NVCC Soc 200 Exam 1 (All solved)

Sociology correct answers the systematic study of human society Auguste Comte correct answers founder of sociology Positivism correct answers the application of the scientific approach to the social world C. Wright Mills correct answers coined the term sociological imagination Sociological Imagination correct answers the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society Conflict Theory correct answers a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources Quantitative Research Methods correct answers way of gathering data that can be quantified and analyzing the data to draw conclusions Qualitative Research Methods correct answers research in which the emphasis is placed on observing, describing, and interpreting people's behavior Karl Marx correct answers founder of modern communism Communism correct answers extreme socialism, working class will take over Econ and gov, distribution of goods based on individual needs Macro-level Sociology correct answers looks at large-scale social processes, such as social stability and change Micro-level Sociology correct answers looks at small-scale interactions between individuals, such as conversation or group dynamics Structural Functionalism correct answers a paradigm based on the assumption that society is a unified whole that functions because of the contributions of its separate structures Secondary Data Analysis correct answers reanalysis of data, often survey data, collected by others, including other sociologists Independant Variable correct answers the thing that will be changed in each experiment Dependent Variable correct answers the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variable Ethnography correct answers the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures