| A | B |
| Sociological Perspective | C. Wright Mills |
| Sociology | Auguste Comte |
| Structural-Functional Approach | Comte, Durkheim, And Spencer |
| Social-Conflict Approach | Karl Marx |
| Symbolic-Interaction Approach | Weber and Mead |
| Scientific Socology | logic of science for understanding |
| Interpretive Sociology | meanings that people attach to behavior |
| Critical Socology | research to bring about social change |
| Methods | experiment, survey, participant observation, and existing sources |
| Macro-level orientation | broad focus |
| Micro-level orientation | close up focus |
| Social structure | stable pattern of social behavior |
| Social functions | consequence of social pattern for operation of society |
| theory | statement of how and why specific facts are related |
| feminism | advocacy of social equality for women and men |