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WorksheetsSociology Unit 1 Vocab
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 22mins
Applied Sociology:
Research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups.
Society is composed of groups competing for scarce resources (Marx)
Using sociology to solve problems.
Describe what is in the social world without evaluating it; based on facts, not opinion.
Basic Sociology:
A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium; also known as functionalism and structural functionalism (Durkheim).
Using sociology to solve problems.
Unintended consequences.
Research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups.
Conflict Theory:
Society is composed of groups competing for scarce resources (Marx).
Describe what is in the social world without evaluating it; based on facts, not opinion.
The study of how people use background assumptions to make sense out of life (Garfinkel)
A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium; also known as functionalism and structural functionalism (Durkheim).
Empirical Statement:
Society is composed of groups competing for scarce resources (Marx).
Describe what is in the social world without evaluating it; based on facts, not opinion.
The study of how people use background assumptions to make sense out of life (Garfinkel).
Examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theorists).
Ethnomethodology:
Examination of small-scale patterns of society (symbolic interactionists).
Intended and recognized consequences.
The study of how people use background assumptions to make sense out of life (Garfinkel).
Examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theorists).
Functional Analysis:
Unintended consequences.
Examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theorists.
Examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theorists.
A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium; also known as functionalism and structural functionalism (Durkheim).
Latent Functions:
Unintended consequences.
Examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theorists).
Intended and recognized consequences.
Examination of small-scale patterns of society (symbolic interactionists).
Macro Sociology:
Unintended consequences.
Examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theorists).
Intended and recognized consequences.
Examination of small-scale patterns of society (symbolic interactionists).
Manifest Functions:
Examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theorists).
Expresses a value judgment about whether a situation is desirable or undesirable; expresses a judgment about what ought to be.
Examination of small-scale patterns of society (symbolic interactionists).
Intended and recognized consequences.
Micro Sociology:
Examination of small-scale patterns of society (symbolic interactionists).
Intended and recognized consequences.
Expresses a value judgment about whether a situation is desirable or undesirable; expresses a judgment about what ought to be.
Social Reality is constructed in the minds of social actors.
Normative Statements:
Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of behavior.
Expresses a value judgment about whether a situation is desirable or undesirable; expresses a judgment about what ought to be.
Social Reality is constructed in the minds of social actors.
The application of the scientific approach to the social world (Comte).
Phenomenology:
The application of the scientific approach to the social world (Comte).
The degree to which people feel a part of social groups (Durkheim).
Social Reality is constructed in the minds of social actors.
Theory for explaining how cultures construct and maintain their realities using signs and symbols; argues that people learn to behave in their social world through interaction with it.
Positivism:
Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of behavior.
The organized means each society develops to meet its basic needs (Family, Government, Beliefs, Economics, Education).
The degree to which people feel a part of social groups (Durkheim).
The application of the scientific approach to the social world (Comte).
Social Facts:
Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of behavior.
A group of people who share a culture and a territory.
The special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people.
The scientific study of human behavior in groups.
Social Institutions:
The degree to which people feel a part of social groups (Durkheim).
The organized means each society develops to meet its basic needs (Family, Government, Beliefs, Economics, Education).
Theory for explaining how cultures construct and maintain their realities using signs and symbols; argues that people learn to behave in their social world through interaction with it.
A group of people who share a culture and a territory.
Social Integration:
Theory for explaining how cultures construct and maintain their realities using signs and symbols; argues that people learn to behave in their social world through interaction with it.
The special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people.
The scientific study of human behavior in groups.
The degree to which people feel a part of social groups (Durkheim)
Social Reality:
Theory for explaining how cultures construct and maintain their realities using signs and symbols; argues that people learn to behave in their social world through interaction with it.
A group of people who share a culture and a territory.
The special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people.
Using sociology to solve problems.
Society:
Society is composed of groups competing for scarce resources (Marx).
A group of people who share a culture and a territory.
The study of how people use background assumptions to make sense out of life (Garfinkel).
Unintended consequences.
Sociological Perspective:
Understanding social behavior by putting yourself in the place of others (Weber).
Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of behavior
The special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people.
The application of the scientific approach to the social world (Comte).
Sociology:
A group of people who share a culture and a territory.
Social Reality is constructed in the minds of social actors.
Expresses a value judgment about whether a situation is desirable or undesirable; expresses a judgment about what ought to be.
The scientific study of human behavior in groups.
Symbolic Interactionism:
A micro level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions (Mead).
The special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people.
The study of how people use background assumptions to make sense out of life (Garfinkel).
Social Reality is constructed in the minds of social actors.
Verstehen:
The organized means each society develops to meet its basic needs (Family, Government, Beliefs, Economics, Education).
Understanding social behavior by putting yourself in the place of others (Weber).
A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium; also known as functionalism and structural functionalism (Durkheim).
Describe what is in the social world without evaluating it; based on facts, not opinion.
