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| group of people who share a culture and a territory |
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| a view that supports objectivity, not based on your personal beliefs, through evaluating |
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| where someone is located in the society based on jobs, income, education, gender, race, sex, ethnicity |
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| requires development of theories that can be tested by research |
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| idea of applying the scientific method to the social world |
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| founder of sociology. Studied the bases of the social order. Firm believer in scientific method being used for sociology but never used it himself. |
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| 2nd founder of Sociology. Coined term, "survival of the fittest". Believed helping the poor helped the less "fit" to survive. |
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| tension associated with groups from different social classes |
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| believed that the proletariat would overthrow the capitalists at some point. Was not actually a sociologist but has influenced others. |
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| compared suicide rates to weak communities. If the person looses ties to their communities, they are more likely to commit suicide. |
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| degree to which people are tied to their social group |
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| used cross-cultural and historical materials to trace the causes of social change and how social groups affect people's orientations to life |
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| liked social reform. Started reading Comte and became an advocate for the abolition of slavery, traveled widely and wrote extensive analyses of social life |
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| received Nobel Peace Prize by working on behalf of poor immigrants. She founded Hull-House in Chicago to help immigrants. leader in women's rights and peace movement of World War I. |
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| studied relations between African Americans and whites. combined the role of academic sociologist with that of social reformer. Edited an influential journal "Crisis". |
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| using sociology to solve problems |
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| controversial because he analyzed the role of the power elite in US society. He has been taken for granted by many for his work. |
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| general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work |
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| the idea that individuals evaluate their own conduct by comparing themselves with others |
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society is a whole unit which is made up of interrelated parts that work together.
AKA: functionalism or structural functionalsim |
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| the idea that classes will always be in conflict because they are different |
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| what people do when they are in one another's presence. |
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| the use of gestures, silence, use of space, and so on without talking and making noise. |
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| a statement of what you expect to find according to predictions that are based on theory |
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| factors that vary or change from one person or situation to another |
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| demonstration of a process |
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| the means by which you collect your data |
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| your operational definitions must measure what they are intended to measure |
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| if other researchers use your operational definitions, their findings will be consistent with yours |
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| asking people a series of questions |
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| target group that you are going to study |
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| individuals from among your target population |
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| your population has the same chance of being included in the study |
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| people who respond to a survey |
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| aka fieldwork: researcher participates in a research setting while observing what is happening in that setting |
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| analyze the data that someone else has already collected |
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| something that causes a change in another variable |
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| variable that might change |
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