Chapter 1

Question 1

Sociological Imaginantion

Answer 1

A point of view that highlights how society affects the experiences we have and the choices we make.

Question 2

Sociology

Answer 2

The systematic study oh human societies

Question 3

Society

Answer 3

People who live within some territory and share many patterns of behavior.

Question 4

Culture

Answer 4

A way of life including widespread values (about what is good or bad), beliefs (about what is true), and behavior (what people do everyday).

Question 5

Social Problem

Answer 5

A condition that undermines the well-being of some or all members of a society and is usually a matter of public controversy.

Question 6

Social Constructive Approach

Answer 6

The assertion that social problems arise as people define conditions as undesirable and in need of change.

Question 7

Claims Making

Answer 7

The process of convincing the public and impotyant public officials that a particular issue or situation should be defined as a social problem.

Question 8

A Social Movement

Answer 8

An organized effort at claims making that tries to shape the way people think about an issue in order to encourage or discourage social change.

Question 9

4 Stages of a Social Movement

Answer 9

1. Emergence (more than one person recognizes a problem and wants to change it)
2. Coalescence (new organization begins rallyinng and lobbying)
3. Formalization (happens once the movement becomes established in the political scene)
4. Decline (either problem is solved , or things wen wrong)

Question 10

8 Assertions of social problems

Answer 10

1. social problems result from the ways in which society opperates.
2. Social problems are not caused by bad people
3. Problems are socially constructed as people define a condition as hamful and in need of change.
4. People see problems differently
5. Definitions of a problem change over time.

6 Problems involve subjective as well as objective values.

7. Many,but not all, social problems can be solved
8. Various social problems are related.

Question 11

Theory

Answer 11

A statement of how and why specific facts are related

Question 12

Theoretical Approach

Answer 12

A basic image of society that guides theory and research.

Question 13

Structural-Functionalist Theory

Answer 13

A theoretical framework that sees society asa system of many interrelated parts.

Question 14

Social Institutions

Answer 14

Major spheres of social life, or societal subsystems organized to meet a basic human need.