Sociology Ch 1 & 2

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

Emile Durkheim

Interpretive sociology that:

Focuses on the meaning people attach to behavior

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

Gender Blindness

"An unverified statement of a relationship between variables" is the definition of which term?

Hypothesis

C. Wright Mills pointed out that sociologist awareness tends to be more widespread:

In times of crisis

Which of the following is true about critical sociology?

It seeks to bring about desirable social change

The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by:

Karl Marx

According to Comte, people begin to see society as a natural-- rather than a supernatural- phenomenon as their society enters which state of development?

Metaphysical stage

Which of the following is a manifest function of sports?

Providing recreation and physical conditioning

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

Structural-functionalism paradigm

What term refers to any change in a subjects behavior caused by the awareness of being studied?

The Hawthorne effect

Which of the following is NOT a reason that it is important to understand that world beyond our own borders?

The U.S economy has less and less to do with what goes on in other countries

Which of the following illustrates a micro level focus?

Two people on an airplane getting to know one another

What might a sociologist say about the reasons people select a marriage partner?

Typically, a person marries someone of similar social background

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

a spurious correlation

A social conflict analysis of sports might emphasize

how sports reflect social inequality

Sociologist use the term "empirical evidence" to refer to:

information people can verify with their senses

The ideal of objectivity means that a researcher:

must adopt a stance of personal neautrality toward the outcome of the research

Comte described the earliest human societies as being at which stage of society development?

theological stage

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

theoretical paradigm

A statement of how and why specific facts are related is called a:

theory

Science can be defined as:

A logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation

Sociologist cannot precisely predict any persons behavior because:

All of the above

Sociology helps us to:

All of the above

The social conflict paradigm might well lead a sociologist to highlight:

All of the above

In a questionnaire, the question, "Please express your opinions about the threat of terrorist attacks at home," is an example of which of the following?

An open ended format

If you have been accused of "androcentricity" in your research, you are being charged with:

Approaching the subject from a male prospective

Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociologys structural functional paradigm

Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim

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

Countries experiencing significant social changes

The text presents a portrait of a "global village". Which of the following descriptions of this village is true?

Half of the people do not get enough to eat

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

Manifest Functions

What is the term for the process whereby researchers repeat the same study in order to assess its accuracy?

Replication

A smaller group of people used to represent an entire population is called a:

Sample

Which sociological research method saves the time and expense of data gathering, but the researcher has no control over possible data bias?

Secondary analysis

Social Structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society as a whole. What is the term for these negative comments?

Social Dysfunctions

Which term is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behavior?

Social Structure

Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of social behavior?

Sociology

The ------ paradigms are macro level approaches that paint societies in broad strokes

Structural functional and social conflict

Which of the following historical changes is NOT among the factors that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline?

The founding of the Roman Catholic church

The basic idea of the symbolic interaction paradigm is that society is:

The product of people interacting in everyday situations

What term refers to measuring exactly what on intends to measure?

Validity

The U.S sociologist who studied the African- American community and served as a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was:

W.E.B Du Bois

Peter Berger described using the sociological perspective as seeing the ----- in the ------

general in the particular

The major goal of sociologys pioneers, such as Comte and Durkheim, was:

to discover how society actually operates

Inductive logical thought involves:

transforming specific observations into general theory