|LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
|Knowledge: |Identify Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau, and Herbert Spencer, and explain their unique contributions to |
|Remembering previously learned |early sociology. |
|material |Identify Robert Park, George H. Mead, and W.E. B. Du Bois and their contributions to American sociology. |
| |Know the six steps in the conventional research process, which focuses on deduction and quantitative |
| |research. |
|Comprehension: |Understand the sociological imagination and explain its significance in interpreting people's actions. |
|The ability to grasp the meaning |Understand the emerging ideas embedded within postmodernism. |
|of the material |Know the ethical concerns in sociological research. |
|Application: |Discuss what C. Wright Mills meant by the sociological imagination and know the reasons why using it will |
|The ability to use material in |help you to better understand the social world. |
|new and concrete situations |Understand problem formulation in conducting qualitative research. |
|Analysis: The ability to break |Compare and contrast the field of sociology with other social sciences. |
|down material