Sociology                                                                                                                              Chapter one

Mr. McGowan                                                                                                                     The Sociological Perspective

 

Write out your answers to the following items on a separate sheet of paper.  This will be turned in and graded for an assignment.  This assignment is worth 20 points.

 

Identify the following Key People in Chapter One:

  1. Jane Addams
  2. Auguste Comte
  3. W.E.B. DuBois
  4. Emile Durkheim
  5. Karl Marx
  6. George Herbert Mead
  7. C. Wright Mills
  8. Herbert Spencer
  9. Max Weber

Identify the following key terms in chapter one:

  1. applied sociology
  2. basic (or pure) sociology
  3. bourgeoisie
  4. class conflict
  5. common sense
  6. conflict theory
  7. functional analysis
  8. latent function
  9. macrolevel analysis
  10. manifest function
  11. microlevel analysis
  12. positivism
  13. proletariat
  14. pure or basic sociology
  15. science
  16. society
  17. sociological perspective
  18. sociology
  19. subjective meanings
  20. symbolic interaction
  21. theory
  22. verstehen:

 

answer the Following questions.

  1. Who was the first to apply scientific method to social life (people)?
  2. What is social Darwinism?  Who proposed the idea?
  3. Explain the role of class conflict  in terms of human progress according to Karl Marx.
  4. What is the difference between a member of the proletariat and a member of the bourgeoisie?
  5. How did Emile Durkheim explain suicide in terms of social integration?
  6. What does Weber believe is at the crux of social change?
  7. Explain the difference between pure and basic research?
  8. Explain the difference between the symbolic interactionists, the functionalists and the conflict theorists.
  9. According to Robert Merton, explain the difference between manifest functions, latent functions and latent dysfunctions.
  10. What do conflict theorists contend explains the changing divorce rates in the United States?
  11. Know how to read charts and graphs and be able to answer questions based on them.
  12. What are the similarities and differences between macro- and micro-levels of analysis?