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Sociology, Chapter #1 Review Questions with 100% correct answers | verified | latest update 2024
Sociology, Chapter #1 Review Questions with 100% correct answers | verified | latest update 2024
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Sociology, Chapter #1 ReviewAlienation - correct answer-The feeling of separation from one's group or society.
Auguste Comte - correct answer-Father of Sociology.
Capitalism - correct answer-An economic system in which the ownership of the means
production-such as land, factories, large sums of money, and machines-is in private hands.
Capitalists - correct answer-The rule of elite who own the means of producing wealth.
Conflict Theory - correct answer-An approach that examines how and why groups disagree,
struggle over power, and compete for scarce resources.
Divison of Labor - correct answer-An interdependence of different tasks and occupations,
characteristic of industrialized societies, that produces social unity and facilitates change.
dramaturgy - correct answer-approach that depicts human interaction as theatrical
performances
Dysfunctions - correct answer-Social patterns that have a negative impact on a group or
society.
Emile Durkheim - correct answer-Frenchman that focused on the division of labor and
solidarity. He wrote about Suicide. Father of Social Facts and Functionalist Theory.
Empirical - correct answer-Information that is based on observations, experiments, or other
data collection rather than on ideology, religion, intuition, or conventional wisdom.
Feminist Theories - correct answer-Approach that examines and seeks to explain the social,
economical, and political inequality of woman in society.
Functionalism (Structural Functionalism) - correct answer-An approach that maintains that
society is a complex system of interdependent parts that work together to ensure a society's
survival.
Harriet Martineau - correct answer-"Mother" of Sociology. Translated Comet's material so it
was simple and understood.
Herbert Spencer - correct answer-social Darwinism
Karl Marx - correct answer-A German political philosopher that wrote The Communist
Manifesto but he was a student of Capitalism. He sought to analyze and explain how Conflict
drives social change. He devoted his life to figuring out the causes and consequences of
divide between the Bourgeoisie and Proletariat. Father of Conflict Theory.
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