chapter 1

Question 1

what is your social location?

Answer 1

your social location is the set of social traits that informs your views of the world around you.

Question 2

what makes up your social location?

Answer 2

Sex, age, class, ethnicity and religion.

Question 3

how does understanding social location allow us to do.

Answer 3

investigate and challenge social patters or stereotypes in an informed and critical manner.

Question 4

what do sociologists do?

Answer 4

they investigate and challenge the social patterns (stereotypes) that other people perceive.

Question 5

what does sociology help students distinguish between?

Answer 5

a well-informed opinion and an uninformed view.

Question 6

what are 3 social patterns that sociologists look at?

Answer 6

• social variables: sex, age, class, ethnicity, gender.
• social institutions: education, religion
• social interactions: family, friends, influences.

Question 7

why study sociology?

Answer 7

it helps you form a greater understanding of:
- the SOCIAL WORLD
- how YOU relate to patterns of social behaviour
- SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.

Question 8

what does the sociological imagination allow us to do?

Answer 8

• understand people’s circumstances that are shaped by social forces.
• understand the connections between personal and political.

Question 9

who coined the term sociological imagination.

Answer 9

C. Wright Mills

Question 10

when did sociology emerge and where?

Answer 10

• France, Germany and Britain
• 19th centry

Question 11

what did Max Weber explore?

Answer 11

the Protestant work ethic

Question 12

what does Weber’s German term Verstehen mean?

Answer 12

Weber used the term to understand the intention and the context of human action.

Question 13

when and why did sociology emerge in North America?

Answer 13

• 19/ early 20th century
• immigrants, the development of cities, urban life and technology.

Question 14

where was the first sociology department in North America?

Answer 14

the University of Chicago, founded in 1892

Question 15

where was the first sociology department in Canada?

Answer 15

McGill University, founded in 1922, by Carl Dawson.

Question 16

what did John Porter do?

Answer 16

examined the relationship between social class and ethnicity, coining the term Vertical Mosaic.

Question 17

what is the Vertical Mosaic?

Answer 17

the arrangement of racial, ethnic and religious groups due to racism.
-lowest class because of race

Question 18

who is Annie Marion MacLean and what did she do?

Answer 18

• she was the First Canadian woman to obtain a PhD in sociology, from U of Chicago
• She also pioneered the sociological study of working women

Question 19

who is Aileen Ross and what did she do?

Answer 19

• First woman hired as a sociologist at a Canadian university (University of Toronto)
  – She completed the first study of homeless women in Canada

Question 20

who is Helen C. Abell

Answer 20

the founder of Rural sociology in Canada.

Question 21

Sociology by approach: the 5 sociology theories? which are Macro and which are Micro

Answer 21

-Structural Functionalism: macro
- Conflict Theory: macro
-Symbolic interaction: Micro
- Feminist Theory: Macro
- Postmodern Theory: Macro

Question 22

what are Manifest functions?

Answer 22

are intended and readily recognized (seen easily, common sense)

Question 23

what are Latent Functions?

Answer 23

are unintended and unrecognized ( a side effect of the situation, something that commonly happens because of the situation but not intended)

Question 24

what are Latent Dysfunctions?

Answer 24

are unintended and produce socially negative consequences. ( so far out of left field, the most ridiculous answer)

Question 25

conflict theory and its 4 C’s?

Answer 25

conflict exists in all large societies.
-conflict
- class
-contestation (questionn)
-change

Question 26

Karl Marx

Answer 26

he thought that Society is a hierarchy and each group’s position in the hierarchy is determined by the group’s role in the production of wealth (Class)

Question 27

symbolic interactionism?

Answer 27

• Focuses on individuals and small groups and their everyday practices and interactions rather than larger groups.

Question 28

Erving Goffman: Total Institution?

Answer 28

seeks to regulate, control, and manipulate people.
-jails, boarding schools, concentration camps.

Question 29

feminist theory

Answer 29

is rooted in conflict theory.
Feminist theories address issues of systematic discrimination against women

Question 30

women in feminist theory

Answer 30

– Mary Wollstonecraft is one of Western Europe’s first feminist analysts
– Harriet Martineau is one of the first sociologists to systematically examine women’s roles in society
- Dorothy Smith Developed standpoint theory out of her discrimination in the academic community

Question 31

feminism waves?

Answer 31

First wave: campaign for civil and political rights
– Second wave: focus on public and private rights
– Third wave: inclusion of LGBTQ and racialized individuals

Question 32

Post Modern theory

Answer 32

to include a diversity of voices, especially those that are often drowned out by the powerful voice of dominant groups (white, heterosexual, middle and upper-class men)

Question 33

professional sociology

Answer 33

Research designed to generate highly specific information, often to apply it to a particular problem or intellectual question

Question 34

Critical sociology

Answer 34

“conscience of professional sociology”
* Aims to make sure that professional sociologists do not become so lost in
esoteric debates that they lose sight of the goals of sociological inquiry

Question 35

Policy sociology

Answer 35

Generates sociological data to be used in the development of social policies, laws, rules or plans

Question 36

Public Sociology

Answer 36

The role of public sociologists is to make sociology accessible to the public.