Quiz 1
which of the following peoples teachings would be most associated with symbolic interactionism?
George Herbert Mead
the idea that societies can evolve and that "survival of the fittest" might apply to societies too was first discussed by:
Herbert Spencer
How is sociology different from other disciplines?
Sociology is the study of human society and social behavior
which of the following theories focuses on how our behaviors or dependent upon the ways we interpret, makes sense of, and define ourselves, others, and social situations?
Symbolic interactionism
a functionalist analysis of education might focus on:
The functions that education provides for society
Conflict theory uses a dynamic model of historical change that presents change as constant, ongoing, and inevitable.
True
Emile Durkheim pioneering work, Suicide, used data gleaned from government records to help look for correlations between demographic variables and suicide. This made his work compatible with Auguste Comte's ideas about how society should be studied.
True
if you find a sociologists who studies, simple, greetings and hallways, the way that people play tic-tac-toe or some other element of every day interaction what sort of sociologists have you found?
an ethnomethodologist
Seeing some event without any preconceptions in order to view things in a new way is using?
beginner's mind
what institutions does Max Weber believe characterize modern industrialized societies?
bureaucracies
if you've ever gone to a new place, and suddenly felt disoriented because the environment was so strange to you, you may have experienced:
culture shock
? is the level of analysis that studies large-scale social structures in order to understand how they affect the larger patterns and institutions of society
macrosociology
teaching students to solve math problems would be an example of ___ function of education
manifest
Factories, land, machines, or anything else that can be used to create more wealth, is called
means of production
a researcher studying the interaction between a cashier and a customer at a grocery store would likely be doing what?
microsociology
macrosociology and microsociology seem to have very different assumptions about how society works. How does sociology as a discipline deal with these two very different perspectives..
most sociologists, think of these two perspectives, as being on a continuum with each other, adopting, whatever perspective seems more useful for a particular problem
Durkheim theorized that the rapidly changing conditions of modern life lead to anomie. What is anomie?
normlessness or a loss of social connections
which school is social theory argues that everything is relative, fragmented, temporary, contingent, and ephemeral?
postmodernism
karl marx referred to the workers as the _____ and the owners as the ___
proletariat and bourgeoisie
post, modern, social theorist attempt to construct "grand narratives" overarching theories that give a sense of order and coherence to the world.
False
society is
A group of people who share their lives in aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish them from other groups
which of the following is true about the sociological imagination
All of these are true
what economic system emerged during the industrial revolution?
Capitalism
although Karl Marx die long before anyone had use the word "postmodern," mini post, modern theorist still draw an element of his words to inform their own theories. Given what you know about postmodernism, which of the following quotes from Marx's writings reveal his "postmodern side"?
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoxy from all earlier ones.... all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.
According to Emile Durkheim, industrialized societies display organic solidarity. What is the basis for organic solidarity?
Interdependence and individual rights
how does Karl Marx differentiate between members of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie
Members of the bourgeoisie own the means of production, while the proletariat possess only their own labor.
Sociology is a social science. What is another example of a social science?
Political science, because it is concerned with politics and government, and how they affect people and society
functionalist theory is very concerned with the ways that structures contribute to the stability of society. What is a structure
a social institution that is stable over time and helps meet the needs of society
a graduate student in a sociology department is taking a course on the sociology of the economy. In the class, she learns that, even though she always thought of her family as middle class, her parents' income compared to that of the rest of the country actually qualifies them as upper class. what just happened?
a student moved from being an everyday actor to being a social analyst
which of the following people sounds like they're experiencing anomie?
a teenager in a gothic phase is dressed all in black, reads poems about death and suicide, and feels as though no one really cares about him
which of the following is a paradigm interested in the power imbalances within a society?
conflict theory
Durkheim suggested that mechanical solidarity:
created the social bonds that held agrarian societies together
according to chapter 1, what was probably Harriet Martineau's most important contribution to the development of sociology as a discipline?
her translation of the world of Auguste Comte into English
Emile Durkheim argued that even an action as seemingly individual as suicide has important social components. What social factors did he examine?
religious affiliation and martial status
according to C. Wright Mills, what one quality of mind do all great sociologist possess?
sociological imagination
which of the following theories you society as a whole unit made up of interrelated parts that work together?
structural functionalism
What is the sociological imagination?
the ability to understand the connections between biography and history, or the interplay of the self and the world
What is the main difference between the sociological imagination and the sociological perspective
the sociological imagination is the ability to see the connection between the self and society. The sociological perspective includes that idea, as well as others, like beginner's mind and culture shock
Humans are essentially social beings.
true