Chapter 1: The Sociological Perspective
Which term refers to a mental construct a represent some part of the world
A concept
By what process does a researcher attach value to A concept so that it becomes a variable
A measurement
A small number of people use by researchers to represent the entire population is called
A sample
A sociological view if going to college highlights the effects of
Age, class and history
Unlike simple stereotypes, sociological generalizations
All of the above are correct
According to comte, during the Middle Ages most people in Europe thought if society as
An expression of gods will
Sociology helps us to
Assist opportunities in our lives, assist to constraints in our lives, be more active participants in society
The term sociology was going to 1838 by
August's comte
Two variables are said to display correlation if
Change in one causes no change in the other
Historically, the social logical perspective was most likely to develop in
Countries experiencing significant social changes
People in which category noted below are most likely to make use of the socialogical perspective
Disabled or gay persons
Which of the following is not a reason that is important to understand the world beyond our borders
Do US economy has less and less to do with what goes on in other countries
In which of the countries noted below to sociology as a form of discipline appear first
France
Using which of the following methods with a researcher must likely to reveal information about herself or her subject
Interviews
A commonly used statistic that results from adding all scores and divided by the number of scores is called the
Mean
According to comte, people begin to see society as a natural rather than a supernatural phenomenon as their society enters which stage of development
Metaphysical stage
Thomas Hobbes's idea that so overt reflects a selfish human nature illustrates the thinking common at which of comte's stages of societal development
Metaphysical stage
C.wright mills claimed that the social logical imagination transformed
Personal problems into public issues
By saying that the sociological perspective shows us "the strange in the familiar" the text argues that sociologists:
Reject the familiar idea that people simple decide how to act in favor of the initially strange idea that society shapes our lives
The framework for building theory that she society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change is the
Social conflict paradigm
Which disciple defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?
Sociology
The theoretical paradigm in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the
Structural-functional paradigm
Sociologist claimed that one way to learn more about ourselves is to
Study people different from us, except what people call common sense, assume that people would live reflect the choices they make
The statement that the social world guides our actions and life choices just as the season influence activities and clothing describes
The essential wisdom of the discipline of sociology
The method of sociological research proceeded to identify cause and effect is
The experiment
Herbert Spencer describe human society is having much in common with
The human body
Which of the following historical changes is not among the factors that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline?
The rise of an industrial economy
What is the term for a basic image of society that guides thinking and research
Theoretical paradigm
What might sociologist say about the reasons people select a marriage partner?
Typically, a person marries someone of smilies social background
Studying the meaning people attached there every day lives is the search for
Understanding
The early sociologist who received the first doctorate ever awarded by Harvard university to a person of color was
W.E.B Du Bois
Science can be defined as
a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation
Sociologist use the term social marginality to refer to
Being defined as an outsider
Making use of the social logical perspective encourages
Challenging commonly held belief
The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was
Emile Durkheim
C.Wright Mills pointed out the social logical awareness times to be more widespread
In times of crisis
Sociologist use a concert empirical evidence to refer to
Information people can verify with their senses
Which of the following is true about positivist sociology
It focuses on the meaning people attached to behavior
_____ is a way of understanding the world based on science
Positivism
Comte describes the earliest human societies as being at which stage of societal development
Theological stage
The major goal of sociology's pioneers, such as comte and Durkheim, was:
Theological stage
In the United States today, the suicide rate is highest for which category if people noted below
White males
Why have sociologists not identified "laws of society" that allow us to predict individual human behavior
because human behavior is both complex and spontaneous
To evaluate a theory, sociologists
gather data or facts
Peter Berger describes using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _______.
general to particular
Sociology difference from earlier for last week by focusing on
how society actually operates
The ideal of objectivity means that a researcher:
must strive to be personally neutral about the outcome of the research
In deciding what kinds of questions to ask in their research, sociologists are guided by
one or more theoretical paradigms
Which term is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behavior
social structure
A statement of how and why specific facts are related is called a:
theory
