Q1: Chapter 1

The functions that education provides for society

A functionalist analysis of education might focus on...

The student moved from being an everyday actor to being a social analyst.

A graduate student in a sociology department is taking a course on the sociology of the economy. In this class, she learns that, even though she always thought of her family as middle class, her parents' income compared to that of the rest of the country actually qualifies them as upper class. What just happened?

Microsociology

A researcher studying the interaction b/t a cashier and a customer at a grocery store would likely be doing what?

"Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. . . . All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned."

Although Karl Marx dude long before anyone had used the word "postmodern", many postmodern theorists still draw on elements of his work to inform their own theories. Given what you know about postmodernism, which of the following quotes from Marx's writings reveals his "postmodern side"?

Social bonds that held agrarian societies together.

Durkheim suggested that mechanical solidarity created the...

Normlessness, or a loss of connections to the social world.

Durkheim theorized that the rapidly changing conditions of modern life lead to anomie. What is anomie?

Religious affiliation and marital status

Emile Durkheim argued that even an action as seemingly individual as suicide has important social components. What social factors did he examine?

Members of the bourgeoisie own the means of production, while the proletariat possess only their own labor.

How does Karl Marx differentiate between members of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie?

Human society and social behavior

How is sociology different from other disciplines?

Proletariat; Bourgeoisie

Karl Marx referred to the workers as the ______ and the owners as the _____.

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.

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 perspective?

Beginner's mind

Seeing some event w/o any preconceptions in order to view things in a new way is using...

A group of people who share their lives in aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish their group from others.

Society is...

Political science, because it is concerned with politics and government, and how they affect people and society.

Sociology is a social science. What is another example of a social science?

True

T or F: Conflict theory uses a dynamic model of historical change as constant, ongoing, and inevitable

True

T or F: Emile Durkheim's pioneering work, Suicide, used data gleaned from govt records to help look for correlations b/t demographic variables and suicide. This made his work compatible with Aguste Comte's ideas about hoe society should be studied.

True

T or F: Humans are essentially social beings

Herbert Spencer

The idea that societies can evolve, and that "survival of the fittest" might apply to societies too was first discussed by...

Capitalism

What economic system emerged during the Industrial revolution?

Bureaucracies

What institutions does Max Weber believe characterize modern industrialized societies?

The sociological imagination is the ability to see the connection between self and society. The perspective include the idea as well as other like beginner mind and culture shock.

What is the main difference between sociological imagination and the sociological perspective?

Conflict Theory

Which of the following is a paradigm interested in the power imbalances within a society?

Sociological imagination

According to C. Wright Mills, what one quality of mind do all great sociologists possess?

Her translation of the work of August's Comte into English

According to Chapter 1, What was Harriet Martineau's most important contribution to the development of sociology as a discipline?

Interdependence and individual rights.

According to Emile Durkheim industrialized society display organic solidarity what is the basis for organic solidarity

A social institution that is stable over time and helps meets the needs of society.

Functional theory is very concerned with the ways that structures contribute to the stability of society. What is a structure?

The means of production

Factories, land, machines, or anything else that can be used to create more wealth, is called...

An ethnomethodologist

If you find a sociologist who studies simple greetings in hallways, the way that people pls tic tac toe or some other element of everyday interaction, what sort of sociologist have you found?

Culture Shock

If you've ever gone to a new place, and suddenly felt disoriented because the environment was so strange to you, you may have experienced:

False

T or F: Postmodern social theorist attempt to construct "grand narratives" overarching theories that give a sense of order and coherence to the world

Manifest

Teaching students to solve math problems is an example of a _____ function of education...

The ability to understand the connections between biography and history, or the interplay of the self and the world

What is the sociological imagination?

All of these are true: It allows an individual to see how his or her life is related to the bigger social context. It allows an individual to understand how his or her experiences are shaped by historical context. It allows an individual to understand how his or her beliefs are shaped by his or her culture.

Which of the following is true about the sociological imagination?

A teenager in a gothic phase is dressed all in black, reads poems about death and suicide.

Which of the following people sounds like they're experiencing anomie?

George Herbert Mead

Which of the following people's teachings would be most associated w/ Symbolic Interactionism?

Symbolic interactionism

Which of the following theories focuses on how our behaviors are dependent upon the ways we interpret, make sense of and define ourselves, others, and social situations?

Structural functionalism

Which of the following theories views society as a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together?

Postmodernism

Which school of social theory argues that everything is relative, fragmented, temporary, contingent, and ephemeral?

Macrosociology

________ is the level of analysis that studies large-scale social structures in order to understand how they affect the larger patterns and institutions of society.