Quiz 1

which of the following peoples teachings would be most associated with symbolic interactionism?

George Herbert Mead

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

Herbert Spencer

How is sociology different from other disciplines?

Sociology is the study of human society and social behavior

which of the following theories focuses on how our behaviors or dependent upon the ways we interpret, makes sense of, and define ourselves, others, and social situations?

Symbolic interactionism

a functionalist analysis of education might focus on:

The functions that education provides for society

Conflict theory uses a dynamic model of historical change that presents change as constant, ongoing, and inevitable.

True

Emile Durkheim pioneering work, Suicide, used data gleaned from government records to help look for correlations between demographic variables and suicide. This made his work compatible with Auguste Comte's ideas about how society should be studied.

True

if you find a sociologists who studies, simple, greetings and hallways, the way that people play tic-tac-toe or some other element of every day interaction what sort of sociologists have you found?

an ethnomethodologist

Seeing some event without any preconceptions in order to view things in a new way is using?

beginner's mind

what institutions does Max Weber believe characterize modern industrialized societies?

bureaucracies

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:

culture shock

? 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

macrosociology

teaching students to solve math problems would be an example of ___ function of education

manifest

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

means of production

a researcher studying the interaction between a cashier and a customer at a grocery store would likely be doing what?

microsociology

macrosociology and microsociology seem to have very different assumptions about how society works. How does sociology as a discipline deal with these two very different perspectives..

most sociologists, think of these two perspectives, as being on a continuum with each other, adopting, whatever perspective seems more useful for a particular problem

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

normlessness or a loss of social connections

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

postmodernism

karl marx referred to the workers as the _____ and the owners as the ___

proletariat and bourgeoisie

post, modern, social theorist attempt to construct "grand narratives" overarching theories that give a sense of order and coherence to the world.

False

society is

A group of people who share their lives in aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish them from other groups

which of the following is true about the sociological imagination

All of these are true

what economic system emerged during the industrial revolution?

Capitalism

although Karl Marx die long before anyone had use the word "postmodern," mini post, modern theorist still draw an element of his words to inform their own theories. Given what you know about postmodernism, which of the following quotes from Marx's writings reveal his "postmodern side"?

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

According to Emile Durkheim, industrialized societies display organic solidarity. What is the basis for organic solidarity?

Interdependence and individual rights

how does Karl Marx differentiate between members of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie

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

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

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

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

a social institution that is stable over time and helps meet the needs of society

a graduate student in a sociology department is taking a course on the sociology of the economy. In the 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?

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

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

a teenager in a gothic phase is dressed all in black, reads poems about death and suicide, and feels as though no one really cares about him

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

conflict theory

Durkheim suggested that mechanical solidarity:

created the social bonds that held agrarian societies together

according to chapter 1, what was probably Harriet Martineau's most important contribution to the development of sociology as a discipline?

her translation of the world of Auguste Comte into English

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

religious affiliation and martial status

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

sociological imagination

which of the following theories you society as a whole unit made up of interrelated parts that work together?

structural functionalism

What is the sociological imagination?

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

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

the sociological imagination is the ability to see the connection between the self and society. The sociological perspective includes that idea, as well as others, like beginner's mind and culture shock

Humans are essentially social beings.

true