SOC 110

The United States falls within which of the following categories?

High-income nations

All of the following are benefits of the sociological perspective except:

It helps us become "socialized" in a appropriate way.

Keeping young people off the streets would be a ___________ of sports.

Latent Funtion

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of the social structure are called:

Latent functions

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Learning more about other societies helps us better understand our own way of life. People the world over live in ways that are mostly the same

________________ is a research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities.

Participant observation

______________ is consistency in measurement and _____________ is actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure.

Reliability - validity

Looking at the operation of U.S. schools, the social-conflict approach might lead a sociologist to conclude that:

Society provides much better schooling to some categories of students than to others.

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

Sociology

Which theoretical approach highlights the fact that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as the meaning they attach to their behavior?

Symbolic-interaction approach

The new science of sociology was grounded on three factors. All of the following are factors except:

The protestant reformation.

By linking specific facts together to give us meaning, we create a

Theory

Two variables are said to display correlation if:

They vary together

Emile Durkheim's study on suicide concluded that categories of people with strong social ties had low suicide rates and more individualistic people had high suicide rates.

True

In the United States today, the suicide rate is highest for which of the following categories of people?

White Males

The text identifies three broad categories used to rank the level of economic development in different nations. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Working-class nations

Scientific research is most clearly expressed in the ___________, which investigates cause-and-effect relationships between two (or more) variables under controlled laboratory conditions.

experiment

Which of the following methodological orientations in sociology views reality where some categories of people dominate others?

Critical sociology

All of the following are reasons to investigate life in the world beyond our own borders except:

Many social problems that we face in the United States don't exist elsewhere.

The ideal of objectivity means that a researcher

Must strive to be personally neutral about the outcome of the research.

Read the four statements below. Which of them is NOT found within the American Sociological Association's guidelines for ethical research?

Researchers must always perform their research several times in order to ensure its accuracy.

It would be correct to say that critical sociology:

Seeks to bring about desirable social change.

The theoretical approach in sociology that views society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the:

Structural-functional approach

______________ is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.

Structural-functionalist approach

By saying that the sociological perspective shows us "the strange in the familiar," the text argues that this point of view:

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