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social institution - correct answer ✔A major structure, made up of groups or
ideas that influence people's daily lives, views of the world, or integration into
society, is called a _____.


clinical sociologists - correct answer ✔People who have a career directly
helping to improve people's lives using sociological concepts are _____.


the systematic study of human society, culture, and relationships on a group
level - correct answer ✔sociology


August Comte - correct answer ✔Which famous theorist actually coined the
term sociology in 1838?


Theological, metaphysical, scientific - correct answer ✔Comte's three stages
of society


theological stage - correct answer ✔people viewed the world and events in
that world as a direct expression of the will of various gods. people believed
planets and the sun were gods in the sky


metaphysical stage - correct answer ✔this stage started around the Middle
Ages in Europe, or somewhere around the 1300s. In this stage of society,
people viewed the world and events as natural reflections of human
tendencies. People in this stage still believed in divine powers or gods, but
they believed that these beings are more abstract and less directly involved in
what happens on a daily basis. Instead, problems in the world are due to
defects in humanity.

,scientific stage - correct answer ✔people view the world and events as
explained by scientific principles


Posivitism - correct answer ✔the belief that societies have their own
scientific principles and laws, just like physics or chemistry. this assumes
there are truths about society that can be discovered through scientific studies
and that our understanding of society should be based on actual data and
evidence.


august comte - correct answer ✔came up with the idea of positivism


Increase in factories; increase in cities; increase in democratic cultures -
correct answer ✔The field of sociology first developed due to three major
changes in European societies in the 18th and 19th centuries. What were
these three major changes?


1700s - correct answer ✔When did both the American and French
Revolutionary wars have a large impact on theoretical development within the
early stages of sociology as a field?


-sociology helps us think critically about whether we believe what our culture
tells us to believe
-sociology helps people see opportunities and challenges
-encourages people to be active members of their society
- sociology helps people appreciate diversity and live in a diverse world -
correct answer ✔John Macionis wrote a popular textbook called "Sociology"
where he named four ways sociology can help with personal growth- what are
they?


Cooley - correct answer ✔who coined the term "primary group"

,primary group - correct answer ✔the first group one is introduced to and is
the most influential on our learning of ideas, beliefs and ideals


Cooley - correct answer ✔in 1905, who founded the American Sociology
Association


interactionist perspective - correct answer ✔this explains society by looking
at the everyday forms of interaction between individuals


Cooley - correct answer ✔who was one of the founders of interactionist
perspective


Cooley - correct answer ✔who coined the term looking glass self?


looking glass self - correct answer ✔this means our self-image comes from
our own self-reflection and from what others think of us


- We imagine how we present ourselves to others.
-We imagine how others evaluate us.
-We develop some sort of feeling about ourselves based upon our perception
of what we think others have of us. - correct answer ✔phases to the
development of self, according to the looking glass self theory


Herbert Spencer - correct answer ✔Who coined the term "survival of the
fittest"?


structural-functionalist perspective - correct answer ✔what perspective was
Herbert Spencer a founding influence on?

, the government - correct answer ✔in sociology, the regulative system would
be ______________________


industry (jobs, money, economy) - correct answer ✔in sociology, the
sustaining system would be _________________


roads, transportation, internet, etc - correct answer ✔the distribution system
in sociology is _________________________


society is made up of various structures (or parts) and that each has a
function (or a job) to perform, we see that when all the structures are
performing their functions correctly, then society as a whole runs stable and
smooth. - correct answer ✔what is the structural-functional perspective


Herbert Spencer - correct answer ✔who received a nomination for the Nobel
Peace Prize for literature in 1902


macrosociology - correct answer ✔what did Gerhard Lenski study


sociocultural evolution - correct answer ✔a process of change involving a
society's level of innovation, transmissions and technological advances


5 - correct answer ✔Lenski broke down the levels of society into how many
types?


Horitcultural Societies - correct answer ✔these began about 12,000 years
ago. They are semi-sedentary (or semi-settled), which means they do not
move around as often as hunter/gatherers. they engage in small-scale farming
and the use of simple hand tools.

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