Soc final
The United States falls within which category of the world's nations?
High-income nations
Which pioneering sociologist founded Chicago's Hull House to assist immigrants and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
Jane Addams
_____ distinguish between right and wrong;_______ distinguish between right and rude.
Mores; folkways
The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was
Robert K. Merton
Which early U.S. black sociologist, who was a graduate of Harvard with a PhD., studied the African American community and served as a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
W.E.B. Du Bois
In the United States today, the suicide rate is highest for which of the following?
White males
Sociologists define a symbol as
anything that carries meaning to people who share a culture
Making use of the sociological perspective it.
challenges commonly-held beliefs
The term ____ refers to a shared way of life, and the term _____ refers to a political entity
cultural; nation
What is the term for the beliefs, values, behavior, and material objects that together make up the way of life for a group of people?
culture
The test describes using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _____.
general; particular
Sociology differs from the older discipline of philosophy by focusing on
how society actually operates
According to Emile Durkheim, categories of people with a higher suicide rate typically have
lower social intergration
The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as
manifest functions
Almost all of Latin America and Asia falls within which of the following categories?
middle income nations
As a part of human culture, religion is an example of
nonmaterial cultural
The intangible world of ideas created by members of a society is referred to as
nonmaterial culture
Cultural transmission refers to the process of
passing cultural patterns from one generation to another
The social-conflict approach draws attention to
patterns of social inequality in society
The Sapir-Whorf thesis states that
people see the world through the cultural lens of their language, like Arabs have a and a number of words for camels
The "sociological imagination" of C. Wright Mills transformes
personal problems into public issue
Among all forms of life, humans stand out as the only species that
relies on culture to ensure their survival
social structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society as a whole. What is the term for these negative consequences?
social dysfunction
Which concept is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behavior?
social/economic structure
Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?
sociology
The main characteristic of the _____ approach is tis view of society as being orderly and stable.
structural-function approach
The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is
the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations
Among the societal historical changes that stimulated the development of sociology this discipline arose during the
the ride of the industrial period and the growth of cities
August Comte described the earliest human societies as being at which stage of historical development?
theological stage
The chapter's sociological analysis of childbearing around the world suggests that the number of children born to a woman reflects:
whether she lives in a poor or rich society