CHAPTER 1 – Thinking Like a Sociologist Fill in the BlankSelect the missing terms from each section and place them in the correct blank space.Section 1 Alienation Bourgeoisie or capitalists Cultural and political Divisiveness Emile Durkheim EmpiricalHull House Macrosociological MicrosociologicalNAACP Objective ProletariatRace Social facts Social solidaritySociological imagination Sociology SystematicallyTheory________ is the systematic study of groups in society. Because social behaviors have regular patterns, sociologists can study this behavior ________. Sociological understandings of the world differ from common sense because common sense is subjective. The ________ data from sociological research often contradicts the way we think the world works.C. Wright Mills (1959) discussed the ________ as the ability to recognize how the influence of the larger society plays out in individual lives. When sociologists take a ________ approach, they focus on the large-scale patterns of society as a whole. On the other hand, when sociologists focus on the smaller-scale patterns of individuals and their interaction, they are taking a ________ approach.When sociologists analyze the social world, they use a ________ or a guiding set of statements that explains problems, actions, or behaviors. They also rely on ________ information – information that is provable by observation or experiment. Auguste Comte argued that sociologists must be ________ when analyzing society. ________ argued that sociologists should study patterns of social behavior that are measurable and external to the individual, which he called ________. He also believed that social cohesiveness, or ________, was an important characteristic of modern social life.Karl Marx believed the conflict between the ________ (owners of the means of production) and the ________ (workers) produces social ________ and results in ________ - the feeling separate from thesurrounding society. Max Weber argued that ________institutions were equally important to economics in explaining society. Jane Addams co-founded the settlement house called ________. W.E.B. Du Bois helped found the ________, and argued that ________ was the biggest social problem in contemporary America.CHAPTER 1 – Thinking Like a Sociologist Fill in the BlankSelect the missing terms from each section and place them in the correct blank space.Section 2Developing nations Dysfunctional FunctionalismGlobal feminism Haves ideas, beliefsLatent functions Less powerful Liberal feminismManifest functions Men and women PowerRadical feminism Resources Shared meaningsSocial institutions Socially constructed StabilitySymbolsSociological theory is separated into four main theoretical camps. ________ emphasizes the way each part of society works together to create social ________. ________ like education have manifest ________ that are intended such as teaching students to read and write. Education also has unintended functions called ________, such as how college serves as a marriage market. In some cases, a social pattern causes instability for society as a whole, so this social pattern is ________.Conflict theory analyzes the way that groups struggle for social ________ and compete for scarce ________, arguing that those with economic and social power (the “________”) control much of society at the expense of the ________.Feminist theories also emphasize this aspect of conflict, but focus specifically on the inequality between ________. A variety of feminisms exist, including ________, which emphasizes social and legal reforms to achieve gender equity, and ________, which sees male dominance as the major cause of women’s inequality. ________ focuses on larger patterns of gender inequality, including the exploitation of women in developing ________.Symbolic interactionism is a ________ approach in that it focuses on everyday behavior and ________, ________, and attitudes. This perspective emphasizes that society is ________in our daily activities and the way we act and react to others. It argues that when we have ________ (common definitions) forwords, gestures, and images that represent something, ________, we can interact
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