Across
- 8. A term posmodernists use to dismiss any 'grand theory' which believes that it can explain how society, as a whole, functions.
- 9. Describes an attempt to produce sociological knowledge which is strictly fact-based and free from personal bias.
- 10. Interactionist Charles Cooley argues that individuals develop a sense of who they are from how they believe others perceive them. This known as the ___________ ____________ self.
- 11. Marxists believe that the ruling class has successfully persuaded the working class to accept their oppression, which they describe as a false _________________
Down
- 1. Popper rejected the positivist view of science, arguing for the principle of f____________, or the practice of proving a hypothesis to be false.
- 2. Parsons believed that there are some institutions that all societies need in order to survive. He called these functional p______________
- 3. A criticism which is made of those theories which argue that human life is shaped by social structure, thereby ignoring the role of human agency or free will
- 4. Kuhn rejected the notion of sociology being a science because it did not have a p_____________, or a set knowledge which almost all socciologists can agree on.
- 5. The Marxist term for those parts of society which are designed to justify and reproduce the economic base. It includes the media, schools, and religion.
- 6. The organic a__________ describes how the functions of society are compared to those of the human body, where each
- 7. A branch of feminism which argues that 'all men oppress all women' and that women should reject the patriarchy by avoiding heterosexual relationships.