Ch 2 - Origins of sociology

Karl Marx

________ and class conflict: suggested revolution of social classes, where a group of people will reform their society and lead to a classless society without exploitation and class conflict.

Replication

________: the repetition of study in order to test its findings.

Positivism

________: the practice of the systemic method to the study of collective world.

Scientific method

________: use of objective, systematic observations to test theoriesCommon sense: things "everyone knows "are true.

Pattern of Behaviour

________: reappearing events in society.

Bourgeoisie

________: capitalists who own the capital, land, factories, and machines.

Auguste Comte

________ (positivism): father of sociology Believed sociology could unite all sciences and improve society.

Objectivity

________: value neutrality in research.

Generalisation

________: an assertion that seeing outside the particularised or personal situation is pertaining to a larger setting.

Proletariat

________: the exploited workers, who do not aims the means of production.

social research

Value free: the view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence ________.

Herbert Spencer

________ and Social Darwinism: second father of sociology.

Max Weber

________ (Protestant Ethic): disagreed that economics is the central force in social change.

Weber

________ brought the birth of Capitalism.

Value

________: standards by which people define what is desirable or not.

Auguste Comte (positivism)

father of sociology Believed sociology could unite all sciences and improve society

Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism

second father of sociology

Karl Marx and class conflict

suggested revolution of social classes, where a group of people will reform their society and lead to a classless society without exploitation and class conflict

goals

to get sociology recognised as a separate academic discipline

Max Weber (Protestant Ethic)

disagreed that economics is the central force in social change

Positivism

the practice of the systemic method to the study of collective world

Bourgeoisie

capitalists who own the capital, land, factories, and machines

Proletariat

the exploited workers, who do not aims the means of production

Social integration

the degrees to which people are tied to their social group

Value free

the view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence social research

Value

standards by which people define what is desirable or not

Objectivity

value neutrality in research

Replication

the repetition of study in order to test its findings

Pattern of Behaviour

reappearing events in society

Generalisation

an assertion that seeing outside the particularised or personal situation is pertaining to a larger setting