Sociology (Module 1 Quiz)

Who helped launch the discipline of sociology by studying the evils of slavery and also by translating the writings of Auguste Comte?

Harriet Martineau

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

Karl Marx

A simplified description unfairly applied to every person in the same category is called ________

a stereotype

Which research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in a questionnaire or an interview?

a survey

Learning more sociology can help you

assess the opportunities and constraints in our lives

Sarah is spending a summer living in another country where people have a way of life that differs from her own. A sociologist might expect that this experience would lead her to

end up with a greater understanding of both a new way of life and her own way of life

Sociology differs from the older discipline of philosophy by focusing on

how society actually operates

An accurate criticism of the structural-functional approach is that it ________

ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict

Understanding the differences between countries encourages

increasing our understanding of both our own lives and the lives of others

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern called

latent functions

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

manifest functions

In deciding what kinds of questions to ask in their research, sociologists are guided by

one or more theoretical approaches

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

Joseph Ewoodzie's research to learn about homeless people in Jackson, Mississippi is an example of

participant observation

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

personal problems into public issues

A manifest function of sports is

providing recreation and physical conditioning

By stating that the sociological perspective shows us "the strange in the familiar," the text argues that sociologists

reject the familiar idea that people simply decide how to act in favor of the initially strange idea that society shapes our lives

A small number of people that are used to represent a much larger population is called a

sample

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

structural-functional and social-conflict

Herbert Spencer described human society as a complex system having much in common with

the human body

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

the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations

Among the historical changes that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline was

the rise of the industrial economy and growth of cities

A statement that explains how and why specific facts are related is called a

theory

The major goal of sociology's pioneers, including Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim, was ________

to discover how society actually operates

The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by

Auguste Comte