Rue Sociology

Head of first sociology department in US at University of Chicago

A situation in which people are estranged from their social world and feel that life is meaningless

A social condition in which social norms are conflicting or entirely absent

French philosopher regarded by many as the founder of sociology

Marxist term for the people who own factories, production plants and businesses

Developed the concept of sociological imagination

First sociology department in US; dedicated to the study of urban life and training students in research

Actions that have negative consequences for society

Actions that have positive consequences for society

French sociologist and educator whose ideas on social solidarity are the foundation for functionalism

British sociologist who translated and edited Comte's work

British social theorist whose views on the evolution of societies were labled social Darwinism

Founded in 1889 to serve the needs of people living in disorganized neighborhooods in Chicago

American sociologist who co-founded Hull House; won 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for outstanding achievements in public service

German Philosopher who proposed that conflict between social classes causes social change

Functions that are unintended or unrecognized by others

American paleontologist who divided sociology into pure and applied subdivisions

Functions that are intended or recognized by others

German political and social theorist who argued that under capitalism society was becoming bureaucratic, impersonal, and excessively rational

Marxist term for factories, production plants and businesses

Social solidarity based on shared values

Social solidarity based on a functional interdependence among people

Our mental pictures of the relative importance of things

Marxist term for the workers who sell their labor to the bourgeoisie

The replacement of traditional thinking with rational thinking, or thinking that heavily emphasizes deliberate calculation, efficiency, and effectiveness in the accomplishment of explicit goals

Journalist-sociologist who viewed Chicago as a sociological laboratory and the everday activities of its citizens as worthy of study

An objective and judicious approach to empirical evidence. Scientists are objective because they do not allow their personal opinions to enter into their scientific work; and they are judicious becuase they require a substantial, if not overwhelming, body of objective evidence before arriving at a conclusion

Another name for social evolution theory; usually refers to the ideas of Herbert Spencer

Theories of social change that assert that societies evolve from the simple to the complex

The degree to which members of a society are united by shared values and other social bonds

The ability to get others to conform to one's wishes even against their own desires

The relatively pernament components of our social enviornment

The intellectual ability to discern the relationship between individual experience and social forces in the larger society

The scientific study of social structure and social interaction and of the factors making for change in social structure and social interaction

A representation that stands for something else

A body of plausible assertions that scientifically explain a phenomenon

Considered father of African American sociology

American sociologist who viewed life as a struggle for existence in which only the fittest survive