Ch 2 - Origins of sociology 

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Karl Marx

________ and class conflict: suggested revolution of social classes, where a group of people will reform their society and lead to a classless society without exploitation and class conflict.

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Replication

________: the repetition of study in order to test its findings.

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Positivism

________: the practice of the systemic method to the study of collective world.

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Scientific method

________: use of objective, systematic observations to test theoriesCommon sense: things "everyone knows "are true.

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Pattern of Behaviour

________: reappearing events in society.

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Bourgeoisie

________: capitalists who own the capital, land, factories, and machines.

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Auguste Comte

________ (positivism): father of sociology Believed sociology could unite all sciences and improve society.

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Objectivity

________: value neutrality in research.

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Generalisation

________: an assertion that seeing outside the particularised or personal situation is pertaining to a larger setting.

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Proletariat

________: the exploited workers, who do not aims the means of production.

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social research

Value free: the view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence ________.

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Herbert Spencer

________ and Social Darwinism: second father of sociology.

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Max Weber

________ (Protestant Ethic): disagreed that economics is the central force in social change.

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Weber

________ brought the birth of Capitalism.

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Value

________: standards by which people define what is desirable or not.

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Auguste Comte (positivism)

father of sociology Believed sociology could unite all sciences and improve society

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Herbert Spencer and Social Darwinism

second father of sociology

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Karl Marx and class conflict

suggested revolution of social classes, where a group of people will reform their society and lead to a classless society without exploitation and class conflict

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goals

to get sociology recognised as a separate academic discipline

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Max Weber (Protestant Ethic)

disagreed that economics is the central force in social change

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Positivism

the practice of the systemic method to the study of collective world

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Bourgeoisie

capitalists who own the capital, land, factories, and machines

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Proletariat

the exploited workers, who do not aims the means of production

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Social integration

the degrees to which people are tied to their social group

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Value free

the view that a sociologists personal values or beliefs should not influence social research

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Value

standards by which people define what is desirable or not

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Objectivity

value neutrality in research

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Replication

the repetition of study in order to test its findings

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Pattern of Behaviour

reappearing events in society

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Generalisation

an assertion that seeing outside the particularised or personal situation is pertaining to a larger setting

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