SOCIO15: Midterm (ch. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7)

The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was

Emile Durkheim

Who are the 3 sociologist we discuss about?

Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim

Two variables are said to display correlation if

They vary together in some regular way

Which of the following is the best example of a primary group?

a family gathering for a religious holiday

Science can be defined as

a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation

An apparent, although false, association between two variables that is caused by a third variable is called

a spurious correlation

Jean Piaget's focus was on:

cognition: how people think and understand

a person who criticizes the amish farmer as backward for tilling his fields with horses and a plow instead of using a tractor is exhibiting

ethnocentrism

An act of kindness, such as opening the door for an elderly man, illustrates conforming to

folkways

Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's concept of:

id

A secondary group is a social group that:

is impersonal and engages in some specific activity

Formal organizations are

large secondary groups with a goal orientation

As part of the human culture, religion is an example of

nonmaterial culture

A social group toward which we feel competition or opposition is a/an:

out group

Cultural transmission refers to the process of

passing cultural patterns from one generation to the next

C. Wright Mills claimed that the "sociological imagination" transformed

personal problems into public issues

Which of the following statements comes closest to describing Erik H. Erikson's view of socialization?

personality develops over the entire life course in patterned stages

The cases of Anna, Isabelle, and Genie provide strong evidence that:

social experience has a crucial role in forming human personality

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

sociology

The theoretical paradigm in society that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the

structural-functional paradigm

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

survey

George Herbert Mead considered the self to be:

that part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image

Which sociological research method is most likely to produce data that will identify cause-and-effect relationship?

the experiment

Which of the following is every society's most important primary group?

the family

What is the definition of sociology?

the truth about society

The dominant values of U.S. culture share which of the following?

-belief in tradition of the past -belief in equality of condition for all -belief in individuality (correct answer: all of the above)

The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by

Auguste Comte