Introduction to Sociology

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  An introduction to the discipline of Sociology. Authored by: Macat. Located at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32KG_ba_NJc. License: Other. License Terms: Standard YouTube License
  

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Question 1 Answer: the study of society and social interaction
This response encompasses both focal areas of sociology.
Question 2 Answer: interact
Interaction at some level combined with a defined area and a shared culture are the components of a society.
Question 3 Answer: the sociological imagination
C. Wright Mills coined this term to refer to making connections between individuals and society.
Question 4 Answer: French Revolution and Industrial Revolution
Both events shaped these classical sociologists’ way of seeing the world sociologically. Comte developed positivism or rules to describe and predict the instability of both of these events in Europe, Marx developed his class-based theory, and Durkheim examined social solidarity by examining “what keeps societies together.”
Question 5 Answer: Economics
Karl Marx is a classical sociologist who studied the effects of capitalism, an economic system, on societies during the Industrial Revolution.
Question 6 Answer: whether sociological studies can predict or improve society.
Positivists argue that laws can be used to objectively theorize social patterns whereas anti-positivists argue for subjective interpretations.
Question 7 Answer: a large questionnaire
Statistical analysis of questionnaires (also called surveys) are the most common type of sociological research and are quantitative.
Question 8 Answer: Karl Marx
As a conflict theorist, Marx’s primary focus was class struggle within a capitalist economic system.
Question 9 Answer: their culture
Weber believed that the influence of culture make it difficult to isolate individual behavior and predict human behavior.