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Sociology Unit 1 Test Question and answers verified to pass Sociology Unit 1 Test Sociological perspective - correct answer understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context society - correct answer people who share a culture and a territory social location -...

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Sociology Unit 1 Test
Sociological perspective - correct answer ✔understanding human behavior
by placing it within its broader social context


society - correct answer ✔people who share a culture and a territory


social location - correct answer ✔the group memberships that people have
because of their location in history and society


science - correct answer ✔the application of systematic methods to obtain
knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods


natural sciences - correct answer ✔the intellectual and academic disciplines
designed to comprehend, explain, and predict events in our natural
environments


social sciences - correct answer ✔the intellectual and academic disciplines
designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled
and repeated observations


generalization - correct answer ✔a statement that goes beyond the individual
case and is applied to a broader group or situation


patterns - correct answer ✔recurring characteristics or events


common sense - correct answer ✔those things that "everyone knows" are
true

,scientific method (the) - correct answer ✔using objective, systematic
observations to test theories


positivism - correct answer ✔the application of the scientific approach to the
social world


sociology - correct answer ✔the scientific study of society and human
behavior


class conflict - correct answer ✔Marx's term for the struggle between
capitalists and workers


bourgeoisie - correct answer ✔Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the
means of production


proletariat - correct answer ✔Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of
workers who do not own the means of production


social integration - correct answer ✔the degree to which people feel a part of
social groups


value free - correct answer ✔the view that a sociologist's personal values or
biases should not influence social research


values - correct answer ✔the standards by which people define what is
desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly


objectivity - correct answer ✔total neutrality

, replication - correct answer ✔repeating a study in order to test its findings


verstehen - correct answer ✔a German word used by Weber that is perhaps
best understood as "to have insight into someone's situation"


subjective meanings - correct answer ✔the meanings that people give their
own behavior


social facts - correct answer ✔Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of
behavior


basic or pure sociology - correct answer ✔sociological research whose
purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make
changes in those groups


applied sociology - correct answer ✔the use of sociology to solve problems -
from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and
pollution.


theory - correct answer ✔a general statement about how some parts of the
world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts
are related to one another


symbolic interactionism - correct answer ✔a theoretical perspective in which
society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish
meaning, develop their view of the world, and communicate with one another


functional analysis - correct answer ✔a theoretical framework in which
society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that,
when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium

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