Sociology Unit 1

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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"


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