chapter 1

Question 1

what is the sociological perspective from C.Wright Mills (1959)?

Answer 1

He illustrated this idea using the great depression of the1930s

Question 2

What is sociology?

Answer 2

The systematic study of human society

Question 3

What is society?

Answer 3

People who live in a defined territory and share a culture

Question 4

Sociological perspective?

Answer 4

The special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people/ seeing the general in the particular( Berger,1963)

Question 5

What is The Latin phrase behind Manufacturing?

Answer 5

To make by hand

Question 6

What were three kinds of changes especially important in the development of sociology?

Answer 6

1. Rise of factory-based economy
   2.explosive growth of cities
   3.New ideas of democracy and political rights

Question 7

What two Centuries were big centuries of the development of sociology

Answer 7

Eighteenth and Nineteenth

Question 8

What is the definition of Global perspective?

Answer 8

The study of the larger world and our place in it

Question 9

What is enclosure movement?

Answer 9

Landowners in Europe fence off more and more land to create grazing area for sheep

Question 10

As cities grew larger, what social problems did urban migrants face?

Answer 10

Pollution, Crime, Homelessness

Question 11

Who was the french social thinker(1798-1857)

Answer 11

Auguste comte

Question 12

Who coined the term sociology?

Answer 12

Auguste Comte (1838)

Question 13

what was Auguste comte approach?

Answer 13

Positivism

Question 14

What is the metaphysical stage?

Answer 14

People come to see society as natural rather than a supernatural phenomenon (15 centuries)

Question 15

What is the Theological stage?

Answer 15

People took the religious views that society expressed gods will(0-European middles age about 1350ce)

Question 16

(Auguste comte)3 Stages of historical development?

Answer 16

1. Theological stage
2. Metaphysical stage
3. Scientific stage

Question 17

What is Positivism?

Answer 17

A scientific approach to knowledge based on “Positive” facts as opposed to mere speculation

Question 18

What is theory?

Answer 18

A statement of how and why specific facts are related

Question 19

What is a Theoretical approach?

Answer 19

Is a basic image of society that guides thinking and research

Question 20

What are the three theoretical approaches sociologists use?

Answer 20

1. Structural -Functional approach
2. Social conflict approach
3. Symbolic- Interaction approach

Question 21

What is structural- functional approach?

Answer 21

A framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability

Question 22

What is social structure?

Answer 22

Any relatively stable pattern of social behavior

Question 23

What is Social functions?

Answer 23

The consequences of social pattern for the operation of society as a whole

Question 24

What is manifest functions?

Answer 24

The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern

Question 25

What is Latent Functions?

Answer 25

The unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern.

Question 26

What US Sociologist distinguished between manifest functions and latent functions?

Answer 26

Robert K. Merton(1910-2003)

Question 27

Social dysfunction?

Answer 27

Any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society

Question 28

what is Social conflict approach?

Answer 28

A framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change