Sociology Ch 1 & 2
The pioneering sociologist who studied patterns of suicide in Europe was:
Emile Durkheim
Interpretive sociology that:
Focuses on the meaning people attach to behavior
Failing to consider the possible importance of gender in a sociological study describes the problem called:
Gender Blindness
"An unverified statement of a relationship between variables" is the definition of which term?
Hypothesis
C. Wright Mills pointed out that sociologist awareness tends to be more widespread:
In times of crisis
Which of the following is true about critical sociology?
It seeks to bring about desirable social change
The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by:
Karl Marx
According to Comte, people begin to see society as a natural-- rather than a supernatural- phenomenon as their society enters which state of development?
Metaphysical stage
Which of the following is a manifest function of sports?
Providing recreation and physical conditioning
The theoretical paradigm in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the:
Structural-functionalism paradigm
What term refers to any change in a subjects behavior caused by the awareness of being studied?
The Hawthorne effect
Which of the following is NOT a reason that it is important to understand that world beyond our own borders?
The U.S economy has less and less to do with what goes on in other countries
Which of the following illustrates a micro level focus?
Two people on an airplane getting to know one another
What might a sociologist say about the reasons people select a marriage partner?
Typically, a person marries someone of similar social background
An apparent, although false, association between two variables that is caused by some third variable is called:
a spurious correlation
A social conflict analysis of sports might emphasize
how sports reflect social inequality
Sociologist use the term "empirical evidence" to refer to:
information people can verify with their senses
The ideal of objectivity means that a researcher:
must adopt a stance of personal neautrality toward the outcome of the research
Comte described the earliest human societies as being at which stage of society development?
theological stage
What is the term for a basic image of society that guides thinking and research?
theoretical paradigm
A statement of how and why specific facts are related is called a:
theory
Science can be defined as:
A logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation
Sociologist cannot precisely predict any persons behavior because:
All of the above
Sociology helps us to:
All of the above
The social conflict paradigm might well lead a sociologist to highlight:
All of the above
In a questionnaire, the question, "Please express your opinions about the threat of terrorist attacks at home," is an example of which of the following?
An open ended format
If you have been accused of "androcentricity" in your research, you are being charged with:
Approaching the subject from a male prospective
Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociologys structural functional paradigm
Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim
Historically, the sociological perspective was most likely to develop in:
Countries experiencing significant social changes
The text presents a portrait of a "global village". Which of the following descriptions of this village is true?
Half of the people do not get enough to eat
The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as:
Manifest Functions
What is the term for the process whereby researchers repeat the same study in order to assess its accuracy?
Replication
A smaller group of people used to represent an entire population is called a:
Sample
Which sociological research method saves the time and expense of data gathering, but the researcher has no control over possible data bias?
Secondary analysis
Social Structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society as a whole. What is the term for these negative comments?
Social Dysfunctions
Which term is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behavior?
Social Structure
Which discipline defines itself as "the systematic study of social behavior?
Sociology
The ------ paradigms are macro level approaches that paint societies in broad strokes
Structural functional and social conflict
Which of the following historical changes is NOT among the factors that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline?
The founding of the Roman Catholic church
The basic idea of the symbolic interaction paradigm is that society is:
The product of people interacting in everyday situations
What term refers to measuring exactly what on intends to measure?
Validity
The U.S sociologist who studied the African- American community and served as a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was:
W.E.B Du Bois
Peter Berger described using the sociological perspective as seeing the ----- in the ------
general in the particular
The major goal of sociologys pioneers, such as Comte and Durkheim, was:
to discover how society actually operates
Inductive logical thought involves:
transforming specific observations into general theory
