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Sociology Chapters 1 Questions with complete solution Sociology Chapters 1-7 Exam Sociology - correct answer The systematic study of human society Systematic - correct answer Scientific discipline that focuses on patterns of behavior Human Society - correct answer Group behavior; how...

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Sociology Chapters 1-7 Exam
Sociology - correct answer ✔The systematic study of human society


Systematic - correct answer ✔Scientific discipline that focuses on patterns of
behavior


Human Society - correct answer ✔Group behavior; how groups influence
individuals and vice versa


Location - correct answer ✔Where we live makes a huge difference


Sociological Perspective - correct answer ✔Seeing the general in the
particular-?; seeing the strange in the familiar


Suicide Victims - correct answer ✔more likely: wealthy, unmarried, male
protestants
less likely: poor, married, male Jews and Catholics
~Reason=Social Integration- Those with strong social ties were less likely to
commit suicide


Theory - correct answer ✔Statement of how and why facts are
related;...explains social behavior


Paradigm - correct answer ✔a set of fundamental assumptions that guides
thinking; framework for building theory

, Structural Functional Paradigm - correct answer ✔-social structure: any
relatively stable pattern of social behavior found in social institutions
-social function: consequences for the operation of society as a whole
-too broad; ignores inequalities of social class, race, and gender, focuses on
stability at the expense of conflict


Auguste Comte - correct answer ✔coined term "sociology," believed major
goal of sociology was to understand society as it actually operates, favored
positivism


Social Thought - correct answer ✔-Three Stages: Theological, Metaphysical,
Scientific


Manifest Function (Robert K. Merton) - correct answer ✔The intended
consequences of a social system.


Latent Function (Robert K. Merton) - correct answer ✔The unintended
consequences of a social system.


Social Dysfunction - correct answer ✔Factors that lead to the breakdown of
a system, institution, or society.


Robert K. Merton - correct answer ✔American sociologist who won the
National Medal of Science and contributed the idea of manifest and latent
functions.


Social-Conflict Paradigm (favoritism) - correct answer ✔Macro-oriented
paradigm; Views society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and
social change
-too broad; ignores how shared values and mutual...(?)

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