Ch 2 - Origins of sociology 

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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.
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Replication
________: the repetition of study in order to test its findings.
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Positivism
________: the practice of the systemic method to the study of collective world.
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Scientific method
________: use of objective, systematic observations to test theoriesCommon sense: things "everyone knows "are true.
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Pattern of Behaviour
________: reappearing events in society.
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Bourgeoisie
________: capitalists who own the capital, land, factories, and machines.
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Auguste Comte
________ (positivism): father of sociology Believed sociology could unite all sciences and improve society.
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Objectivity
________: value neutrality in research.
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Generalisation
________: an assertion that seeing outside the particularised or personal situation is pertaining to a larger setting.
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Proletariat
________: the exploited workers, who do not aims the means of production.
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social research
Value free: the view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence ________.
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Herbert Spencer
________ and Social Darwinism: second father of sociology.
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Max Weber
________ (Protestant Ethic): disagreed that economics is the central force in social change.
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Weber
________ brought the birth of Capitalism.
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Value
________: standards by which people define what is desirable or not.
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Auguste Comte (positivism)
father of sociology Believed sociology could unite all sciences and improve society
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Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism
second father of sociology
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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
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goals
to get sociology recognised as a separate academic discipline
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Max Weber (Protestant Ethic)
disagreed that economics is the central force in social change
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Positivism
the practice of the systemic method to the study of collective world
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Bourgeoisie
capitalists who own the capital, land, factories, and machines
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Proletariat
the exploited workers, who do not aims the means of production
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Social integration
the degrees to which people are tied to their social group
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Value free
the view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence social research
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Value
standards by which people define what is desirable or not
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Objectivity
value neutrality in research
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Replication
the repetition of study in order to test its findings
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Pattern of Behaviour
reappearing events in society
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Generalisation
an assertion that seeing outside the particularised or personal situation is pertaining to a larger setting
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