Sociology unit 1

which of the following is a good example of "seeing society in our everyday lives"?

Emile Durkheim's description of how suicide is caused by degrees of social integration and regulation

Auguste Comte's law of three stages identified historical development as passing through all of the stages below EXCEPT:

Industrial stage- major changes in the system of production

which of the following people had an important influence on the development of the social conflict approach?

Karl marx

___________ are those consequences of social patterns that are intended and obvious, while ___________ are those often unrecognized and unintended consequences of social patterns.

Manifest functions; latent functions

"looking beyond the taken-for-granted social world to discover different levels of explaining reality" defines:

Peter Berger's concept of the debunking motif

Major league baseball is a major institution in American society. It provides entertainment for millions of people every summer in stadiums across the country and also serves as a major corporate entity. This explanation is an example of the:

Structural-functional approach

The "primary" research method most often used by sociologists to collect large amounts of data is:

Survey research

a small number of people used by researchers to represent an entire population is called:

a sample

sociologists who use the experimental method:

all of these apply to the experimental method

the conflict approach in sociology investigates how social patterns benefit some people while hurting others. This includes:

all of these statements apply to the conflict approach

the improvements in the printing press made by Johannes Gutenberg:

contributed to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment

symbolic interaction is a micro sociological approach because it tries to explain how all the major institutions of society fit together to form a giant organism (biological analogy) TRUE/FALSE

false

_______ is a way of understanding the world based on science.

positivism

Which of the following is generally true of researchers setting out to conduct fieldwork?

researchers are open to the definitions of reality created by the subjects they are observing.

which of the following can correctly be called the "framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generate conflict and change"?

social-conflict approach

which theoretical approach in sociology leads us to see society as orderly and stable, and looks for ways that social solidarity is maintained?

structural-functional approach

understanding the ways that social categories affect our personal life choices describes:

the sociological perspective

All but one of the following historical tends stimulated the development of sociology. Which one trend DID NOT?

the spread of the roman catholic religion (Dark Ages)

A survey is a research method in which subjects respond to a series of items or questions. TRUE/FALSE

true

Symbolic-interaction is a sociological approach that assumes that people create reality as the interact with each other in everyday situations TRUE/FALSE

true