Sociology Chapter 1-4
Symbolic Interaction - correct answer ✔The Branch of sociology that studies
how people assign meaning to people's behavior, including their own.
Social Solidary - correct answer ✔The degree to which people are bonded to
groups and to the whole society.
Macrosociology - correct answer ✔Large-scale social phenomena such as
culture, class systems, population shifts, and so on.
Empiricism - correct answer ✔The view that generalizations are valid only if
they rely on evidence that can be observed directly or verified through our
senses.
Sociological imagination - correct answer ✔The ability to see the link
between personal experiences and social forces.
Conflict Theory - correct answer ✔The paradigm that emphasizes the conflict
between different sectors of a society, and how groups use resources to
secure their own particular interests.
Paradigm - correct answer ✔General views of the world that determine the
question to be asked and the important things to look at in answering them.
Interactionist Perspective - correct answer ✔The paradigmthat focuses on
how people interpret and attempt to influence the social world.
Manifest Function - correct answer ✔Intended outcomes of an institution
, Scientific Method - correct answer ✔A process by which a body of scientific
knowledge is built through observation, experimentation, generalization, and
verification.
Mid-range Theory - correct answer ✔Explanations that focus on specific
issues rather than society as a whole.
Functionalist - correct answer ✔The paradigm that emphasizes how
elements of a society do (or not do) work toward accomplishing necessary
functions.
Anomie - correct answer ✔Suicide caused by feelings of normlesness and
confusion, the feelin that the rules no longer make sense.
Latent Function - correct answer ✔Unintended, unrecognized, but often
useful consequences of an institution.
C. Wright Mills - correct answer ✔American sociologists; developed concept
of the sociological imagination.
Auguste Compte - correct answer ✔Coined the term sociology;emphasized
empiricism; thought society was evolving toward perfection.
Longitudinal research - correct answer ✔A study that observes a population
over a period of time.
Empirical - correct answer ✔Based on, or capable of being of being based
on, observed evidence.
Symbolic Interaction - correct answer ✔The Branch of sociology that studies
how people assign meaning to people's behavior, including their own.
Social Solidary - correct answer ✔The degree to which people are bonded to
groups and to the whole society.
Macrosociology - correct answer ✔Large-scale social phenomena such as
culture, class systems, population shifts, and so on.
Empiricism - correct answer ✔The view that generalizations are valid only if
they rely on evidence that can be observed directly or verified through our
senses.
Sociological imagination - correct answer ✔The ability to see the link
between personal experiences and social forces.
Conflict Theory - correct answer ✔The paradigm that emphasizes the conflict
between different sectors of a society, and how groups use resources to
secure their own particular interests.
Paradigm - correct answer ✔General views of the world that determine the
question to be asked and the important things to look at in answering them.
Interactionist Perspective - correct answer ✔The paradigmthat focuses on
how people interpret and attempt to influence the social world.
Manifest Function - correct answer ✔Intended outcomes of an institution
, Scientific Method - correct answer ✔A process by which a body of scientific
knowledge is built through observation, experimentation, generalization, and
verification.
Mid-range Theory - correct answer ✔Explanations that focus on specific
issues rather than society as a whole.
Functionalist - correct answer ✔The paradigm that emphasizes how
elements of a society do (or not do) work toward accomplishing necessary
functions.
Anomie - correct answer ✔Suicide caused by feelings of normlesness and
confusion, the feelin that the rules no longer make sense.
Latent Function - correct answer ✔Unintended, unrecognized, but often
useful consequences of an institution.
C. Wright Mills - correct answer ✔American sociologists; developed concept
of the sociological imagination.
Auguste Compte - correct answer ✔Coined the term sociology;emphasized
empiricism; thought society was evolving toward perfection.
Longitudinal research - correct answer ✔A study that observes a population
over a period of time.
Empirical - correct answer ✔Based on, or capable of being of being based
on, observed evidence.
