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SOC 102 Final Exam GCU questions withverified answers
August Comte - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -coined the term sociology
-credited with being the founder of sociology
-Comte=Coined
Three theoretical perspectives - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -structural functionalism
-conflict theory
-symbolic interactionism
Sociology Def. - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -The scientific study of human social behavior and human
groups and how they change over time
Herbert Spencer - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -second founder of sociology
Spencer=Second
(Comte was first)
-coined the term survival of the fittest (darwin didn't!!)
Karl Marx - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -believed that society divided into two classes that are natural
enemies
-bourgeoisie (capitalists)
-proletariat (the exploited workers)
Max Weber - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -part of the three most influential sociologists (Durkeim and
Marx)
-protestant ethic: a self-denying approach to life
, Emile Durkheim - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -social integration: the degree to which people are tied to
their social group
Durkeim=inDEGRATION
Macro level of analysis - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -engages the whole system, the big picture
Micro level of analysis - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -the smallest unit of study, a single individual
Structural Functionalism - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -def: society is a complete unit that consists of
many parts or structures that work together, they function because they are more functional than
dysfunctional
-MACRO
-Robert Merton=used the terms function and dysfunction
Conflict Theory - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -def: society is composed of groups that are fighting for
power, prestige and economic resources, one group always wins at the expense of the others
-MACRO
-Karl Marx
Symbolic Interactionism - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -def: views society as a collection of relationships
between people with common meaning and significance, symbols are how we communicate and view
the world
-MICRO
-Erving Goffman=dramaturgy: our lives are a drama and each person plays a role
3 P's - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -property
-power
-prestige
Society - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ -def: a large group of people that live in a geographical territory
and carry on a unified culture that is independent of other groups
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