Intro to Sociology Chapter 1

More then 1 million immigrants enter the United States each year and many (including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gloria Estefan) have become well known. These facts support the conclusion that:

the worlds nations are increasingly interconnected.

What is the term for basic image of society that guides thinking and research?

theoretical approach

By linking specific facts together to create meaning, we create a:

theory

If we state that children raised in single-parent families are at high risk of being single parents themselves, we have constructed a _____ of family life.

theory

Sociology differs from earlier philosophy by focusing on:

how society actually operates.

The Social conflict approach draws attention to:

patterns of social inequality.

Keeping young people off the streets would be a _____ of sports:

Latent function

What might sociologist say about why an individual chooses a particular person to marry?

This show that the social world guides human behavior.

A social - conflict analysis of sports might emphasize:

how sports reflect social inequality.

The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as:

manifest functions

Two variables said to display correlation if:

they vary together

Suicide rates are generally higher among

Females compared with males single people compared with married people poor people compared with rich people

Which of the following statements in TRUE?

Learning more about other societies helps us better understand our own way of life.

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

Lower social standards

The early U.S. sociologist who earned the first doctorate ever awarded by Harvard University to a person of color was:

W.E.B Du Bois

A small number of people used to represent an entire population is called:

a sample

Which of the following is a way of understanding the wolrd based on science

positivism

Looking at the operation of US schools, the social conflict approach might lead a sociologist to conclude that:

society provides much better schooling to some categories of students then to others.

Which research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in a questionnaire or an interview?

survey

Which theoretical approach highlights the fact that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as the meaning they attach to their behavior:

symbolic-interaction approach

The method of sociological research best suited to identifying cause-and-effect relationships is:

the experiment

The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is:

the reality people construct as they interact with on another.

The chief characteristic of which theoretical approach is its view of society as orderly and stable?

the structural-funcrional approach

For Karl Marx, the point of studying society was:

to reduce inequality

Peter Berger described using the sociological perspective as seeing_____ in the ______.

General; particular

The sociologist who called on his colleagues to be value-free was:

Max Weber

Which US sociologist studied the African American community and served as a founding member of the National Association for theAdvancement of Colored People (NAACP)

W.E.B Du Bois

If you have been criticized for "androcentricity" in your research, you have:

approached the subject from a male perspective

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages?

challenging commonly held beliefs.

Historically, the sociological perspective was most likely to develop in:

countries experiencing rapid social changes.

In his study of prison behavior, Philip Zimbardo was trying to learn:

if prisons themselves create violence.

The theoretical approach in sociology that views society as complex system whos parts work together to promote solidarity ad stability is the:

social structure

The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was:

Emile Durkheim

Studying the meaning people attach to their everyday lives is the search for:

Verstehen

The United States falls within which of the following categories?

high-income nations

Unrecognized an unintended consequences of the social structure are called:

latent functions

Which of the following questions summarizes the focus of the symbolic-interaction approach?

How do people experience society?

Why have sociologists NOT identified "laws of society" that allow us to predict the actions of specific individuals?

Human behavior is both complex and party spontaneous.

Wright Mills pointed out that sociological awareness tends to be more widespread:

In times of social crisis

The "framework for building theory that sees society as an arena in inequality that generates conflict and change" is which of the following?

The social conflict approach

All but one of the following historical changes stimulated the development of the discipline of sociology. Which one did NOT?

The spread of the Roman Catholic church.

In the United States today, the suicide rate is highest for which of the following categories of people?

White Males

Science can be defined as:

a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation.

Which following is the best example of a manifest function of sports?

providing people with recreation and physical conditioning..

An exaggerated description that somebody applies to every person in a category of the population is referred to as:

stereotype

Which of the following phrases best describes the focus of the structural-functional approach?

the consequences of social patterns for the operation of society

Comte described the earliest human societies as being at which level of societal development.

theological stage

The structural-functional approach helps us to:

understand "what makes society tick."

The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by:

Auguste Comte

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

Sociology

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

Karl Marx

The ideal of objectivity means that a researcher

Must strive to be personally neutral about the outcome of the research

In deciding what questions to ask as they begin research, sociologists are guided by:

One or more theoretical approaches.

People in which of the following categories are most likely to make use of the sociological perspective?

People of color

From a sociological perspective, patterns of childbearing around the world suggest that the number of children born to a woman reflects:

Whether she lives in a poor or rich society.

Three roomates are in their dorm room sharing a late-night discussion about why they are in college. A sociological point of view would point to the importance of:

Which country we live in, because going to college is far more common in higher-income nations.

Learning more about sociology helps us to:

be more active participants in society see the opportunity in our lives. see te constraints in your lives.

Failing to consider the possible importance of gender in sociological study describes the problem called:

gender blindness

Sociologists use the concept "empirical evidence" to refer to:

information people can verify with there senses.

Using which of the following methods would a researcher most likely to reveal information about herself to her subjects:

interviews

Robert Merton explained that what is function for one category of a society's population:

may not be functional for another category

A Commonly used statistic that results from adding all scores and dividing by the number of scores is called the:

mean

According to Comte, societies in which stage of development begin to see society as a natural rather than a supernatural- phenomenon?

metaphysical stage

The social-conflict approach might lead a sociologist to highlight:

racial inequality in company's hiring and promotion practices. gender inequality in college sports. class differences in a high school population.

A major advantage of using existing data is:

saving time. Saving money. the quality of the date is often better then what you collect on your own.

Social structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society. What concept refers to these negative consequences?

social dysfunctions