UNIT 1 Chapter 1 Review
When did sociology become established as an academic discipline in the United States?
About 1900.
Learning more sociology can help you ___.
Asses the opportunities and constraints in our lives.
The social-conflict approach sometimes receives criticism for ___.
Being openly political.
A limitation of the symbolic-interaction approach is that it ___.
Does not focus on the widespread influence of culture.
The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was ___.
Emile Durkheim.
Sociology first appeared as a formal discipline in ___.
France.
An accurate criticism of the structural-functional approach is that it ___.
Ignores inequality that can generate tension and conflict.
Using the social-conflict approach, a sociologist might highlight___.
Income differences among young people in high school.
_____ is a way of understanding the world based on science.
Positivism.
According to Auguste Comte, the type of thinking favored by people such as Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, becomes common in a society at which stage of societal development?
Scientific stage.
Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?
Sociology.
The main characteristics 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.
The theoretical approach in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the ___.
Structural-functional approach.
The structural-functional approach is concerned with____.
The consequences of social patterns for the operation of society.
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.
According to Auguste Comte, people living in Europe during the Middle Ages thought of society as ___.
An expression of God's will.
Making use of the sociological perspective encourages ___.
Challenging many commonly-held beliefs.
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.
The social-conflict approach draws attention to ___.
Patterns of social inequality.
The symbolic-interaction approach focuses on how ___.
People experience society.
A social-exchange analysis states that ___.
People typically seek mates who offer as much as they do.
C. Wright Mills claimed that the "sociological imagination" transformed___.
Personal problems into public issues.
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.
The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is ________
The product of people interacting in countless everyday situations.
A statement that explains how and why specific facts are related is called a(n)___.
Theory.