Download Sociology Study Guide for 1st test

Sociology Study Guide for 1st test
Basic Sociology
What is sociology?
What is the sociological imagination?
Given an example of how someone would use his or her sociological imagination.
Name the different studies that fall under the umbrella of social sciences.
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Explain what each study specializes in.
What is social phenomenon?
What is the macro level? Give two examples.
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What is the micro level? Give one example
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Sociologists
Auguste Compte, father of sociology, best known for positivism. What is positivism?
Karl Marx: What is conflict theory? What are social classes?
Emile Durkheim: What are emergent properties?
Max Weber: What is social reality? What are biases?
George Herbert Mead: What is symbolic interactionism?
Talcott Parsons: What is functionalism?
 Know what the three major theories of sociology are and how they work.