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Auguste Comte People 100 AnswerTRANSCRIPT
Unit I JeopardyPerspectives People Define Identify MISC
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People 100
Considered by many to be “the founder of sociology”.
Auguste Comte
People 100 Answer
People 200
Works explore the status of women, children and “sufferers” (ie. criminals, the mentally ill, the poor, alcoholics, etc.).
Harriet Martineau
People 200 Answer
People 300
Believed that societies developed through a process of “struggle” (for existence) and “fitness” (for survival), which he referred to as the “survival of the fittest”.
People 300 Answer
Herbert Spencer
People 400
Maintained that society is built on social facts – patterned ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside any one individual but that exert social control over each person. Concept of anomie.
People 400 Answer
Emile Durkheim
People 500
Necessity of class conflict
People 500 Answer
Karl Marx
People 600
Sociology should be value free – research should be conducted in a scientific manner excluding the researchers personal values and economic interests
People 600 Answer
Max Weber
People 700
Formal Sociology
People 700 Answer
George Simmel
People 800
Classic study of Philadelphia’s African American community. One of the 1st to say we need to be in the field.
People 800 Answer
W.E.B. Du Bois
People 900
Conducted a series of social psychology experiments conducted in the early 1960s. Yale University psychologist
People Answer
Stanley Milgram
Perspectives 100Why is it so difficult for sociologists to be “value free”?
Perspectives100 AnswerWe are a part of the world we live and study
Perspectives200
The sociological approach that views groups in society as engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources
Perspectives200 Answer
Conflict Perspectives
Perspectives300
The sociological approach that focuses on the significance of gender in understanding and explaining inequalities that exist between men and women in the household, in the paid labour force, and in the realms of politics, law, and culture.
Perspectives300 Answer
Feminist Perspectives
Perspectives400
The sociological approach that attempts to explain social life in modern societies that are characterized by post-industrialization, consumerism, and global communications.
Perspectives400 Answer
Postmodern Perspectives
Perspectives500
Perspectives that states: Societies develop social structures or institutions that play a part in helping society survive.
Perspectives500 Answer
Functionalist Perspective
Perspectives600
The sociological approach that view society as the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups
.
Perspectives600 Answer
Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Perspectives700
A hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by men.
Perspectives700 Answer
Patriarchy
Perspectives800
Communicating through the use of symbols.
Perspectives800 AnswerSymbolic
interactions
Perspectives900
_________is the ability of one in a social relationship to carry out his/her wishes
despite resistance from others.
Perspectives900 Answer
Power
Define 100
A belief that the world can best be understood through scientific inquiry.
Define 100 Answer
Positivism
Define 200
The belief that those species of animals (including human beings) best adapted to their environment
survive and prosper, whereas those poorly adapted die out
Define 200 AnswerSocial Darwinism
Define 300
A condition in which social control becomes ineffective as a result of the loss of shared values and a sense of purpose in society
(used to explain the social conditions that in order to understand why people committed
suicide – examining social facts that lie outside individuals)
Define 300 Answer
Anomie
Define 400
People who control the resources
Define 400 Answer
bourgeoisie
Define 500
Those who must sell their labour to earn income; the working class
Define 500 Answer
proletariat
Define 600
A feeling of powerlessness and estrangement from other people and from oneself
Define 600 Answer
alienation
Define 700
A term referring to the undesirable consequences of any element of a society
Define 700 Answer
Dysfunctions
Define 800
Sociological theory and research that focuses on whole societies, large-scale social structures, and social
systems
Define 800 Answer
Macrolevel Analysis
Define 900
C. Wright Mill’s term for the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society
Define 900 Answer
Sociological Imagination
Identify100
Findings are based on the assumption that knowledge is best gained by direct, systematic observation
Identify100 Answer
Empirical Approach
Identify200
Attempt to describe social reality or provide facts about some group, practice or event
(What is happening to whom? Where? When?)
Identify200 Answer
Descriptive Studies
Identify300
Attempt to explain relationships and to
provide information on why certain event do or do not occur
Identify300 Answer
Explanatory Studies
Identify 400
Uses religion, tradition, or authority to answer important questions – based on what is believed to be right or wrong
and what is desirable in a society
Identify400 Answer
Normative Approach
Identify500
Tentative statements of the relationship between two or more concepts or variables.
Identify500 Answer
Hypotheses
Identify600
Scientists try to ensure that their biases and values do not affect their research
Identify600 Answer
Objective
Identify700
The researcher begins with a theory and uses research to test the theory
Identify700 Answer
Deductive Approach
Identify800
The researcher collects information or data (facts or evidence) and then generates theories from the analysis of that data.
Identify800 Answer
Inductive Approach
Identify900
Based on the goal of scientific objectivity and focus on data that can be measured numerically.
Identify900 Answerquantitative research
Misc 100
• a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations
Answer Misc 100
• Society
Misc. 200
• Also known as the Age of Reason. Late 17th to mid 18th century when the emphasis was placed on the individual possession of critical reasoning and experience. It used the power of reason to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in Church and state.
Answer Misc. 200
• Age of Enlightenment
Misc 300
• Systematic study of human society and social interaction
• Systematic because sociologists apply both theoretical perspectives and orderly research to examine social behavior
• Sociologists study human societies and social interactions in order to assess how human behavior is shaped by group life and how group life is affected by individuals
Answer Misc 300
• sociology
Misc 400
• is presumed to cause or determine a dependent
Answer Misc 400
• Independent variable
Misc 500
• is assumed to depend on or be caused by the independent variable
Answer Misc 500
• Dependent variable
Misc 600
• the extent to which a study or research instrument yields consistent results
Answer Misc 600
• Reliability
Misc 700
• is the extent to which a study or research instrument accurately measures what is supposed to measure
Answer misc 700
• Validity
Misc 800
• the tendency of participants to change their behaviour in response to the presence of the researcher or to the fact that they know they are being studied
Answer Misc 800
• Reactivity
Misc 900
• Name the 5 types of research methods
Answer Misc 900
• Experiment• Survey• Field Research• Secondary Data Analysis• Feminist Research