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Introduction to Sociology Question and answers already passed Introduction to Sociology Sociology - correct answer the systematic or scientific study of human society and social behavior, from large- scale institutions and mass culture to small groups and individual interactions Society - c...

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Introduction to Sociology
Sociology - correct answer ✔the systematic or scientific study of human
society and social behavior, from large- scale institutions and mass culture to
small groups and individual interactions


Society - correct answer ✔a group of people who shape their lives in
aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish their group from other groups


Social Sciences - correct answer ✔the disciplines that use the scientific
method to examine the social world, in contrast to the natural sciences, which
examine the physical world


Beginner's Mind - correct answer ✔approaching the world without
preconceptions in order to see things in a new way


Culture Shock - correct answer ✔disorientation that occurs when you enter a
radically new social or cultural environment


Sociological Imagination - correct answer ✔A quality of the mind that allows
us to understand the relationship between our individual circumstances and
larger social forces


Micro-sociology - correct answer ✔the level of analysis that studies face-to-
face and smell-group interactions in order to understand how to affect the
larger patterns and institutions of society


Macro-sociology - correct answer ✔the level of analysis that studies large-
scale social structures in order to determine how they affect the lives of
groups and individuals

,Theories - correct answer ✔in sociology, abstract proposition that explain the
social world and make predication about the future


Paraigm - correct answer ✔a set of assumption, theories, and perspective
that make up a way of understanding social reality


Positivism - correct answer ✔the theory, developed by Auguste Comte, that
sense perceptions are the only valid source of knowledge


Scientific Method - correct answer ✔a procedure for acquiring knowledge
that emphasizes collecting concrete data through observation and experiment


Social Darwinism - correct answer ✔the application of the theory of evolution
and the notion of "survival of the fittest" to the study of society


Structural Functionalism - correct answer ✔a paradigm that begins with the
assumption that society is a unified whole that functions because of the
contributions of its separate structures


Mechanical Solidarity - correct answer ✔term developed by Emil Durkheim
to describe the type of social bonds present in premodern, agrarian societies,
in which shared traditions and beliefs created a sense of social cohesion


Organic Solidarity - correct answer ✔term developed by Emile Durkeim to
describe the type of social bonds present in modern societies, based on
difference, interdependence, and individual rights

, Anomie - correct answer ✔"normlessness", term used to describe the
alienation and loss of purpose that result from weaker bonds and an
increased feel connected to other members of their group


Solidarity - correct answer ✔the degree on integration or unity within a
particular society, the extent to which individuals feel connected to other
members of their group


Sacred - correct answer ✔the holy, divine, or supernatural


Profane - correct answer ✔the ordinary, mundane, or everyday


Collective Conscience - correct answer ✔the shared morals and beliefs that
are common to a group and which foster social solidarity


Empirical - correct answer ✔based on scientific experimental or observation


Structure - correct answer ✔a social institution that is relatively stable over
time and that meets the needs of society by performing functions necessary to
maintain social order and stability


Manifest Functions - correct answer ✔the obvious, intended functions of a
social structure for the social system


Latent Functions - correct answer ✔the less obvious, perhaps unintended
functions of a social structure


Conflict Theory - correct answer ✔a paradigm that sees social conflict as the
basis of society and social change, and emphasize a materialists view of

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