Unit I JeopardyPerspectives People Define Identify MISC

100 100 100 100 100200 200 200 200 200300 300 300 300 300400 400 400 400 400500 500 500 500 500600 600 600 600 600700 700 700 700 700800 800 800 800 800900 900 900 900 900

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