A Sociology Experiment

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

Study of how societies are organized and how the organization of a society influences the behavior of people

Question 2

Sociological Imagination

Answer 2

We think about our personal experience in relation to a larger set of social forces

Question 3

Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

Rapid Development of manufacturing and industry

Question 4

Division of labor

Answer 4

workers specialize in particular tasks

Question 5

Social conflict

Answer 5

struggle between groups with different interests and needs

Question 6

economic relationships

Answer 6

how goods and resources are owned and distributed

Question 7

class

Answer 7

group of people with similar positions in the economy

Question 8

labor

Answer 8

ability to do work

Question 9

wages

Answer 9

compensation for labor

Question 10

relational sociology

Answer 10

individuals are defined by their relationship to others and to institutions

Question 11

alienation

Answer 11

disconnected from others, work, and humanity

Question 12

structure

Answer 12

social forces that impact individual behavior

Question 13

solidarity

Answer 13

patterns of connection between people

Question 14

mechanical solidarity

Answer 14

everyone is connected and highly cohesive

Question 15

Organic solidarity

Answer 15

not connected personally but depend on others from division of labor

Question 16

integration

Answer 16

how tied you are to others in the community

Question 17

regulation

Answer 17

society’s use of rules to monitor members’ actions

Question 18

norms

Answer 18

expectations for behavior

Question 19

anomie

Answer 19

lack of morals or social expectations

Question 20

methodological individualism

Answer 20

individuals should be at the center of any study of society

Question 21

social action

Answer 21

behaviors produce social structures

Question 22

interpretive understanding

Answer 22

focus on the meaning that people make of their actions

Question 23

culture

Answer 23

values people hold to guide behavior

Question 24

Hull house

Answer 24

Jane Addams, house, educate, and support poor women

Question 25

Chicago school

Answer 25

sociologists who researched cities and patterns of people

Question 26

psychological wage

Answer 26

rewards white people

Question 27

status

Answer 27

social standing relative to others