Sociology 101 midterm review

A)A religious belief B)A law C)A custom D)All of the above are social facts

According to Durkheim, which of the following is NOT a social fact?

A)Qualitative B) Pathos C)Logos D)Quantitative

Alona is examining the impact of the 2011 Penn State scandal on student morale and school spirit by distributing number-scaled surveys in her Introduction to Sociology class. Alona is employing a _____ research method.

A)Structural Functionalism B)Conflict Theory C)Symbolic Interactionism D)Behaviorism

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?

A)Dynamic equilibrium B) Latent functions C)Dramaturgical analysis D)Figuration

The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior (or, the concept that the individual and society are inseparable) is referred to as:

A)The theory that man evolved slowly over time. B)The process of analyzing human behavior based solely on statistics. C)A series of interviews asking subjects about their sleep habits and dreams. D)How individuals understand their own and others' pasts in relation to history and social structure.

Please define C. Wright Mill's sociological imagination.

A) A way to explain different aspects of social interactions B) A testable proposition C) An attempt to explain large-scale relationships D) Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them

A hypothesis can be defined as:

a)latent; manifest b)manifest; manifest c)manifest; latent d) latent; latent

Political science teacher Mr. Jones asks his students to study how social media can influence public opinion by "following" famous activists, academics, and politicians on Twitter. While reading and exchanging each other's Tweets, some classmates became close friends. The first is an example of the project's ____ function, the second is an example of the project's _____ function.

A)Criticism B)Symbolic interactionism C)Constructivism D)Antipositivism

What approach is often used to understand what's defined as deviant within a society?

A)Durkheim; Communism B)Max Weber; Positivism C)Karl Marx; Communism D)Comte; Antipositivism

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

A)Symbolic Interactionists B)Conflict Theorists C)Structural Functionalists D) Social Individualists

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