SOCY 1003 Chapter 1 Quiz

Weber's proposal of antipositivism influenced sociological researchers to ______ while examining different social worlds.

Gain a subjective understanding of human cultural norms

Verstehen is defined by the text as:

To understand in a deep way

According to Durkheim, which of the following is NOT a social fact? -a religious belief -A law -A custom - All of the above are social facts

All the above are social facts

Which of the following men coined the term positivism, and is widely considered the father of sociology? -Auguste Comte -Karl Marx -Max Weber -Emile Durkheim

Auguste Comte

Jeremy wrote an essay criticizing the college admissions process, arguing that heavy competition and limited educational resources make admission difficult for the average student. Which perspective would Jeremy's argument fall under? -Structural Functionalism -Conflict Theory -Symbolic Interactionism -Behaviorism

Conflict Theory

Please define C. Wright Mill's sociological imagination.

How individuals understand their own and others' pasts relation to history and social structure.

____ believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production and greatly favored ____.

Karl Marx; Communism

A paradigm can be defined as: -Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them. - The social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion -The consequences of a social process that are sought or anticipated -Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society

Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.

_____ view society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals who make up that society.

Structural Functionalists

After weeks of protest in Zuccotti Park, NYC's "Occupy Wall Street" divided into two camps: one composed of higher income protestors, and one composed of lower-income protesters. A ______ would be most interested in the relationship and nature of day-to- day exchanges between the two groups. -Conflict Theorist -Structural functionalist -Symbolic interactionist -Feminist conflict theorist

Symbolic interactionist