Ch. 1: Sociological Perspective and Theorists

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Across
  1. 6. founded Hull House; social conflict theory
  2. 7. laid the foundations for the conflict theory; believed that class conflict is key to human history.
  3. 9. views symbols, things to which we attach meaning, as the basis of life
  4. 12. unintended beneficial consequences.
  5. 13. applying the scientific approach to the social world.
  6. 15. people who share a culture and a territory.
  7. 16. "put yourself in someone else's shoes
  8. 18. coined the concept of functions.
  9. 23. studied suicide to better understand social factors that influence individual behavior.
  10. 25. seeing the strange in the familiar and the general in the particular.
  11. 26. personal values or biases should not influence social research; supported by Weber.
  12. 29. society is composed of groups competing for scarce resources
  13. 30. author of the sociological imagination
Down
  1. 1. intended beneficial consequences
  2. 2. society is a whole unit made up of interrelated parts that work together.
  3. 3. Marx believed the that this was the only way to end class conflict and struggle.
  4. 4. recurring characteristics or events
  5. 5. studying African American experience in the U.S.; race conflict theory
  6. 8. to focus and analyze large-scale patterns of society; conflict theory and structural functional
  7. 10. believed religion was a central force in social change; studied Catholics and Protestants.
  8. 11. coined the term survival of the fittest; was against social reform.
  9. 14. to focus and analyze small-scale patterns of social life; symbolic interaction
  10. 17. the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
  11. 19. coined the term sociology and is associated with positivism.
  12. 20. the degree to which people are tied to their social group.
  13. 21. a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; how two or more facts are related.
  14. 22. a group's recurring patterns of behavior.
  15. 24. the intersection between history and biography.
  16. 27. harmful consequences of people's actions
  17. 28. the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society; jobs, income, education, gender