Sociology Quiz 1

W. E. B. Du Bois described African Americans as having a "double consciousness" because ________

African Americans are American citizens who have a second identity based on their skin color

The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by ________

Auguste Comte

Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociology's structural-functional approach.

Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim

Building friendships, intimate social relationships, and employment opportunities & networks are _____ of higher ed.

Latent functions

The sociologist who called on his colleagues to be "value-free" in the conduct of their research was _____

Max Weber

________, one of the founding sociologists, urged sociologists to understand a social setting from the point of view of the people in it.

Max Weber

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

Personal problems into publics issues

What might a sociologist say about people's selection of marriage partners?

Typically, a person marries someone of similar social background, position/standing, status, and race.

In the United states today, the suicide rate is highest for which of the following?

White/European American males

Imagine that you were going to measure the age of a number of respondents taking part in a survey. As you record the data, you are using the concept "age" as _____

a variable

Critical sociology, as a practical venture, can best be described as a(n) __________ approach.

activist

Peter Berger describes using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _______.

general: particular

"a statement of a possible relationship between two or more variables" is the definition of which concept?

hypothesis

A theory states that increasing a person's formal higher education results in increased earnings over the individual's lifetime. In this theory, "higher education" is the ____

independent variable

According to Emile Durkheim, categories of people with a higher suicide rate typically have

lower social integration

The social-conflict approach draws attention to ____

patterns of social inequality (i.e. economic, gender, race)

The symbolic-interaction approach focuses on how ________

people experience society

Sociologists use the term "social marginality" to refer to ______

people who are defined by others as an "outsider"

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

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

social structure

The "framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflicts and change" is the _____

social-conflict approach

Which sociological research method is best used to study what cannot be directly observed, such as attitudes and values, among large numbers of people?

the survey

A statement that explains how and why specific facts are related is called a(n)

theory

Karl Marx, speaking for the social-conflict approach, argued that the point of studying society was _______

to bring about greater social equality

______ refers to measuring exactly what one intends to measure.

validity