Sociology Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4)- Questions
with Distinction Graded Answers
The scientific study of social behaviors and human group is known as: - -
Sociology
-The awareness that allows people to comprehend the link between their
immediate, personal social settings and the remote, impersonal social world
is called: - -C. Wright Mills sociological imagination
-Sociology is considered a science because sociologist: - -Study the
influence that society has on people's attitudes and behavior
-Sociologists argue that, unlike scientific knowledge, common sense
conclusions are: - -Sociologists do not accept something as fact because
"every one knows it" each piece must be tested, recorded, and analyzed.
-Emile Durkheim's study of suicide related suicide rates to: - -Group life
(theory side)
-The discipline of sociology was given its name by the French theorist: - -
Auguste Comte
-Anomie refers to: - -Loss of direction felt in a society when social control of
individual behavior becomes ineffective
-The word that Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to take
into account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and
attitudes was: - -Verstehen
-Which sociological perspective would view society as a living organism in
which each part of the organism contributes to it survival and stability? - -
Functionalist perspective
-Which sociological perspective sees the social world as being in continual
struggle? - -Conflict perspective
-What is used to describe a systematic, organized series of step that ensures
maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem? - -Scientific
Method
-What is commonly the second step in the scientific method? - -Reviewing
the literature
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