Sociology Lecture Notes Review

Flashcards covering key sociological concepts, theories, and historical figures from the lecture notes, presented in a fill-in-the-blank style.

Sociology is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of __.

human behavior

To understand why people are the way they are or do the things they do, we must understand the interpersonal, historical, cultural, organizational, and global environments they inhabit. This concept is core to the __.

sociological imagination

Durkheim's study on suicide recognized the impact of __ on suicide rates.

social forces

In Durkheim's study, __ refers to the degree to which an individual is bound to a group or groups by social relationships with others.

integration

In Durkheim's study, __ refers to the expectations or demands that are placed on individuals as part of their membership in a group.

regulation

While biology focuses on innate characteristics and psychology focuses on personal characteristics, sociology focuses on __ within the larger society.

human interaction

One benefit of the sociological perspective is finding __ instead of relying on common sense.

truth (fact)

According to __ theory, society is marked by ongoing interaction which is based on symbolic communication, and is constructed through interaction between individuals.

Symbolic Interaction

George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, and Charles Horton Cooley are major theorists associated with the __ level of analysis.

micro (Symbolic Interaction)

The Symbolic Interactionist assumption that 'Belief = Reality' is known as the __.

Thomas Theorem

According to __ theory, society is a system characterized by social inequality which tends to benefit some categories of people more than others.

Social Conflict

Karl Marx, Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and C. Wright Mills are major theorists associated with the __ level of analysis.

macro (Social Conflict)

A key assumption of Social Conflict theory is that societies are __ and change is inevitable.

competitive arenas

According to __ theory, society is like an organism with interdependent parts, an integrated system where society is a reality sui generis.

Structural Functionalist

Emile Durkheim, August Compte, Talcott Parsons, and Robert Merton are major theorists associated with the __ level of analysis.

macro (Structural Functionalist)

A key assumption of Structural Functionalist theory is that all parts of society serve either a __ or latent function.

manifest

__ introduced methodology to sociology and was central to the development of the discipline.

Harriet Martineau

__ created a major research institute at Hull-House, developing and publishing extensively on social ills, and considered herself a sociologist.

Jane Addams

__ was the first African American person to complete a PhD at Harvard and was one of the founders of the NAACP.

W.E.B. Du Bois

__ was most noted for her work on lynching and the exaggeration of sexual assault accusations against black men.

Ida B. Wells