Chapter 1

Seeing some event without any reconceptions in order to view things in a new way is using

A culture shock

A society is:

A group of people who share their lives in aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish them from other groups

Functionalist theory is very concerned with the ways that structures contribute to the stability of society. What is structure?

A social institution that is stable over time and helps meet the needs of society

A graduate student in a sociology department is taking s course on the sociology of the economy. In this class, she learns that, even though she always thought of her family as middle class, her parents' income compared to that of the rest of the country actually qualifies them as upper class. What just happened?

A student moved from being an everyday actor to bring a social analyst.

Which of the following people sounds like they're experiencing anomie?

A teenager in a gothic phase is dressed all in black, reads poems about death and suicide.

Which of the following is true about the sociological imagine?

All of these are true

If you find a sociologist who studies simple greetings in hallways, the way that people pls tic tac toe or some other element of everyday interaction, what sort of sociologist have you found?

An ethnomethodologist

What economic system emerged during the industrial revolution?

Capitalism

Which of the following is a paradigm interested in the power imbalances within a society?

Conflict theory

If you've ever gone to a new place, and suddenly felt disoriented because the environment was so strange to you, you may have experienced:

Culture shock

Post modern social theorists attempted to construct "grand narratives", overarching theories that give a sense of order and coherence to the world.

False

Emile Durkheim argued that even an action as seemingly individual as suicide has importantsocial components. What social factors did he examine?

Geography and travel

Which of the following people's teachings would be most Associated with symbolic interactionism?

George Herbert Mead

What was Harriet martineau's most important contribution to the development of sociology as a discipline?

Her translation of the work of August's Comte into English

The idea that societies can evolve, and that "survival of the fittest" might apply to societies too was first discussed by:

Herbert Spencer

Although Karl Marx dude long before anyone had used the word "postmodern", many postmodern theorists still draw on elements of his work to inform their own theories. Given what you know about postmodernism, which of the following quotes from Marx's writings reveals his "postmodern side"?

Idk

According to Emile Durkheim, industrialized societies display organic solidarity. What is the basis for organic solidarity?

Interdependence and individual rights

___ is the level of analysis that studies large scale social structures in order to understand how they affect the larger patterns and institutions of society

Macrosociology

How does Karl Marx differentiate between members of the proletariat and bourgeoisie?

Members of the bourgeoisie own the means of production, while the proletariat possess only their own labor. (Idk)

Macrosociology and microsociology seem to make very different assumptions about how society works. How does sociology, as a discipline, deal with these two very different perspectives?

Most sociologists think of these two perspectives as being on a continuum with each other, adopting whatever perspective seems most useful for a particular problem

Durkheim theorized that the rapidly changing conditions of modern life lead to anomie. What is anomie?

Normalness, loss of social connections

Sociology is a social science. What is another example of a social science?

Political science, because it is concerned with politics and government, and how they affect people and society.

Which school of social theory argues that everything is relative, fragmented, temporary, contingent, and ephemeral?

Postmodernism

Karl Marx referred to the workers as the _____ and the owners as the _______.

Proletariat; bourgeoisie

A researcher studying the interaction between a cashier and a customer at a grocery store would likely be doing what?

Social science

According to c weight mills, what one quality of mind do all great sociologists possess?

Sociological imagination

How is sociology different from other disciplines?

Sociology is the study of human society and social behavior

How is sociology different from other disciplines?

Study of the human society and social behavior

Which of the following theories focuses on how our behaviors are dependent upon the ways we interpret, make sense of, and define ourselves, others, and social situations?

Symbolic interactionism

A functionalist analysis of education might focus on

The functions that education provides for society

Factories, land, machines, or anything else that can be used to create more wealth, is called

The means of production

What is the main difference between the sociological imagination and the sociological perspective?

The sociological imagination is the ability to see the connection between self and ty. The sociological perspective includes that idea, as well as others, like beginner's mind and culture shock

Conflict theory uses a dynamic model of historical change that presents change as Constant, ongoing, and inevitable

True

Emile durkheim's pioneering work. Suicide, used data gleaned from government records to help look for correlations between demographic variables and suicide. This made his work compatible with August's Comte's about how society should be studied

True

Humans are essentially social beings

True

What institutions does Max Weber believe characterize modern industrialized societies?

bureaucracies

Teaching students to solve math problems is an example of a _____ function of education.

manifest

Durkheim suggested that mechanical solidarity created the

social bonds that held agrarian societies together.

Which of the following theories views society as a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together?

structural functionalism

What is the sociological imagination?

the ability to understand the connections between biography and history, or the interplay of the self and the world