SOC1008 Chapter 1
What is one of the weaknesses of being an everyday actor when it comes to understanding everyday life?
making assumptions and failing to investigate or verify those assumptions
Why did C. Wright Mills think that it is important for everyone, even people who will never take a sociology class, to develop a sociological imagination?
many people are unaware of the connections between their own lives and the larger course of history
Symbolic interactionism argues that people act toward things on the basis of their meaning. According to this perspective, how does meaning arise?
meaning is negotiated through interaction with others
Researcher Pam Fishman studied the conversations of heterosexual couples to determine how power is created and maintained through everyday, face-to-face interactions. How would you describe her approach?
microsociological
What did Max Weber mean when he said that modern people are trapped in an "iron cage"?
most aspects of life are increasingly controlled by rigid rules and rationalization
The phrase "survival of the fittest" is accredited to whom?
Herbert Spencer
Identify what is not an example of postmodernism in popular culture.
Liberty University, the college associated with fundamentalist Christianity.
What is a weakness of the sociological approach?
it attempts to grasp things that everyday actors understand implicitly
Sociology can be defined as the systematic and scientific study of human society and social behavior from ? to ?
large scale institutions; individual interactions
Symbolic interactionism analyzes social phenomena at the macro level, while structural functionalism and conflict theory analyses are at the micro level.
False
There is only one correct theoretical explanation for any particular social phenomenon.
False
Is the microsociological or macrosociological perspectives more useful in analyzing social phenomena?
The macro-sociological perspective is more useful because it explains how large-scale social institutions influence individuals
Jane Addams was an early advocate of applied sociology. This means that she did not just do research by that she also
addressed social problems through activity in the communities she researched
According to Karl Marx, class consciousness is developed
by the lower classes recognizing how society works and challenging those in power
Critical race theory is associated with which of the major theoretic perspectives or schools of thought in sociology?
conflict theory
A reality television show called Wife Swap exchanged the mothers from two very different families and filmed the result as the participants were exposed to radically different ways of life. Although the television network was simply trying to be entertaining, the show also demonstrates the sociological principle of
culture shock
What was probably Harriet Martineau's MOST important contribution to the development of sociology as a discipline?
her translations of the work of Auguste Comte into English
On any given day, you probably depend on many strangers to provide electricity, water, natural gas, weather forecasts, and other services. According to Emile Durkheim, this is interdependence gives rise to
organic solidarity
Why did Durkheim, in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, argue that religion was a powerful source of social solidarity?
religion reinforced collective bonds and cultivated shared moral values
What could you determine about Pam Fishman if you didn't know anything about her except that she studied conversation patterns?
she is a micro sociologist
Who must the social analyst take the perspective of in order to verify that which the everyday actor might just accept or assume to be true?
stranger
What school of social theory believes that society is a stable system of structures that contribute to the equilibrium of the whole?
structural functionalism
The most significant criticism of structural functionalism is that
tends to argue that any social feature that exists must serve a function
Why might Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim be placed far apart on sociology's family tree?
the theoretical approaches they founded are very different