Sociology Quiz 1

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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 skin color.

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

Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim

The United States falls within which category of the world's nations?

High-income nations

Which pioneering sociologist founded Chicago's Hull House to assist immigrants and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

Jane Addams

Who was the U.S. sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns?

Robert K. Merton

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

Social structure

Which theoretical approach claims that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as what meaning they attach to their behavior?

Symbolic-interaction approach

What does the idea that the social world guides our actions and life choices just as the seasons influence activities and choice of clothing describe?

The essential wisdom of the discipline of sociology

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

Theological stage

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

Which of the following examples illustrates a micro-level focus?

Two people on an airplane getting to know one another

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

Typically, a person marries someone of similar social position.

Which early U.S. sociologist studied the African American community and served as a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

W. E. B. Du Bois

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.

A social-conflict approach to sports would be an analysis of

how sports reflect social inequality.

Building social relationships and creating tens of thousands of jobs are two of the _________ of sports.

latent functions

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called

latent functions.

Using the symbolic-interaction approach, sports becomes

less a system than an ongoing process of interaction.

Looking at the United States, high suicide rates are typical of areas in which people

live spread apart in rural areas.

Robert Merton explained that what is functional for people in one category of a society's population

may not be functional for people in another category.

Looking at the operation of U.S schools guided by the social-conflict approach might lead a sociologist to conclude that

our society provides some students with far better schooling than others

A social-exchange analysis states that

people typically seek mates who offer as much as they do.

A manifest function of sports is

providing recreation and physical conditioning

W. E. B. Du Bois claimed that _____ was the major problem facing the United States during the twentieth century.

race

A criticism of the symbolic-interaction approach is that it

says little about the influence of structural factors such as culture, class, gender, and race.

The main characteristic of the _____ approach is its view of society as being orderly and stable.

structural-functional

The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad, structural terms.

structural-functional and social-conflict

Sociologist Lenore Weitzman carried out research showing that women who divorce

suffer a significant loss of income.

Understanding marriage using the structural-functional approach might prompt you to consider

the consequences of marriage for the operation of society.

The structural-functional approach is concerned with

the consequences of social patterns for the operation of society.

The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is

the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations

The early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim used the

the structural-functional approach.

Examples of people applying their knowledge of sociology at work include people in medicine

understanding patterns of health in a community


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