Sociology Chapter 1: What is Sociology?

The social science that studies human society and social behavior

• Sociology

• Anthropology

• Psychology

• Political Science

Disciplines that study human social behavior or institutions and the functions of human society in a scientific manner.

• Sociology

• Social Sciences

• Anthropology

• Psycology

How people related to one another and influence each other's behavior.

• Sociology

• Social Science

• Social Interaction

• Social Phenomena

Observable facts or events that involve human society

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Social Interaction

• Social Phenomena

Looking at social life in a scientific, systematic way, rather than depending on common-sense explanations.

• Sociological perspective

• Sociological imagination

The ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal lie.

• Sociological perspective

• Sociological imagination

Considered to be the founder of Sociology

• Auguste Comte

• Herbert Spencer

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

Founded Hull House in Chicago after visiting a London settlement house.

• Emile Durkheim

• Jane Addams

• Harriet Martineau

• Karl Marx

This American Sociologist used community studies to underscore the significance of race in American Society.

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Jane Addams

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

Believed that scholars should try to improve society, not just study it. Spoke out in favor of women's rights, religious tolerance, and the end of slavery.

• Emile Durkheim

• Jane Addams

• Auguste Comte

• Harriet Martineau