Sociology Quiz 1
W. E. B. Du Bois described African Americans as having a "double consciousness" because ________
African Americans are American citizens who have a second identity based on their skin color
The term "sociology" was coined in 1838 by ________
Auguste Comte
Identify the three sociologists who played a part in the development of sociology's structural-functional approach.
Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim
Building friendships, intimate social relationships, and employment opportunities & networks are _____ of higher ed.
Latent functions
The sociologist who called on his colleagues to be "value-free" in the conduct of their research was _____
Max Weber
________, one of the founding sociologists, urged sociologists to understand a social setting from the point of view of the people in it.
Max Weber
C. Wright Mills claimed that the "sociological imagination" transformed ________
Personal problems into publics issues
What might a sociologist say about people's selection of marriage partners?
Typically, a person marries someone of similar social background, position/standing, status, and race.
In the United states today, the suicide rate is highest for which of the following?
White/European American males
Imagine that you were going to measure the age of a number of respondents taking part in a survey. As you record the data, you are using the concept "age" as _____
a variable
Critical sociology, as a practical venture, can best be described as a(n) __________ approach.
activist
Peter Berger describes using the sociological perspective as seeing the ______ in the _______.
general: particular
"a statement of a possible relationship between two or more variables" is the definition of which concept?
hypothesis
A theory states that increasing a person's formal higher education results in increased earnings over the individual's lifetime. In this theory, "higher education" is the ____
independent variable
According to Emile Durkheim, categories of people with a higher suicide rate typically have
lower social integration
The social-conflict approach draws attention to ____
patterns of social inequality (i.e. economic, gender, race)
The symbolic-interaction approach focuses on how ________
people experience society
Sociologists use the term "social marginality" to refer to ______
people who are defined by others as an "outsider"
Social structures sometimes have negative consequences for the operation of society as a whole. Which of the following concepts refers to these negative consequences?
social dysfunctions
Which concept is used to describe relatively stable patterns of social behavior?
social structure
The "framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflicts and change" is the _____
social-conflict approach
Which sociological research method is best used to study what cannot be directly observed, such as attitudes and values, among large numbers of people?
the survey
A statement that explains how and why specific facts are related is called a(n)
theory
Karl Marx, speaking for the social-conflict approach, argued that the point of studying society was _______
to bring about greater social equality
______ refers to measuring exactly what one intends to measure.
validity
