Soc 1 PSU Exam 1 With Complete Solutions
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Sociological Imagination ANS✔✔ The application of imaginative thought to the asking and answering of sociological
questions
Microsociology ANS✔✔ The study of everyday, face to face interaction
Macrosociology ANS✔✔ The analysis of large social systems and institutions
Social Structure ANS✔✔ The underlying regularities or patterns in how people behave and in their relationship to one
another
Social Constructionism ANS✔✔ Social reality is constructed through power relationships, the aggregation of meaning,
and their representation in relationships between the signifier and signified
The Enlightenment ANS✔✔ The scientific revolution began, societies moved away from monarchy and religious
authority, birth of the modern era, start of industrial revolution
Comte ANS✔✔ Came up with the term sociology in France in the 1800s, promoted positivism
Thought social scientists would be able to predict and control social behavior through scientific knowledge
Double Consciousness ANS✔✔ DuBois- a way of talking about identity through the lens of the experiences of African
Americans.
Anomie ANS✔✔ Normlessness
Lack of shared norms and values
Nothing binds society together
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Social despair
Emile Durkheim ANS✔✔ Studied social facts, disagreed with Marx, saw society as a body (all parts are needed to
function), interested in what societies need to function smoothly, studied social constraints, isolation, and anomies in
relation to social change and human behavior
Organic Solidarity ANS✔✔ Durkheim- the social cohesion that results from the various parts of a society functioning as
an integrated whole
Division of Labor ANS✔✔ Durkheim- Specialization of work tasks by means of which different occupations are combined
within a production system
Social Facts ANS✔✔ Durkheim- the aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals
Max Weber ANS✔✔ Realized early capitalist leaders were Protestants, put forward thesis where Christianity was
compatible with capitalism, viewed politics as outgrowth of economic relations, thought decisive means for politics is
violence (the group with more weapons runs society)
Bureaucracy ANS✔✔ A type of organization marked by a clear hierarchy of authority and the existence of written rules
of procedure and staffed by full-time, salaried officials
The Connection Between Capitalism and Protestantism ANS✔✔ Weber- religious factors were of fundamental
importance in creating a capitalistic outlook
Karl Marx ANS✔✔ Wrote communist manifesto at 25, predicted class conflict would lead to capitalist demise, very
influential in sociology and political history, thought that labor creates all wealth
Materialist Concept of History ANS✔✔ Marx- material, or economic, factors have a prime role in determining historical
change
Symbolic Interactionism ANS✔✔ A theorectical approach in sociology developed by Mead that emphasizes the role of
symbols and languages as core elements of all human interactions
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