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