Sociology 110: Chapter 1 Quiz

_______ had an important influence on the development of the social-conflict approach.

Karl Marx

The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as ________

Manifest Functions

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

Positivism

Which of the following concepts 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

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

Theory

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

people who are defined by others as an "outsider."

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

personal problems into public issues.

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

structural-functional