Sociology Quiz 1
W.E.B. Du Bois described African Americans as having a "double consciousness" because
African Americans are American citizens who have a second identity based on skin color.
Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociology's structural-functional approach.
Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim
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
Who was the U.S. sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns?
Robert K. Merton
Which concept is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behavior?
Social structure
Which theoretical approach claims that it is not so much what people do that matters as much as what meaning they attach to their behavior?
Symbolic-interaction approach
What does the idea that the social world guides our actions and life choices just as the seasons influence activities and choice of clothing describe?
The essential wisdom of the discipline of sociology
Comte described the earliest human societies as being at which stage of historical development?
Theological stage
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
Which of the following examples illustrates a micro-level focus?
Two people on an airplane getting to know one another
What might a sociologist say about people's selection of marriage partners?
Typically, a person marries someone of similar social position.
Which early U.S. sociologist 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
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.
A social-conflict approach to sports would be an analysis of
how sports reflect social inequality.
Building social relationships and creating tens of thousands of jobs are two of the _________ of sports.
latent functions
Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called
latent functions.
Using the symbolic-interaction approach, sports becomes
less a system than an ongoing process of interaction.
Looking at the United States, high suicide rates are typical of areas in which people
live spread apart in rural areas.
Robert Merton explained that what is functional for people in one category of a society's population
may not be functional for people in another category.
Looking at the operation of U.S schools guided by the social-conflict approach might lead a sociologist to conclude that
our society provides some students with far better schooling than others
A social-exchange analysis states that
people typically seek mates who offer as much as they do.
A manifest function of sports is
providing recreation and physical conditioning
W. E. B. Du Bois claimed that _____ was the major problem facing the United States during the twentieth century.
race
A criticism of the symbolic-interaction approach is that it
says little about the influence of structural factors such as culture, class, gender, and race.
The main characteristic of the _____ approach is its view of society as being orderly and stable.
structural-functional
The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad, structural terms.
structural-functional and social-conflict
Sociologist Lenore Weitzman carried out research showing that women who divorce
suffer a significant loss of income.
Understanding marriage using the structural-functional approach might prompt you to consider
the consequences of marriage for the operation of society.
The structural-functional approach is concerned with
the consequences of social patterns for the operation of society.
The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is
the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations
The early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim used the
the structural-functional approach.
Examples of people applying their knowledge of sociology at work include people in medicine
understanding patterns of health in a community
