Intro to Sociology Chapter 1
Agrarian Societies - correct answer-Societies that depends on agriculture as their primary
means for support and sustenance.
Alienation - correct answer-The sense of dissatisfaction the modern worker feels as a result
of producing goods that are owned and controlled by someone else, according to Marx.
Anomie - correct answer-"Normlessness"; term used to describe the alienation and loss of
purpose as a result from weaker social bonds and an increased pace of change.
Antithesis - correct answer-The opposition to the existing arrangements in a dialectical
model
Auguste Comte - correct answer-"Social Physics" Invented the idea of positivism.
Beginner's mind - correct answer-Approaching the world without preconceptions in order to
see things in a new way (BERNARD MCGRANE)
Bourgeoisie - correct answer-Owners; the class of modern capitalists who own the means of
production and employ wage laborers.
Bureaucracies - correct answer-Secondary groups designed to perform tasks efficiently,
characterized by specialization, technical competence, hierarchy, written rules, impersonality,
and formal written communication.
Capitalism - correct answer-An economic system based on private ownership of the means
of production and characterized by competition, the profit motive, and wage labor.
Class Consciousness - correct answer-The recognition of social inequality on the part of the
oppressed, leading to revolutionary action.
Collective Conscience - correct answer-The shared moral and beliefs that are common to a
group and which foster social solidarity.
Collective Effervescence - correct answer-An intense energy in shared events where people
feel swept up in something larger than themselves.
Communism - correct answer-A political system based on the collective ownership of the
means of production, opposed to capitalism.
Conflict - correct answer-Generated by the competition between different class groups for
scarce resources and the source of all social change, according to Karl Marx.
, Conflict Theory - correct answer-A paradigm that sees social conflict as the basis of society
and social change, and emphasizes a materialist view of society, a critical view of the status
quo, and a dynamic model of historical change.
Conversation analysis - correct answer-A sociological approach that looks at how we create
meaning in naturally occurring conversation, often by taping conversations and examining
them.
Critical Theory - correct answer-A contemporary form of conflict theory that criticizes many
different systems and ideologies of domination and oppression. q
Culture Shock - correct answer-A sense of disorientation that occurs when you enter a
radically new social or cultural environment
Deconstruction - correct answer-A type of critical post-modern analysis that involves taking
apart or disassembling old ways of thinking
Dialectical Model - correct answer-Marx's model of historical change, whereby two extreme
positions come into conflict and create some new thing between them.
Disenchantment - correct answer-The rationalization of modern society.
Dramaturgy - correct answer-A theoretical paradigm that uses the metaphor of the theater to
understand how individuals present themselves to others. ERVING GOFFMAN
Dysfunction - correct answer-A disturbance to or undesirable consequences of some aspect
of the social system.
Emile Durkheim - correct answer-Functionalist, mechanic and organic solidarity,
individualism still relates to the entire, anomie, collective effervescence & conscience.
Empirical - correct answer-Based on scientific experimentation or observation
Erving Goffman - correct answer-Explained how and why we interact differently with different
people through social interactionism
Ethnomethodology - correct answer-The study of "folk methods" (everyday analysis of
interactions) and background knowledge that sustains a shared sense of reality in everyday
interactions. HAROLD GARFINKEL
Eurocentric - correct answer-The tendency to favor European or Western histories, cultures,
and values over other non-Western societies.
False Consciousness - correct answer-A denial of the truth on the part of the oppressed
when they fail to recognize the interests of the ruling class in their ideology.
Feminist Theory - correct answer-A theoretical approach that looks at gender inequities in a
society and the way that gender structures the social world.
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