Sociology

Believed that scholars should try to improve society, not just study it. Spoke out in favor of women's rights, religious tolerance, and the end of slavery.

• Emile Durkheim

• Jane Addams

• Auguste Comte

• Harriet Martineau

This American Sociologist used community studies to underscore the significance of race in American Society.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Jane Addams

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

Considered to be the founder of Sociology

• Auguste Comte

• Herbert Spencer

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

A negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system.

• Dysfunction

• Symbol

• Latent function

• Manifest function

A theoretical perspective that focuses on those forces in society that promote competition and change.

• Functionalist perspective

• Conflict perspective

• Feminist perspective

• Theoretical perspective

A theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system.

• Functionalist perspective

• Conflict perspective

• Feminist perspective

• Theoretical perspective

The process that teaches the norms, values, and other aspects of a culture to new group members.

• Internalization
• Socalization
• Primary Socialization
• Secondary Socialization

Society shaping us into who we are is an example of?

• Nature
• Nurture

Our biological makeup determining who we are is an example of?

• Nature
• Nurture

Which agent of socialization has the most impact on our development?

• Education
• Family
• Mass Media
• Peer Groups