Sociology Unit 1
What is the difference between a manifest function and a latent function?
A manifest function is the intended and recognized consequence of some element of society. For example, a manifest function of the automobile is to provide speedy transportation from one location to another. A latent function is the unintended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society. A latent function of the automobile is to gain social standing through the display of wealth.
What is the difference between anthropology and sociology?
Anthropology, the comparative study of past and present cultures, is most similar to sociology in its subject matter. Anthropologists have traditionally concentrated on examining past cultures and less advanced societies. Sociology is different from anthropology in that it is interested in group behavior in more advanced societies.
The study of the choices people make in an effort to satisfy their needs and wants.
Economics
A latent function is the intended and recognized consequence of some element of society.
False
Basic components of a culture vary from society to society.
False
By adopting a sociological imagination, you can look beyond commonly held beliefs to the hidden meanings behind human actions.
False
Individual culture traits combine to form culture patterns.
False
Mores are norms that do not have great moral significance attached to them.
False
People who employ the interactionist perspective focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change.
False
Political science is the study of past events.
False
Psychology is the social science that studies human society and social behavior.
False
Social sciences are the observable facts or events that involve human society.
False
The features of a culture can be divided into three levels of complexity: traits, folkways, and patterns.
False
The most complex level of culture is the culture trait.
False
Study of the organization and operation of governments.
Political science
The study of how the social environment affects an individual's behavior and personality.
Social Psychology
A dysfunction is the negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system.
True
Culture consists of all the shared products of human groups.
True
Society consists of people, and culture consists of the material and nonmaterial products that people create.
True
Symbolic interaction is where interactionists focus on how people use symbols when interacting.
True
Principle that involves an attempt to understand the meanings individuals attach to their actions.
Verstehen
The game of basketball is considered
a culture complex.
A theory is
an explanation of the relationships among particular phenomena.
The comparative study of past and present cultures.
anthropology
A symbol is
anything that represents something else.
People who focus on the forces in society that promote competition and change employ the
conflict perspective.
Containing a negative consequence for the stability of the social system.
dysfunctional
An interactionist perspective
focuses on how people use symbols when interacting.
The view of society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system.
functionalist perspective
The study of past events.
history
The unintended and unrecognized consequence of an element of society.
latent function
An intended and recognized consequence of some element of society is a
manifest function
The physical objects that people create and use form a group's
material culture.
Does the bourgeoisie or the proletariat represent workers?
proletariats
What social science, which deals with the behavior and thinking of organisms, differs from sociology primarily in that it focuses on individual behavior rather than on group behavior?
psychology
The principle of Verstehen involves
putting yourself in the place of others and trying to see situations through their eyes.
Sociologists refer to observable facts or events that involve human society as
social phenomena
A viewing of the behavior of groups in a systematic way.
sociological perspective
By adopting a ____, you can look beyond commonly held beliefs to the hidden meanings behind human actions.
sociological perspective
The social science that studies human society and social behavior is
sociology
Anything that represents something else.
symbol
Karl Marx believed that society is divided into what two classes?
the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
Anthropology is
the comparative study of past and present cultures.
Political science is
the examination of the organization and operation of governments.
The ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life is what sociologist C. Wright Mills called
the sociological imagination
A general set of assumptions about the nature of things.
theoretical perspective
Technology is
what sociologists sometimes refer to as the combination of objects and rules.
What was the phrase that was coined by Herbert Spencer to describe only the fittest societies surviving over time, thus upgrading the world as a whole?
"survival of the fittest"
