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WGU C273 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY ASSESSMENT EXAM GUIDE |BRAND NEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALL GRADED A+|GUARANTEED SUCCESS
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Auguste Conte - ANSWER-Suggested we apply scientific method to social world, which is known as Positivism
Viewed society as a living o...
WGU C273 INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
ASSESSMENT EXAM GUIDE 2024-2025|BRAND NEW
EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALL
GRADED A+|GUARANTEED SUCCESS|LATEST UPDATE
2024-2025
Auguste Conte - ANSWER-✔Suggested we apply scientific method to social world,
which is known as Positivism
Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body - must function
together to function smoothly. (functional analysis)
Herbert Spencer - ANSWER-✔*Called 2nd founder of sociology
*disagreed with Conte, believed sociologists should not guide social reform
*societies are evolving from lower to higher form
*society's most capable and intelligent members service - the less capable die out
*fittest members produce a more advanced society "The survival of the fittest" or
"Social Darwinism" (credited to Darwin because he applied it to organisms.
Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body - must function
together to function smoothly. (functional analysis)
Karl Marx - ANSWER-✔*believed the engine of human history is class conflict
*society is made up of 2 classes
*economics is a central force in social change
*Bourgeoisie - capitalist own the means of production, money, land, factories and
machines
*Proletariat - workers;
*workers will unite and bread their chains of bondage
*introduced Conflict Theory
*did not think of himself as a sociologist
Bourgeoisie - ANSWER-✔Capitalists
they own the means of production - money, land, factories, and machines.
Proletariat - ANSWER-✔Workers
Emile Durkheim - ANSWER-✔*succeeded in getting sociology recognized as a
separate academic discipline
*how social forces affect peoples behavior
,*Social Integration
when all parts of society full their part it is in a "normal" state, if they do not fulfill
their function it is in an "abnormal" or pathological state. (functional analysis)
Social Integration - ANSWER-✔Degree to which people are tied to their social
groups.
People with weaker social ties are more likely to commit suicide
Applying Durkheim - ANSWER-✔Patterns of behavior or recurring patterns or
events
Max Weber - ANSWER-✔*used cross culture and historical materials to trace the
cause of social change and how social groups affect peoples orientation to life
*disagreed with Karl Marx
*Roman Catholics taught to hold on to tradition, protestant taught to embrace
change
*Protestant ethic
Protestant Ethic - ANSWER-✔*looked for sign they were in Gods good grace
*financial success-live frugal lives, saving ant investing money "the spirit of
capitalism"
This brought about capitalism
Harriet Martineau - ANSWER-✔*did writings because women were to focus on
church, cooking, children and clothes
*early female sociologist
*viewed sociology as a path to reform and improve society (stop lynchings, integrate
immigrants, improve working conditions)
W.E.B. DuBois - ANSWER-✔black sociologist
Jane Adams - ANSWER-✔Sociologist and social reformer
*came from wealth and privilege
*founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr
C. Wright Mills - ANSWER-✔pushed sociologist to go back to push social reform
Basic (or pure) sociology - ANSWER-✔sociological research for the purpose of
making discoveries about life in human groups, not for making changes in those
groups
Applied Sociology - ANSWER-✔the use of sociology to solve problems from
classroom integration and family relationships to crime and pollution
, Public Sociology - ANSWER-✔applying sociology for the public good; especially
sociological perspective (how things relate to one another) to guide politicians and
policy makers
Theory - ANSWER-✔general statement about how some parts of the world fit
together and how they work; an explanation of how 2 or more facts are related to
one another
3 major theories - ANSWER-✔Symbolic Interaction
Functional analysis
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interaction - ANSWER-✔theoretical perspective in which society is viewed
as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views
of the world and communicate with one another
Analyze how social life depends on the ways we define ourselves and others. Study
face to face interactions, examine how people make sense of their live and place in it
i.e. sister vs girlfriend, brother vs boyfriend
George Herbert os one of the founders
Functional Analysis (functionalism, structural functionalism) - ANSWER-✔theoretical
from work in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a
function that when fulfilled contributes to society's equilibrium; also known as
functionalism and structural functionalism
Society is made up of a whole unit of interrelated parts that work together.
Sociologists that had functional analysis theories - ANSWER-✔Auguste Conte
Herbert Spencer
Emiline Durkheim
Robert Melton
Robert Melton - ANSWER-✔dismissed comparing society to a living organism, but
maintained the essence of functionalism
used the terms functions, dysfunctions, manifest, latent, and latent dysfunctions
Function - ANSWER-✔refer to beneficial consequences of people's actions (help
keep a group in balance) i.e. family running a farm
can be manifest or latent
Dysfunctions - ANSWER-✔harmful consequences of people's actions (they
undermine the systems equilibrium
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