Sociology Module 1 Quiz
Which early sociologist received the first doctorate ever awarded by Harvard University to a person of color?
W.E.B. Du Bois
The "framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change" is the ________
social-conflict approach
The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was ________
Emile Durkheim
_______, one of the founding sociologists, urged sociologists to understand a social setting from the point of view of the people in it.
Max Weber
_____ is a way of understanding the world based on science.
Positivism
Unlike simple stereotypes, sociological generalizations ________
are based on all available facts
Learning more sociology can help you ________
assess the opportunities and constraints in our lives
Making use of the sociological perspective encourages ________
challenging many commonly-held beliefs.
Following the thinking of C. Wright Mills, we would expect the sociological imagination to be more widespread in a population ________
during times of social crisis
To evaluate a theory using evidence, sociologists
gather data or facts
Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called ________
latent functions
Sociology differs from the older discipline of philosophy by focusing on ________
how society actually operates
Sociologists cannot identify "laws of society" that allow us to precisely predict the behavior of an individual because ________
human behavior may be patterned, but it is also spontaneous.
Understanding the differences between countries encourages ________
increasing our understanding of both of our own lives and the lives of others.
An example of a latent function of college is ________
keeping young people out of a tight labor force, which may not have jobs for them.
C. Wright Mills claimed that the "sociological imagination" transformed ________
personal problems into public issues
A manifest function of sports is ________
providing recreation and physical conditioning
Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?
sociology
An apparent, although false, association between two variables that is caused by a third variable is called
spurious correlation
A simplified description unfairly applied to every person in the same category is called ________
stereotype
Sociology is considered a science because
systematic, objective research methods are used.
The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is ________
the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations.
Among the historical changes that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline was ________
the rise of the industrial economy and growth of cities.
The ancient Romans saw the stars as being gods. Auguste Comte would classify Roman society as being in which of the following stages of history?
theological stage
A statement that explains how and why specific facts are related is called a(n) ________
theory