SOCIOL 110 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Barely Breaking Even, Unintended Consequences, Role Theory

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Paul Knudson

Document Summary

Sociology - the study of human society and how social structures and social processes influence the behavior of individuals and groups. Social structures - patterned social arrangements that influence individuals, groups, and society. This happens on: macro levels, religion, gender, law, economy, social class, micro levels. Sociologists study how things outside of the individual affect people"s conditions. Sociological imagination - the ability to understand how culture, social forces, social institutions,and historical conditions impact the lives, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals and groups. Logical positivism: belief that scientific knowledge and solving problems through logic is. August compte (1838): known as the father of sociology non-spiritual ways of putting order in the world superior to other forms of knowledge. Theory: guiding approach to empirical study: conflict theory. Social science - a set of lgical, systematic, documented methods for investigating society, people, and social processes. Our results either support or fail to report our hypothesis.