SOC 200 - CASE STUDY REPORT 1: THREE JAYS CORPORATION;
COMPLETE SOLUTION.(2025)
Sociology - (ANSWER)The study of groups and group interactions, societies and societal
interactions from small and personal groups to very large groups.
Culture - (ANSWER)A group's shared practices, values, and beliefs, encompassing a group's
way of life. example: routine, social interactions, and important parts of group members' lives
Sociological imagination - (ANSWER)An awareness of the relationship between a person's
behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person's choices and perceptions.
coined by C. Wright Mills (sociologist)
SNAP benefits - (ANSWER)Government assistance program that provides food support to low-
income individuals and families.
Stigma - (ANSWER)A mark of disgrace or infamy associated with a particular circumstance,
quality, or person.
Three types of stigma - (ANSWER)Character stigma (ex-convict, something in your past),
physical appearance stigma (disfigurement, disability), and tribal stigma (particular race,
ethnicity, religion).
Auguste Comte - (ANSWER)(1798-1857) A pioneer sociologist who believed that society could
be studied using the scientific method used in natural sciences, believed social scientists could
better society with their work, addressing problems like poor education and poverty
Positivism - (ANSWER)The scientific study of social patterns coined by Auguste Comte.
Law of three stages - (ANSWER)The idea that each science and society as a whole goes through
three stages of development: theological stage, metaphysical stage, and positive stage.
, W.E.B. DuBois - (ANSWER)The first African American to get a degree from Harvard and the
founder of the NAACP.
Environmental racism - (ANSWER)A pattern of behavior where low-income minorities are put
in undesirable areas with environmental hazards.
example: subsidized housing built near toxic waste dumps with contaminated water
Harriet Martineau - (ANSWER)The first woman sociologist who translated Auguste Comte's
books into English
Credited with the first systematic methodological international comparisons of social institutions
in two famous books Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838)
Her work was discounted due to the male domination of academic sociology.
Karl Marx - (ANSWER)A German philosopher and economist who co-wrote the Communist
Manifesto, rejected positivism
He thought capitalism wealth inequality would cause worker revolt and subsequent collapse of
capitalism which would be replaced with communism
Communism - (ANSWER)An economic system under which there is no private or corporate
ownership, and everything is communally owned and distributed as needed.
Max Weber - (ANSWER)A sociologist who believed that the beliefs of Protestants led to the
creation of capitalism and introduced the idea of verstehen.
felt scientific method was too hard to apply to the behavior of groups of people
Best known for the book: The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism (1904)
Verstehen - (ANSWER)A German word meaning 'deep understanding' of something, where
outside observers attempt to understand social groups and culture from an insider's point of view.
Robert Merton - (ANSWER)A sociologist and structural-functionalist who said social processes
often have many functions and the concepts of manifest functions, latent functions, and
dysfunctions.
COMPLETE SOLUTION.(2025)
Sociology - (ANSWER)The study of groups and group interactions, societies and societal
interactions from small and personal groups to very large groups.
Culture - (ANSWER)A group's shared practices, values, and beliefs, encompassing a group's
way of life. example: routine, social interactions, and important parts of group members' lives
Sociological imagination - (ANSWER)An awareness of the relationship between a person's
behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person's choices and perceptions.
coined by C. Wright Mills (sociologist)
SNAP benefits - (ANSWER)Government assistance program that provides food support to low-
income individuals and families.
Stigma - (ANSWER)A mark of disgrace or infamy associated with a particular circumstance,
quality, or person.
Three types of stigma - (ANSWER)Character stigma (ex-convict, something in your past),
physical appearance stigma (disfigurement, disability), and tribal stigma (particular race,
ethnicity, religion).
Auguste Comte - (ANSWER)(1798-1857) A pioneer sociologist who believed that society could
be studied using the scientific method used in natural sciences, believed social scientists could
better society with their work, addressing problems like poor education and poverty
Positivism - (ANSWER)The scientific study of social patterns coined by Auguste Comte.
Law of three stages - (ANSWER)The idea that each science and society as a whole goes through
three stages of development: theological stage, metaphysical stage, and positive stage.
, W.E.B. DuBois - (ANSWER)The first African American to get a degree from Harvard and the
founder of the NAACP.
Environmental racism - (ANSWER)A pattern of behavior where low-income minorities are put
in undesirable areas with environmental hazards.
example: subsidized housing built near toxic waste dumps with contaminated water
Harriet Martineau - (ANSWER)The first woman sociologist who translated Auguste Comte's
books into English
Credited with the first systematic methodological international comparisons of social institutions
in two famous books Society in America (1837) and Retrospect of Western Travel (1838)
Her work was discounted due to the male domination of academic sociology.
Karl Marx - (ANSWER)A German philosopher and economist who co-wrote the Communist
Manifesto, rejected positivism
He thought capitalism wealth inequality would cause worker revolt and subsequent collapse of
capitalism which would be replaced with communism
Communism - (ANSWER)An economic system under which there is no private or corporate
ownership, and everything is communally owned and distributed as needed.
Max Weber - (ANSWER)A sociologist who believed that the beliefs of Protestants led to the
creation of capitalism and introduced the idea of verstehen.
felt scientific method was too hard to apply to the behavior of groups of people
Best known for the book: The Protestant Ethic and Spirit of Capitalism (1904)
Verstehen - (ANSWER)A German word meaning 'deep understanding' of something, where
outside observers attempt to understand social groups and culture from an insider's point of view.
Robert Merton - (ANSWER)A sociologist and structural-functionalist who said social processes
often have many functions and the concepts of manifest functions, latent functions, and
dysfunctions.
