Midterm Review

First used by WEB DuBois to study communities and race relations

• Conflict theory

• hypothesis

• empirical studies

• Scientific Method

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

The rational inquiry system underlying science and first employed by Durkheim to sociology

• statistical model

• variable
• Scientific method

• hypothesis

Society is a set of interrelated parts that work together to form a stable system. It relies largely on societal structures

• objectivity

• verstehen
• sociological imagination

• Functionalism (a.k.a. Structural functionalism)

Focus on how individuals interact with each other in society; also the meanings that individuals attach to their actions and the actions of others

• conflict perspective

• functionlism
• interactionist perspective

• experiment

Something that represents something else. Members of a society must agree on meaning.

• functionlism
• latent fnction
• independent variable
• symbol

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The intensive analysis of one person, group event or problem to allow the sociologist to make generalizations that may apply in the same situation

• survey

• institution
• case study

• empirical research

Which of the following men coined the term positivism, and is widely considered the father of sociology?

• Auguste Comte

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

• Emile Durkheim

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Any social group that a person belongs to is a ______.

• Perspective

• Nurture

• Behavior

• Society

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What are language, norms, beliefs, symbols, values and cognitive elements

• High Culture

• Parts of Culture

• Levels of culture

• What anthropologists focus on

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

All the learned language, norms, values, beliefs, knowledge and symbols that are constantly communicated in a society are referred to as

• power

• social action

• culture

• functional integration

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2