SOCS 185 Final Exam UPDATED Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SOCS 185 Final Exam UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
seeing "the general in the particular." - CORRECT ANSWER- seeing individual
behaviors and decisions as part of a broader, general pattern.
sociological imagination - CORRECT ANSWER- Ability to see the connection between
the larger wo...
SOCS 185 Final Exam UPDATED
Questions and CORRECT Answers
seeing "the general in the particular." - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- seeing individual
behaviors and decisions as part of a broader, general pattern.
sociological imagination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ability to see the connection between
the larger world and our personal lives
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the systematic study of human society and social
interaction
achieved status - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A social position that a person attains largely
through his or her own efforts
ascribed status - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a position an individual either inherits at birth or
receives involuntarily later in life
symbolic interactionist perspective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the sociological approach
that views society as the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups
Social Conflict Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- claims that stratification divides
societies in classes, benefiting some categories of people at the expense of others and causing
social conflict
Structural Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- theoretical tradition claiming that
every society has certain structures (the family, the division of labor, or gender) that exist to
fulfill some set of necessary functions (reproduction of the species, production of goods, etc.)
Max Weber's view of socialism and what it would do to society. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
He believed that under socialism workers would still work in a hierarchy, but that hierarchy
would be fused with government.
, Max Weber - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Father of sociology. Argued that in a capitalist
society inequalities would lead to conflict, but that there would be more than one source of
conflict. Argued that there were several factors that moderated people's reaction to inequality.
Ethnomethodology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- the study of the way people make sense of
their everyday surroundings
dramaturgical analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Erving Goffman's term for the study of
social interaction in terms of theatrical performance
Quantitative Research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- research that collects and reports data
primarily in numerical form
Qualitative Research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- research that relies on what is seen in
field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical data
The Code of Ethics from the American Sociological Association. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-
Total Institutions (Erving Goffman) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- institutions in which
individuals are cut off from the rest of society so that they can be controlled and regulated for
the purpose of systematically stripping away previous roles and identities in order to create
new ones
voluntary resocialization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Is of one's own free will Such as a
change in religion, starting a new job, starting school, joining the military, or retiring.
Definition of Deviance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Any behavior that departs from society
or group norms
Modes of adaptation in Merton's Strain Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Conformity,
Innovation,
Ritualism,
Retreatism,
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