• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/20

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

20 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back

Which of the following can be considered to have first offered a formal definition for the field of sociology?

Auguste Comte

Which theoretical camp is interested in the notion of "phase transitions?"

Complexity theorists

Who is probably the most famous conflict theorist of all times?

Karl Marx

The name of a very well-known and early sociologist who was an African-American who received his Ph D from Harvard is ________.

W. E. B. Dubois

Who conducted an early and very famous sociological study of suicide patterns and thereby demonstrated society has emergent properties that are often called "social facts" which represent properties of the overall collectivity of society?

Emile Durkheim (

Which scholar was a German historian who compared many different societies to show how new forms of government and administration were evolving in the second half of the 19th century?

Max Weber

According to "Worldwide Calorie Consumption," about what percentage of the world's people can be considered to be undernourished to some degree?

70%

Who wrote, Capital, a detailed study of the rise of capitalism as a dominant system of production and believed that socialism would inevitably overthrow capitalism?

Karl Marx

Who established the first social science journal in sociology (L'Annee sociologique)?

Emile Durkheim

When did the first major split between science and religion take place?

In the 1500s

Which perspective promotes the belief that "society itself tends to be seen as a mosaic of little scenes and dramas in which people make indications to themselves and others, respond to those indications, align their actions, and so build identities and social structures"?

Symbolic interactionist theorists

All the early sociologists agreed that sociology should attempt to improve the moral quality of society.

False

"Status politics" focuses on ________.

conflicts based on conflicting life styles or worldviews.

The work of Irving Goffman is a good example of which "level of analysis?"

"Micro"

Who was put under house arrest for the rest of his life by the Inquisition for contradicting the Church's views of the physical nature of the heavens?

Galileo

According to Robert Merton, which of the following is conscious and intended?

Manifest functions

The experiments of Stanley Milgram and Solomon Ash were intended to illustrate the effects of group pressure on perceptual judgements made by individuals.

TRUE

George Herbert Mead is a leading example of a "functionalist" theorist.

FALSE

Conflict theorists seek to eliminate all conflicts from society since such incidents are seen as inevitably destructive.

FALSE

There are essentially no Muslim sociologists.

FALSE