Sociology Review Test 1

This refers to the process by which rural communities grow to form cities and the growth and extension of those cities.

Founded Hull House where immigrant, sick, poor & old could get help, active in woman's suffrage won Nobel Prize

Introduced use of statistical techniques in my research on suicide. Showed human behavior must by social factors too

A qualitative method of research done by observing people, communities and society interacting in natural environments

A society that relies on the herding of animals to survive. Nomadic lifestyle with little reliance on agriculture.

Believed the key to the unfolding history was class conflict and out this conflict would come a classless society

The average of numbers is

The simplest way to illustrate data found when conducting research.

Your mother does not think that you should dye your hair purple. You believe you should be allowed to do it

Analyzed social structure of Africa American communities, active in Pan-Africn movement & concerned with their rights

1st Mexican American to earn PhD in sociology, focus on civil rights, discriminatin, poverty, public health, border

The belief that sociology should be a science based on knowledge of which we can be sure is know as

Focused on idea of community, describe 5 types of social interaction basic to groups

Studied population growth & change & how group ar organized in different ways interested in social function of newspaper

Society relies on growing plants to survive and are often forced to relocate when resources are depleted

Examples of social structure include family, religion, law, economy, and class.

Stage of society’s development when service sector generates more wealth than the manufacturing sector of the economy.

Research where a large number of people are asked a sample question(s).

Society is composed of parts working together to promote well-being like human body, known for Social Darwinism

Society driven by use of tech & machinery to enable mass production, supporting large population, division of labor

Identified rationalization as a key influence in change from preindustrial to industrial one.

Like actors on a stage, we present ourselves through dress, gestures, and tone of voice. What term does this reflect?

My work laid the foundtion for the theorectical perspective of symbolic interactism

The use of existing data (from prior research) to find the answer to a new question is

Some members of a baseball team begin wearing caps backwards and soon whole team was doing it. This is an example of

I am recognized as the father of sociology. I believed social behavior had to be studied scientifically.

Founded Tuskegee Institute & believed best course of action African Americans was to accept segration = economic gain

The middle of a sorted set of data is

The location and time of the Industrial Revolution

Research methods, political economy, feminist theory, believed women's lack of economic power helped keep them dependent

What do sociologists mean by theoretical perspective?

A nomadic lifestyle where survival is determined by location and availability of natural food/vegetation.

Also known as an agrarian society with social order relying on farming and most people are farmers.

What is theory that people can communicate because they share words gestures & object that have similar meanings to all.

Which of the following best describes the sociogical perspective?

A group of people in a defined location that share a common culture is a

The most frequent number occurring in a set of date is the

What is sociological imagination?