1. Unit I Jeopardy Perspectives PeopleDefineIdentify MISC 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900

2. People 100 Considered by many to be “the founder of sociology”.

3. Auguste Comte People 100 Answer

4. People 200 Works explore the status of women, children and “sufferers” (ie. criminals, the mentally ill, the poor, alcoholics, etc.).

5. Harriet Martineau People 200 Answer

6. People 300 Believed that societies developed through a process of “struggle” (for existence) and “fitness” (for survival), which he referred to as the “survival of the fittest”.

7. People 300 Answer Herbert Spencer

8. People 400 Maintained that society is built on social facts – patterned ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside any one individual but that exert social control over each person. Concept of anomie.

9. People 400 Answer Emile Durkheim

10. People 500 Necessity of class conflict

11. People 500 Answer Karl Marx

12. People 600 Sociology should be value free – research should be conducted in a scientific manner excluding the researchers personal values and economic interests

13. People 600 Answer Max Weber

14. People 700 Formal Sociology

15. People 700 Answer George Simmel

16. People 800 Classic study of Philadelphia’s African American community. One of the 1st to say we need to be in the field.

17. People 800 Answer W.E.B. Du Bois

18. People 900 Conducted a series of social psychology experiments conducted in the early 1960s. Yale University psychologist

19. People Answer Stanley Milgram

20. Perspectives 100 Why is it so difficult for sociologists to be “value free”?

21. Perspectives100 Answer We are a part of the world we live and study

22. Perspectives200 The sociological approach that views groups in society as engaged in a continuous power struggle for control of scarce resources

23. Perspectives200 Answer Conflict Perspectives

24. Perspectives300 The sociological approach that focuses on the significance of gender in understanding and explaining inequalities that exist between men and women in the household, in the paid labour force, and in the realms of politics, law, and culture.

25. Perspectives300 Answer Feminist Perspectives

26. Perspectives400 The sociological approach that attempts to explain social life in modern societies that are characterized by post- industrialization, consumerism, and global communications.

27. Perspectives400 Answer Postmodern Perspectives

28. Perspectives500 Perspectives that states: Societies develop social structures or institutions that play a part in helping society survive.

29. Perspectives500 Answer Functionalist Perspective

30. Perspectives600 The sociological approach that view society as the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups.

31. Perspectives600 Answer Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

32. Perspectives700 A hierarchical system of social organization in which cultural, political, and economic structures are controlled by men.

33. Perspectives700 Answer Patriarchy

34. Perspectives800 Communicating through the use of symbols.

35. Perspectives800 Answer Symbolic interactions

36. Perspectives900 _________is the ability of one in a social relationship to carry out his/her wishes despite resistance from others.

37. Perspectives900 Answer Power

38. Define 100 A belief that the world can best be understood through scientific inquiry.

39. Define 100 Answer Positivism

40. Define 200 The belief that those species of animals (including human beings) best adapted to their environment survive and prosper, whereas those poorly adapted die out

41. Define 200 Answer Social Darwinism

42. Define 300 A condition in which social control becomes ineffective as a result of the loss of shared values and a sense of purpose in society (used to explain the social conditions that in order to understand why people committed suicide – examining social facts that lie outside individuals)

43. Define 300 Answer Anomie

44. Define 400 People who control the resources

45. Define 400 Answer bourgeoisie

46. Define 500 Those who must sell their labour to earn income; the working class

47. Define 500 Answer proletariat

48. Define 600 A feeling of powerlessness and estrangement from other people and from oneself

49. Define 600 Answer alienation

50. Define 700 A term referring to the undesirable consequences of any element of a society

51. Define 700 Answer Dysfunctions

52. Define 800 Sociological theory and research that focuses on whole societies, large- scale social structures, and social systems

53. Define 800 Answer Macrolevel Analysis

54. Define 900 C. Wright Mill’s term for the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society

55. Define 900 Answer Sociological Imagination

56. Identify100 Findings are based on the assumption that knowledge is best gained by direct, systematic observation

57. Identify100 Answer Empirical Approach

58. Identify200 Attempt to describe social reality or provide facts about some group, practice or event (What is happening to whom? Where? When?)

59. Identify200 Answer Descriptive Studies

60. Identify300 Attempt to explain relationships and to provide information on why certain event do or do not occur

61. Identify300 Answer Explanatory Studies

62. Identify 400 Uses religion, tradition, or authority to answer important questions – based on what is believed to be right or wrong and what is desirable in a society

63. Identify400 Answer Normative Approach

64. Identify500 Tentative statements of the relationship between two or more concepts or variables.

65. Identify500 Answer Hypotheses

66. Identify600 Scientists try to ensure that their biases and values do not affect their research

67. Identify600 Answer Objective

68. Identify700 The researcher begins with a theory and uses research to test the theory

69. Identify700 Answer Deductive Approach

70. Identify800 The researcher collects information or data (facts or evidence) and then generates theories from the analysis of that data.

71. Identify800 Answer Inductive Approach

72. Identify900 Based on the goal of scientific objectivity and focus on data that can be measured numerically.

73. Identify900 Answer quantitative research

74. Misc 100 a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations

75. Answer Misc 100 Society

76. Misc. 200 Also known as the Age of Reason. Late 17th to mid 18th century when the emphasis was placed on the individual possession of critical reasoning and experience. It used the power of reason to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted intellectual interchange and opposed intolerance and abuses in Church and state.

77. Answer Misc. 200 Age of Enlightenment

78. Misc 300 Systematic study of human society and social interaction Systematic because sociologists apply both theoretical perspectives and orderly research to examine social behavior Sociologists study human societies and social interactions in order to assess how human behavior is shaped by group life and how group life is affected by individuals

79. Answer Misc 300 sociology

80. Misc 400 is presumed to cause or determine a dependent

81. Answer Misc 400 Independent variable

82. Misc 500 is assumed to depend on or be caused by the independent variable

83. Answer Misc 500 Dependent variable

84. Misc 600 the extent to which a study or research instrument yields consistent results

85. Answer Misc 600 Reliability

86. Misc 700 is the extent to which a study or research instrument accurately measures what is supposed to measure

87. Answer misc 700 Validity

88. Misc 800 the tendency of participants to change their behaviour in response to the presence of the researcher or to the fact that they know they are being studied

89. Answer Misc 800 Reactivity

90. Misc 900 Name the 5 types of research methods

91. Answer Misc 900 Experiment Survey Field Research Secondary Data Analysis Feminist Research