Sociology

During his career, Anthony has worked as a juvenile police officer, corrections counselor in state prison, and executive director of an urban redevelopment program. In view of this, which description best describes Anthony s career path?

Anthony has been an applied sociologist.

The social science disciple that concentrates on the study of artifacts, social structure, ideas, values, and forms of communication is

Anthropology

The first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life was

Auguste Comte

The two sociologists who referred to society as being a kind of living organism were and

Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer

Dr. Zahns academic interest is analyzing aspects of society and publishing his findings in sociological journals. In view of this, Dr. Zahn is considered to be an sociologist

Basic

Of the following which discipline is most appropriately classified as a natural science?

Biology

the titles Karl Marx used to describe the two classed in society were the and the

Bourgeoisie, proletariat

The sociologist who developed the concept of the power elite was

C. Wright Millis

The sociologist responsible for suggesting the connection between history and biography to explain the sociological imagination was

C. Wright Mills

Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is

Class conglict

The first goal of each scientific discipline is to

Explain why something happens

Which of the following elements did C.Wright Mills attribute as being the one that sociologist would use to explain individual behavior?

External influece

More than twenty years prior to the birth of Durkheim and Weber, Society in America, an analysis of American social customs, was published by sociologist

Harriet Martineau

The term survival of the fittest which is a principle part of the concept of social Darwinism, was coined by

Herbert Spencer

The theorist who is sometimes referred to as the second founder of sociology was

Herbert Spencer

Because of her outstanding contributions to social reform, as demonstrated in her work as co-founder of hull house was a co winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931

Jane Addams

The social thinker of the 19th century who predicted that there would be a classless society once the working class united and began a revolution was

Karl Marx

The wall street Journal has declared that the three greatest modern thinkers were

Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein

The contemporary conflict sociologist who pointed that conflict is most likely to develop among people in close relationships was

Lewis Coser

Cindy is interested in how the movement of Maytag production plants and other industries from the mid west to mexico has change the lives of thousands of unemployed workers and their communities. Cindy is conducting a analysis.

Macro level

Max Weber referred to the self denying approach to life characterized by people living frugal lives and saving their money as the

Protestant ethic

What distinction did sociologist Frances Perkins hold in American history

She was the first woman to hold a presidential cabinet position

The notion that only the fittest members for society deserve to survive and that social programs to help the poor will ultimately weaken the social order is a doctrine known as

Social Darwinism

The French sociologist Emile Durkheim is most identified with which of the following areas of study ?

Social integration

When sociologists group people into categories based on their age, gender, education level, job, and income, they are trying to determine

Social location

Sue is an expert in interpreting gestures, silence, the use of space, and expressions people make in their daily interactions. view of this , how would Sues expertise be defined?

Sue is an expert in nonverbal interaction

The American sociologist who focused on social analysis, developing abstract models showing how parts of society harmoniously work together, was

Talcott Parsons

What was the social event that most influenced Auguste Comte to explore patterns within society and become interested in what holds society together?

The French Revolution

The book published by WEB Du Bois in 1899 that analyzed how African Americans in a major United Stated city coped with racism was

The Philadelphia Negro

What is the use of objective and systematic observation to test theories, one that is often employed by sociologist?

The scientific method

The concept that describes opening a window into unfamiliar world that allows us to understand human behavior by placing it within its broader social context is called

The sociological perspective

What did Robert E Park, Ernest Burgess, and George Herbert Mead have in common?

They were among the first faculty members in the sociology department at the University of Chicago

Max Weber used the term Verstehen to mean

To grasp by linsight

The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, who spent his lifetime studying race relations in America and was one of the founders of the NAACP, was

WEB Du Bois

According to symbolic interventionists, the deciding factor that determines if change in society is good or bad requires

a framework or context from which to view the meaning of the change

Functionalists refer to how parts of society fit together to form a whole as

a structure

According to Max Weber, the Protestant ethic was a central factor in their birth of

capitalism

Which groups of social theorists would focus most on macro level analysis when examining patterns of society?

conflict theorist and structural functionalists

Karl Marx believed that was the central force fore social change , while Max Weber believed that was the force most responsive for social change .

economics, religion

Mark views society as a system of interrelated parts, while john views society as composed of groups competing for scarce resources. Mark would be considered an and John would be seen as an

functionalist, conflict theorist

College provides a haven for several million potential workers who are classifed as students rather than unemployed, which helps stabilize the job market. This situation represents what Merton would describe as a

latent function

According to Robert Merton are the intended beneficial consequences of peoples actions

manifest function

The scientific method requires repeating a study in order to compare the new research result which the original findings

replication

Durkheim referred to patterns of behavior that characterize a social group as

social facts

The sociological perspective emphasizes how the social context influences peoples lives, particularly how people are influenced

society

Sociologist who analyze how social life depends on the ways that people define themselves and others we most likely

symbolic interactionists

Sociology first took root as an academic disciple at in 1890

the University of Kansas

the university that dominated sociology as an academic discipline when Albion small headed the department was

the University of chicago

Conflict theorist would contend that changes in explain the high divorce rates in the United States

the male female power relationship

What quality did Max Weber stress as being the hall mark of social research?

value neutrality