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Number 1. An intellectual/philosophical who is considered the founder of sociology and is known for coining the term

Correct Answer: Auguste Comte

Number 2. A term proposed by Comte and is what he called objective and value-free observation, comparison, and experimentation applied to scientific inquiry. It was his way of describing that science needed sociology to takes its place among the other scientific disciplines.

Correct Answer: Positivism

Number 3. Studied and expanded the works of Karl Marx and is well-known for his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Correct Answer: Max Weber

Number 4. Most noted for translating Comte's work into English

Correct Answer: Harriet Martineau

Number 5. An important early book written by Harriet Martineau

Correct Answer: Society in America

Number 6. A technological development of knowledge and manufacturing that began in the late 1600s and continued until the early 1900s.

Correct Answer: Industrial Revolution

Number 7. The first social scholar to take a position in a university for sociology and helped sociology to become part of higher education's academic culture

Correct Answer: Emile Durkhiem

Number 8. Phenomena within society (identified by Durkheim when studying suicide) that typically exists independent of individual choices and actions

Correct Answer: Social Facts

Number 9. The degree to which people are connected to their social groups

Correct Answer: Social Integration

Number 10. A state of relative normlessness that comes from the disintegration of our routines and regulations

Correct Answer: Anomie

Number 11. An economist, philosopher, and revolutionary; he was an influential person in the development of sociology whose writings on class struggles and conflicts that exist in
society wherein the poor masses are exploited by the few wealthy elite still apply today.

Correct Answer: Karl Marx

Number 12. He is remembered for his failed ideas about Social Darwinism or "survival of the fittest" in society. He applied these ideas within society stating that the wealthy aristocrats were the fittest; this meant that the core of his idea was that wealthy people were in effect better for society in the long run.

Correct Answer: Herbert Spencer

Number 13. A Functional Theorist who served as a president of the American Sociological Association and for a short period of time and was the world's premier sociologist.

Correct Answer: Talcott Parsons

Number 14. A centre for sociological research in the United States during the 1920's and 1930's

Correct Answer: The Chicago School

Number 15. A sociological theoretical perspective which originated at the Chicago School; it was partially originated by Charles H. Cooley and George Herbert Mead by focusing on how we form our self-concept through the "looking-glass" self.

Correct Answer: Symbolic Interactionism