Chapter 1

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

Is the scientific study of social behavior

Question 2

Focus on social relationships how those relationship influence people’s behavior and how societies develop and change

Answer 2

Sociology

Question 3

A science guided by the by the basic understanding that “ the social matters” our lives are affected not only by our individual characteristics but by our place in the social world

Answer 3

Sociology

Question 4

Social location - corners in life

Answer 4

Job
Income
Education 
Gender
Age
Race/Ethnicity

Question 5

Sociological Imagination

Answer 5

The ability to look beyond ones own everyday life

Question 6

Ability to look beyond limiting understanding of human behavior to see the world and its people in a new way

Answer 6

Sociological Imagination

Question 7

Father of sociology , and founder of sociology

Answer 7

Auguste Comte

Question 8

Theoretical Paradigm

Answer 8

Sets of assumptions that guides thinking and research

Question 9

What are the three theoretical paradigm

Answer 9

The Structural Function Paradigm
The Social Conflict Paradigm
The Symbolic-Interaction Paradigm

Question 10

The Structural Functional

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Functionalists focus on the macro level and view society as set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social situation

Question 11

Social Structure

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Stable patterns of social behavior ( family, workplace , education)

Question 12

Social Function

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A consequence for the operation of society as whole(job)

Question 13

What are the three social Function components

Answer 13

Manifest
Latent
Dysfunction

Question 14

Manifest

Answer 14

Recongnized

Question 15

Latent

Answer 15

Unrecognized

Question 16

Dysfunction

Answer 16

Undesirable