Sociology Module 1 Quiz

Which early sociologist received the first doctorate ever awarded by Harvard University to a person of color?

W.E.B. Du Bois

The "framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change" is the ________

social-conflict approach

The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was ________

Emile Durkheim

_______, one of the founding sociologists, urged sociologists to understand a social setting from the point of view of the people in it.

Max Weber

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

Positivism

Unlike simple stereotypes, sociological generalizations ________

are based on all available facts

Learning more sociology can help you ________

assess the opportunities and constraints in our lives

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages ________

challenging many commonly-held beliefs.

Following the thinking of C. Wright Mills, we would expect the sociological imagination to be more widespread in a population ________

during times of social crisis

To evaluate a theory using evidence, sociologists

gather data or facts

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called ________

latent functions

Sociology differs from the older discipline of philosophy by focusing on ________

how society actually operates

Sociologists cannot identify "laws of society" that allow us to precisely predict the behavior of an individual because ________

human behavior may be patterned, but it is also spontaneous.

Understanding the differences between countries encourages ________

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

An example of a latent function of college is ________

keeping young people out of a tight labor force, which may not have jobs for them.

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

Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?

sociology

An apparent, although false, association between two variables that is caused by a third variable is called

spurious correlation

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

stereotype

Sociology is considered a science because

systematic, objective research methods are used.

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.

The ancient Romans saw the stars as being gods. Auguste Comte would classify Roman society as being in which of the following stages of history?

theological stage

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

theory