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Sociology Question and answers already passed Sociology (The Real World) Chapters 1-5 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 - corr...

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Sociology (The Real World) Chapters 1-5
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.
(from 2 people- global)


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


Sociological perspective - correct answer ✔a way of looking at the world
through a sociological lens


Beginner's Mind - correct answer ✔approaching the world without
preconceptions in order to see things in a new way, leaving behind our
"habitual thinking"


Who developed the "Beginner's mind"? - correct answer ✔Bernard McGrane


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


Types of social sciences: - correct answer ✔Economics, Political Science,
History, Anthropology, Communication studies, Geography, Psychology

,Sociological Imagination - correct answer ✔a quality of the mind that allows
us to understand the relationship between our individual circumstances and
larger social forces (race, gender, economics)


Who coined "Sociological Imagination"? - correct answer ✔C. Wright Mills


Micro-sociology - correct answer ✔the level of analysis that studies face-to-
face and small-group interactions in order to understand how they 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


Levels (continuum) of analysis in macro or micro sociology (depending on
which direction you go) - correct answer ✔Self, Interaction, Socialization,
Rules, Groups, Social Inequality, Social Institutions, Culture, Society


Theories/Approaches/Schools of Thought - correct answer ✔abstract
propositions that explain the social world and make predictions about the
future


Paradigms - correct answer ✔a set of assumptions, theories, and
perspectives that make up a way of understanding social reality


Auguste Comte - correct answer ✔First European to state that sociology
needs to be treated like any other scientific discipline. He laid the groundwork
for future sociologists but was not one himself

, Harriet Martineau - correct answer ✔A social activist who wrote about social
changes that were radial for the time and for women. Her biggest success is
translating Comte's book "Introduction to Positive Philosophy" into English


Herbert Spencer - correct answer ✔Developed the term "survival of the
fittest" which explains that social beings evolve through time, with less
successful adaptations falling by the wayside


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


Emile Durkheim - correct answer ✔The father of sociology, he worked to
establish sociology and did an important study on suicide, which he found is
related to religion, employment, and marital status


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


Anomie - correct answer ✔"normlessness", a term used to describe the
alienation and loss of purpose that result from weaker social bonds and
increased pace of change


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


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

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