Sociology Chapters 1-7 Exam
Sociology - correct answer ✔The systematic study of human society
Systematic - correct answer ✔Scientific discipline that focuses on patterns of
behavior
Human Society - correct answer ✔Group behavior; how groups influence
individuals and vice versa
Location - correct answer ✔Where we live makes a huge difference
Sociological Perspective - correct answer ✔Seeing the general in the
particular-?; seeing the strange in the familiar
Suicide Victims - correct answer ✔more likely: wealthy, unmarried, male
protestants
less likely: poor, married, male Jews and Catholics
~Reason=Social Integration- Those with strong social ties were less likely to
commit suicide
Theory - correct answer ✔Statement of how and why facts are
related;...explains social behavior
Paradigm - correct answer ✔a set of fundamental assumptions that guides
thinking; framework for building theory
, Structural Functional Paradigm - correct answer ✔-social structure: any
relatively stable pattern of social behavior found in social institutions
-social function: consequences for the operation of society as a whole
-too broad; ignores inequalities of social class, race, and gender, focuses on
stability at the expense of conflict
Auguste Comte - correct answer ✔coined term "sociology," believed major
goal of sociology was to understand society as it actually operates, favored
positivism
Social Thought - correct answer ✔-Three Stages: Theological, Metaphysical,
Scientific
Manifest Function (Robert K. Merton) - correct answer ✔The intended
consequences of a social system.
Latent Function (Robert K. Merton) - correct answer ✔The unintended
consequences of a social system.
Social Dysfunction - correct answer ✔Factors that lead to the breakdown of
a system, institution, or society.
Robert K. Merton - correct answer ✔American sociologist who won the
National Medal of Science and contributed the idea of manifest and latent
functions.
Social-Conflict Paradigm (favoritism) - correct answer ✔Macro-oriented
paradigm; Views society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and
social change
-too broad; ignores how shared values and mutual...(?)
Sociology - correct answer ✔The systematic study of human society
Systematic - correct answer ✔Scientific discipline that focuses on patterns of
behavior
Human Society - correct answer ✔Group behavior; how groups influence
individuals and vice versa
Location - correct answer ✔Where we live makes a huge difference
Sociological Perspective - correct answer ✔Seeing the general in the
particular-?; seeing the strange in the familiar
Suicide Victims - correct answer ✔more likely: wealthy, unmarried, male
protestants
less likely: poor, married, male Jews and Catholics
~Reason=Social Integration- Those with strong social ties were less likely to
commit suicide
Theory - correct answer ✔Statement of how and why facts are
related;...explains social behavior
Paradigm - correct answer ✔a set of fundamental assumptions that guides
thinking; framework for building theory
, Structural Functional Paradigm - correct answer ✔-social structure: any
relatively stable pattern of social behavior found in social institutions
-social function: consequences for the operation of society as a whole
-too broad; ignores inequalities of social class, race, and gender, focuses on
stability at the expense of conflict
Auguste Comte - correct answer ✔coined term "sociology," believed major
goal of sociology was to understand society as it actually operates, favored
positivism
Social Thought - correct answer ✔-Three Stages: Theological, Metaphysical,
Scientific
Manifest Function (Robert K. Merton) - correct answer ✔The intended
consequences of a social system.
Latent Function (Robert K. Merton) - correct answer ✔The unintended
consequences of a social system.
Social Dysfunction - correct answer ✔Factors that lead to the breakdown of
a system, institution, or society.
Robert K. Merton - correct answer ✔American sociologist who won the
National Medal of Science and contributed the idea of manifest and latent
functions.
Social-Conflict Paradigm (favoritism) - correct answer ✔Macro-oriented
paradigm; Views society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and
social change
-too broad; ignores how shared values and mutual...(?)
