analysis to describe the world those data represent

Question 26

qualitative data

Answer 26

document the meanings that actions engender in participants

Question 27

enthography

Answer 27

qualitative method of studying people or social setting that uses observation, interaction, and sometimes formal interviewing to document behaviors, customs, experiences, social ties, etc

Question 28

What is the difference between causaulity and correlation?

Answer 28

causation means one event is the result of the occurance of the other; correlation DOES NOT mean that the change in one is the cause of the change in the other, just a relationship between them