Intro to Sociology
Final Exam (CSCC)(120
questions fully solved)
Sociology - answer the study of society
Sociological Perspective - answer A way of
taking a sociological approach or thinking
sociologically about the world
Sociological Imagination - answer A quality of
mind that allows us to understand the
relationship between our particular situation
in life and what is happening at a social level
Auguste Comte - answer Stated that
sociology needed to be treated like any other
scientific discipline.
Emile Durkheim - answer worked to establish
sociology as an important academic
,discipline. Interested in social factors that
bond and hold people together
Karl Marx - answer Contributed significantly
to conflict theory. Believed that capitalism
was creating social inequality between the
bourgeoisie and the proletariat
Bourgeoisie - answer Those who own the
means of production. I.e. money, factories,
natural resources, and land
Proletariat - answer the workers
Max Weber - answer Interested in how
society was becoming industrialized. He was
concerned with the process of
rationalization, applying logic to all human
activity
Structural Functionalism - answer Society is
viewed as an ordered system of interrelated
parts or structures which are the social
institutions that make up society (family,
education, politics, the economy
, Conflict theory - answer Sees social conflict
as the basis of society and social change
Symbolic interactionism - answer Sees
interaction and meaning as central to society
and assumes that meanings are not inherent
but rather are created through interaction
Feminist theory - answer looks at both
gender inequality in society and the way that
gender structures the social word and
consider remedies to these inequalities
Queer theory - answer Proposes that
categories of sexual identity are social
constructs and that no sexual category is
fundamentally either deviant or normal
Correlation - answer A relationship between
two variables
Causation - answer a relationship where one
variable causes another variable to change
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