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SOC Final Chamberlain College Of Nursing Question and answers verified to pass 2024/2025 SOC Final The main focus of sociology is ___. - correct answer to study how people affect and are affected by social structures and social processes Sociology was founded in the 18th and 19th centur...

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SOC Final
The main focus of sociology is ___. - correct answer ✔to study how people
affect and are affected by social structures and social
processes


Sociology was founded in the 18th and 19th century, when the study of ___
became a special focus of attention. - correct answer ✔the Industrial
Revolution


____ sociology collaborates outside of academia with practical problems,
addressing a wide range of social issues that concern local, national, and
global groups.
A. Reform - correct answer ✔public


Starting in the 1950s, developed countries with capitalist economies began to
shift from ___ to ___. - correct answer ✔production;consumption


The iPhone has been purchased by millions of people and has revolutionized
the ways phones function in society. This shows that increased consumption
patterns ___. - correct answer ✔influences not just the economy but also
culture


There are four defining characteristics of McDonaldization. Which of the
following is NOT one of these characteristics? - correct answer ✔expansion


Which of the following is NOT an irrationality that could result from rationality
in the fast food industry? - correct answer ✔Automatic French fry machines

,Sending text messages or e-mails, or finding a date through an online dating
site are examples of ___. - correct answer ✔technologically mediated
interactions


___ is the ability to look at the social world from different perspectives. -
correct answer ✔Sociological imagination


Many people believe that when they get laid off from their jobs they are alone,
but many soon come to realize that this is a result of a recession. They are
able to connect their ____ troubles to ____ issues. - correct answer
✔private;public


The short video (on Blackboard) about sociological imagination uses obesity
as an example. What is one reason why obesity is a "public problem" rather
than merely a "private trouble"? - correct answer ✔Lower income families
often have a difficult time buying healthy foods, either because they are simply
not available or are too expensive


___ is the significance of the individual to have the capacity to influence the
shape of society and culture. - correct answer ✔Agency


Advertisers are constantly trying to understand how people utilize their
products and influence the taste of individuals who will perpetuate their
products as "cool." This is an example of ___. - correct answer
✔thesocialconstructionofreality


Family and governmental hierarchies are two examples of ____. - correct
answer ✔social structures

, How is sociology different from commonsense understandings of the social
world? - correct answer ✔Sociology is systematic and rigorous; common
sense is not.


According to Karl Popper, science (unlike pseudoscience) is based on ____. -
correct answer ✔falsification, testing hypotheses in ways that allows them to
be refuted


___ are sets of interrelated ideas that have a wide range of applications, deal
with centrally important issues, and have stood the test of time. - correct
answer ✔Theories


___ coined the term "sociology" and was key in the development of a general
theory of the social world. - correct answer ✔August Comte


Karl Marx believed that over time the situation of capitalism would ___. -
correct answer ✔get worse until the inequality gap led to workers
overthrowing the system


Max Weber analyzed capitalism, but his real interest was in the increase of
____. - correct answer ✔rationalization


When individuals are confused and unsure of the norms to follow, they fit with
Durkheim's definition of experiencing ___. - correct answer ✔anomie


___ refers to the sense of "two-ness" that arises from being American and
black, a sense which affects many African-Americans, according to W. E. B.
Du Bois. - correct answer ✔Doublevconsciousness

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