STUDY NOTES FOR QUIZ #1
PROFESSOR FERSTER
Sociological Imagination—What does this mean? (The application of imaginative thought to the
asking and answering of sociological questions.)
Emile Durkheim—Organic Solidarity—What does this mean?
Emile Durkheim—Anomie—What does this mean?
Karl Marx—The Materialist Conception of History/Conflict Theory/“Follow the Money”—What do
these ideas mean. (They basically posit that the history of the world is a story of human struggle
between the “haves” and the “have nots.”)
Globalization—is the development of social and economic relationships stretching worldwide.
Max Weber—Rationalization—What does this mean?
Max Weber—Bureaucracy—What does this mean?
Ethnography
Independent Variable
Dependent Variable
Mean
Mode
Median
Sample
Hypothesis
Functionalism—is the understanding of a concept through the function it provides.
Manifest Function and Latent Function
Survey
Experiment
Control
Participant Observation