Intro to Sociology: Chapter 1-2
Auguste Comte - correct answer-The first sociologist, french social thinker, coined the term
"sociology," applied scientific approach to society: society conforms to laws, like the physical
world.
Belief or faith, turn to experts, agreement of regular people, and science. - correct
answer-The 4 different kinds of truth:
Causation - correct answer-one variable causes another
control group - correct answer-A group separated from the rest of the experiment where the
independent variable being tested cannot influence the results
Correlation - correct answer-change in one is associated with change in another
deductive logic - correct answer-reasoning that transforms general theory into specific
hypothesis suitable for testing...starts with a theory
Dependent variable - correct answer-variable that changes
economic revolution - correct answer-industrialism and capitalism were changing economic
patterns
Emile Durkheim - correct answer-studied who is more likely to commit suicide. Found out
that people with strong sociological ties are less likely to commit suicide.
EVERY - correct answer-________ causation is a correlation.
experiment - correct answer-research method for investigating cause and effect under highly
controlled conditions
experimental group - correct answer-A subject or group of subjects in an experiment that is
exposed to the factor or condition being tested.
Hawthorne Effect - correct answer-change in behavior because you are being studied
Herbert Spencer - correct answer-a social darwinist, coined "survival of the fittest"
hypothesis - correct answer-unverified statement of relationship between variables; a guess
Independent variable - correct answer-cause change in another variable
Inductive logic - correct answer-reasoning that transforms specific observations into general
theory...starts with an observation
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