Chapter 1 Quiz

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_________, one of the founding sociologists, urged sociologists to understand a social setting from the point of view of the people in it.

max weber

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.

Social problems in the United States, such as poverty and gender inequality, are ________

more serious in poorer countries.

Who helped launch the discipline of sociology by studying the evils of slavery and also by translating the writing if Auguste Comte?

Harriet Martineau

According to Auguste Comte, people begin to try to understand how social life operates as their society enters which stage of development?

Scientific stage

The early sociologist 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

Unlike simple stereotypes, sociological generalizations _____.

are based on all available facts

Learning more sociology ca help you ____.

assess the opportunities and constraints in our lives

The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by ________

auguste comte

To evaluate a theory using evidence, sociologists

gather data or facts

The United States falls within which category if the world's nations?

high-income nations

A social-conflict approach to sports would be an analysis of ____.

how sports reflect inequality

Using the social-conflict approach, a sociologist might highlight ________

income differences among young people in high school

________ had an important influence on the development of the social-conflict approach.

karl marx

An example of a latent function of college is ________.

keeping young people out of a tight labor force, which may not have jobs for them.

Building social relationships and creating tens of thousands of jobs are two f the ____ of sports.

latent functions

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called _____.

latent functions

In deciding what kinds of questions to ask in their research, sociologists are guided by ________

one or more theoretical approaches

The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is ________

the product of people interacting in countless everyday situations

About 1 million immigrants enter the United States each year and many (including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gloria Estefan) have become well known. These facts support the conclusion that ________

the world's nations are increasingly interconnected

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

Karl Marx, speaking for the social-conflict approach, argued that the point of studying society was _____.

to bring about greater social equality

The major goal of sociology's pioneers, including Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim, was ________

to discover how society actually operates

A symbolic-interaction analysis of sports would conclude that ____.

winning at sports means different things to different people

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

the term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by ___.

Auguste Comte

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

Looking at the operation of U.S. schools guided by social-conflict approach might lead a sociologist to conclude that ____.

our society provides some students with far better schooling than others.

The social-conflict approach draws attention to ________

patterns of social inequality

Sociologist use the term "social marginality to ______.

people who are defined by others as an "outsider."

_____ is a way of understanding the world based on science.

positivism

W. E. B. Du Bois claimed that ________ was the major problem facing the United States during the twentieth century.

race

By stating that the sociological perspective shows us "the strange in the familiar," the text argues that sociologists ________

reject the familiar idea that people simply decide how to act in favor of the initially strange idea that society shapes our lives.

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

Most of today's sociologists agree with Auguste Comte's claim that ________

science has an important place in sociology

Social structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society as a whole. Which of the following concepts refers to these negative consequences?

social dysfunctions

The "framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change" is the _____.

social-conflict approach

Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?

sociology

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


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