SOCIO15: Midterm (ch. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7)
The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was
Emile Durkheim
Who are the 3 sociologist we discuss about?
Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim
Two variables are said to display correlation if
They vary together in some regular way
Which of the following is the best example of a primary group?
a family gathering for a religious holiday
Science can be defined as
a logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation
An apparent, although false, association between two variables that is caused by a third variable is called
a spurious correlation
Jean Piaget's focus was on:
cognition: how people think and understand
a person who criticizes the amish farmer as backward for tilling his fields with horses and a plow instead of using a tractor is exhibiting
ethnocentrism
An act of kindness, such as opening the door for an elderly man, illustrates conforming to
folkways
Our basic drives or needs as humans are reflected in Freud's concept of:
id
A secondary group is a social group that:
is impersonal and engages in some specific activity
Formal organizations are
large secondary groups with a goal orientation
As part of the human culture, religion is an example of
nonmaterial culture
A social group toward which we feel competition or opposition is a/an:
out group
Cultural transmission refers to the process of
passing cultural patterns from one generation to the next
C. Wright Mills claimed that the "sociological imagination" transformed
personal problems into public issues
Which of the following statements comes closest to describing Erik H. Erikson's view of socialization?
personality develops over the entire life course in patterned stages
The cases of Anna, Isabelle, and Genie provide strong evidence that:
social experience has a crucial role in forming human personality
Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of human society"?
sociology
The theoretical paradigm in society that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the
structural-functional paradigm
Which research method asks subjects to respond to a series of items in a questionnaire or an interview?
survey
George Herbert Mead considered the self to be:
that part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image
Which sociological research method is most likely to produce data that will identify cause-and-effect relationship?
the experiment
Which of the following is every society's most important primary group?
the family
What is the definition of sociology?
the truth about society
The dominant values of U.S. culture share which of the following?
-belief in tradition of the past -belief in equality of condition for all -belief in individuality (correct answer: all of the above)
The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by
Auguste Comte
