Chapter 1 powerpoint pt. 1

Question 1

the scientific study of human society, social structures and dynamics.

Answer 1

sociology

Question 2

Sociology is the systematic study of social ____, social _______ and the social ______ of human behavior

Answer 2

life
change
causes

Question 3

Sociology is the systematic study of social life, social change and the social causes of ______ _________

Answer 3

human behavior

Question 4

__________ focuses on individual and biological causes of human behavior

Answer 4

Psychology

Question 5

Sociologists do this by investigating anything from intimate ______ to large ____________ and __________

Answer 5

groups
organizations
institutions

Question 6

Sociology’s scope and relevance is very ______

Answer 6

broad

Question 7

Sociology’s ______ and ___________ is very broad

Answer 7

relevance

Question 8

What is the difference between Casual Observation and Systematic Observation?

Answer 8

Observations are the basis of sociology

Initial observations can inform hypotheses, but not yet verified by systematic observation and data analysis.

Question 9

Sociology = _________ ___________/scientific method

Answer 9

systematic observations

Question 10

Sociology = systematic observations/_________ ________

Answer 10

scientific method

Question 11

How is sociology like the matrix?

Answer 11

Helps see hidden patterns and truths

Question 12

Who coined the term the sociological imagination?

Answer 12

C. Wright Mills

Question 13

Who wrote “The Sociological Imagination”?

Answer 13

C Wright Mills

Question 14

The sociological imagination:

Connects _________ with _______

Answer 14

biography

history

Question 15

The sociological imagination:

Connects ________ troubles with ________ issues .

Answer 15

personal

public

Question 16

The Sociological Imagination makes the familiar _______

Answer 16

strange

Question 17

The key distinction in the sociological imagination is between ‘the personal ________ of milieu [social environment]’ and ‘the public _______ of social structure.’

Answer 17

troubles

issues

Question 18

“________________________________________ and within the range of his or her immediate relations with others; they have to do with one’s self and with those limited areas of social life of which one is directly and personally aware…A trouble is a private matter.”

Answer 18

Troubles occur within the character of the individual

Question 19

_______ have to do with matters that transcend these local environments of the individual and the range of her inner life.

Answer 19

Issues

Question 20

Issues have to do with ________ ____ _________ ______ _____ _____________ __ ___ ________ and the range of her inner life.

Answer 20

matters that transcend these local environments of the individual

Question 21

An issue is a ______ matter

Answer 21

public

Question 22

A sociological lens allows one to view the world from different ___________ and challenge conventional _______.

Answer 22

perspectives

wisdom

Question 23

A sociological ____ allows one to view the world from different perspectives and challenge conventional wisdom.

Answer 23

lens

Question 24

How does the social environment affect the individual?

Answer 24

1. Peers
2. Family
3. Gender roles
4. Social Class
5. Race/ethnicity
6. People in neighborhood

Question 25

Sociology focuses on making comparisons across cases to find ________ and create ___________ about how ________ work now or how they worked in the past.

Answer 25

patterns
hypotheses
societies

Question 26

What is the difference between sociology, history & anthropology, psychology & biology, and political science?

Answer 26

1. History and anthropology -tend to focus more on particular circumstances.
2. Psychology and biology, examine things on a more micro level than sociology does, and economics is an entirely quantitative discipline.
3. Political science, focuses on one aspect of social relations – power.

Question 27

Which of the following is an example of using one’s sociological imagination?
A. being in unfamiliar surroundings and imagining being in a more comfortable place
B. creating different hypotheses to explain an individual’s behavior
C. creating a story to explain unfamiliar social customs
D. being puzzled by how people in another country greet one another and then thinking about how people in your own country greet one another and why they do it the way they do

Answer 27

D. being puzzled by how people in another country greet one another and then thinking about how people in your own country greet one another and why they do it the way they do

Although C meets the definition of social imagination, it’s not an EXAMPLE.