Chapter 1

Question 1

What is Sociology?

Answer 1

The study of human social life

Question 2

Social Structure

Answer 2

Patterns that constrain how society functions and interacts and sets the framework for behavior, patterns and norms that occur, and patterns that govern regularities in society.

Question 3

Social Construct of Reality

Answer 3

Idea or practice that a group of people have come to agree on to mean something. Possibly giving one group an advantage over another. Idea that is real in society, yet created by society.

Question 4

What is an example of a Social Construct of Reality?

Answer 4

The idea that waving one’s hand means hello. Or gender- making men and women mean something in society.

Question 5

Rationalization of Society

Answer 5

Idea created by Max Weber and is the concept and process that modern society has become obsessed with the efficiency, predictability, calculability, and dehumanization.