Chapter 1 quiz

Making use of the sociological perspective:

All of the above are correct

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Learning more about other societies helps us better understand our own way of life

By linking specific facts together to give us meanings of life, we create a:

Lie

The social-conflict approach draws attention to ________

Patterns of social inequality

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

Personal problem into public issues

Social structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society as a whole. Which of the following concepts refers to these negative consequences?

Social dysfunctions

Emile Durkheim's Study of ___________________ showed that society affects even our most personal decisions.

Suicide

The early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim used the ________

The structural-functional approach

A simplified description unfairly applied to every person in the same category is called ________

a stereotype

Peter Berger described using the sociological perspective as seeing the __________ in the __________.

general; particular