Sociology quiz 1 study guide
Who coined the phrase "the survival of the fittest"?
Herbert Spencer
What are the weaknesses of the everyday actor when it comes to everyday life?
The everyday actor makes assumptions and glosses over many things the social analyst strives to understand systematically.
Functionalist theory is very concerned with the ways in which structures contribute to the stability of society. What is a structure?
a social institution that is stable over time and helps meet the needs of society
Symbolic interactionism argues that people act toward things on the basis of their meaning. According to this perspective, how does meaning arise?
Meaning is negotiated through interaction with others.
Macrosociology and microsociology seem to make very different assumptions about how society works. How does sociology, as a discipline, deal with these two very different perspectives?
Most sociologists think of these two perspectives as being on a continuum with each other, adopting whatever perspective seems most useful for a particular problem
Max Weber believed that as bureaucratic processes became more and more prevalent in society, people would experience _____ as a result of dehumanizing features of the bureaucracies.
disenchantment
According to C. Wright Mills, what one quality of mind do all great sociologists possess?
sociological imagination