Exam 3 sociology

Science can be defined as:

A logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation

Which factor is considered when evaluating someone's standard of living?

All of the above: income, employment, class

The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by:

August Comte

Suicide, one main social forces leading to suicide

Emile Durkheim

A criticism of symbolic-interaction approach is that it:

Ignores how structural factors such as class affect people's experiences

Which if the following is an accurate criticism of the structural- functional approach?

It ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict.

Which of the following people had an important influence on the development of the social-conflict approach?

Karl Marx

Major critic of Karl Marx

Max Webber

The Protestant Ethic...

Max Webber

Which statements about the class system in the United states is true?

Most people stay in the same social class for their entire lives

legally sanctioned segregation exists for which group in the U.S. today?

Native Americans

Professor Villarreal's video of his research of the Fidencista religion can be exemplified as what type of research?

Participant observation/inside researcher

The social-conflict approach draws attention to:

Patterns of social inequality

Suicide rates are generally higher among

Single people compared to married people

The chief characteristic of the ____________ approach is its view of society as orderly and stable.

Structural functional

In the video of Missing 43, we learned that

The students social movement began after 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural College went missing after a police ambush in Iguala, Guerrero

The Davis-Moore Thesis states:

The the more society values a particular profession, the more the people ins profession will create

Following the analysis of Karl Marx, which class forms the core of the industrial proletariat?

The working class

As citizens of the world, we should be passionate about changing the world because we live in an imperfect world that needs fundamental change

True

Which if the following was the first African American to receive PhD from Harvard University

W. E. B. Du Bois

A person's position in a country's social stratification is determined by:

Wealth, power, income, race, education

IN the United States today, suicide rates is higher for which of the following categories of people?

White males

Caste and class societies

a and c only: differ of social mobility, differ in terms of ascribed versus achieved status

the sociological concept of minority can be described as

a group that experiences limitations and barrier to life's opportunities

According to C. Wright Mlls and William Domhoff, power is concentrated in the hands

a power elite

The upper class in the United States has considerable power, because it

all of the above

subordinate groups:

all of these

Members of a minority or subordinate group:

all of these apply: share physical or cultural characteristics, are born into it, have less power

which of the following is considered a racial group

all of these: filiino, asian, balck

conflict theory emphasizes

all of these: social change, redistribution of resources, etc

an _______ is an in-depth look at a specific phenomenon or situation in a Particular social setting and is common in qualitative research

case study

The maintenance of political, social economic, and cultural domination over a people by a foreign power for an extended period of time is known as:

colonialism

Violation of laws enacted by society is also known as:

crimes

Which area within the discipline of anthropology is most similar to sociology?

cultural anthropology

Which of the following describes the deductive approach to research?

deductive

founding fathers of sociology

durkheim, marx webber

which ter, is used to describe a group that is set apart from others primarily beause of national origin or distinctive cultural pattern

ethnic group

Which modern sociological theory examines how power relationship are defined, shaped, and reproduced on the basis of gender differences?

feminism

Durkheim's theory and research on deviance fall within which of the main sociological theories?

functionalism

which of the following theoretical perpesctives tends to emphasize how he multiple parts of society are structured to maintain its stability

functionalist theory

The extent to which a researcher can claim that his or her findings explain a larger population that was studied is known as:

generalizability

The deliberate systematic killing of an entire people or nation called:

genocide

Which term is most appropriate in describing U.S. government's policies toward the Native Americans in the nineteenth century?

genocide

Which approach to sociological research starts with empirical observations and then works to form a theory?

inductive

Although deviant behavior can be bad for social cohesion, it is paradoxical because:

it is deviants among us who hold society together

Which of hte following is Durkheim's primary explanation for why people commit suicide?

lack of social itegration

According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with higher suicide typically has:

lower social integration

Which of the following focuses its analyses on larger social dynamics at the societal and structural levels?

macrosociology

Which of the following focuses its analyses on face-to-face encounters and interactions

microsociology

when analyzing the U.S. crime rates, your textbook author explains that the best indicator we have of crime is the:

murder rate

Races can be clearly distinguished in the basis of:

none of these

Economic inequality is greater among

people of the United States

Workers according to mark

proletariat

In social research, a hypothesis is a(n):

proposed relationship between two or more variables

A sociologists studying minor children, pregnant women, or inmates must get approval, as These groups are known as

protected populations

According to Durkheim's researchm what is the primary reason that Protestants are likely to kill themselves than Catholics

protestatism is premised more on the idividual

What type of research describes people's behaviour in rich detail and focuses on the meanings people give to their actions?

qualitative

The two broad approaches social scientists use to gather data about the social world are:

qualitative and quantitative

The research method that uses information that can be converted to numerical form is:

quantitative

Which term is used by sociologists to describe a group that is set apart from others because of obvious physical differences?

racial group

When belief in the inheritance of behavior patterns is coupled with the feeling that a certain groups are inherently superior to others it is called:

racism

The like-hood that a researcher will obtain the same result using the same measures the next time he or she tests a hypothesis is:

reliability

Sociology helps us to:

see opportunities/constraints and be more active

Which term refers to the physical separation of two groups of people in terms of residence, workplace, and social functions?

segregation

concept of race

socially constructed

Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?

sociology

Exaggerated generalizations about the characteristics of members of a group that do not recognize individual differences within the group are known as:

stereotypes

Which of the following is a negative social label that alters a person's self-concept and identity, as well as how others treat the person?

stigma

The functionalists paradigm went largely unchallenged in the United States until about the 1950s. C. Wright. Mills criticized Talcott Parsons for:

supporting the dominant class structure and the inequalities associated with it

Which modern sociological theory attempts to understand social behavior by examining the ways people interpret and give meaning to social signals and signs?

symbolic interactionism

the student guards in Zimbardo's Stanford Prison experiment behaved the way they did because:

the experienced the Lucifer effect, in which they were affected by their surroundiings and cultural expectations

Charles H. Cooley argued that the "self" emerges from how an individual interacts with others and then interprets those interactions. He calls this:

the looking glass self

Prisons and military boot camps are examples of what Goffman calls:

total institutions

know this

w.e.b. dubois

According to Max Weber, there are three major criteria used for measuring social inequality:

wealth, power and prestige