Across
- 3. The social science that studies human society and social behavior
- 5. His goal was to show how social forces affect people’s behavior
- 8. Proponent of “Social Darwinism”
- 9. Believed that the imbalance in power would inevitably lead to conflict between the social classes
- 10. A characteristic that can differ from one individual, group, or situation to another in a measurable way
- 11. An objective, logical, and systematic way of collecting empirical data and arriving at a reasoned conclusion
- 12. Anything that represents something else and include: physical objects, gestures, words, events, or any other thing that has an agreed upon meaning in a society
- 13. The consequences that an element of society produces for the maintenance of the social system
- 16. A viewing of behavior of groups in a systematic (or scientific) way
- 17. One of the first to deeply explore the issue of race as it relates to society
- 18. Observable facts or events that involve human society
- 19. Views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system
Down
- 1. The ability to see the connection between the larger world and your own personal life
- 2. Focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change
- 4. An intensive analysis of a person, group, or event
- 6. Focuses on how individuals interact with one another in society
- 7. interested in separate groups within a society rather than in society as a whole
- 8. Allows sociologists to collect data on attitudes and opinions of a large number of people
- 14. Explanations of the relationship among particular phenomena
- 15. Developed the idea of using the scientific method to the social world, known as Positivism