Exam 1

Question 1

Sociology

Answer 1

the scientific study of social behavior and human interaction within and between individuals and groups

Question 2

Sociological Imagination

Answer 2

the consciousness of an individual with his or her larger society

• awareness
• experience
• placed within historical context

Question 3

Theory

Answer 3

statements that seek to explain problems, actions or behaviors

Question 4

Social construction

Answer 4

an idea that people agree exists

Question 5

Macro-level theory

Answer 5

focuses on structure, large social institutions (educational systems)

Question 6

Micro-level theory

Answer 6

looking at the way individuals interact with one another

Question 7

Marxist/ Conflict theory

Answer 7

most sociology lives here, perspective of political and economic power and oppression

Question 8

Functionalist Theory

Answer 8

the different parts of society are primarily composed of social institutions, each of which is designed to fill different needs, and each of which has particular consequences for the form and shape of society

Question 9

Symbolic interactionist theory

Answer 9

emphasizes the role of symboled and language as core elements of all human interaction

Question 10

Feminist theory

Answer 10

explaining the ways women are oppressed through systems of capitalism

Question 11

Double Consciousness

Answer 11

forced imagination that they must live in a country that is so not their own

Question 12

Auguste Comte

Answer 12

invented sociology, knowledge of

Question 13

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 13

double consciousness, structural, founder of NAACP, advocating for something to be done

Question 14

Harriette Martineau

Answer 14

multiple aspects of sociology, structural

Question 15

Karl Marx

Answer 15

economics (capitalism), industrial revolution, ate on the way to a communist society, unfairness, inherently exploitation, glass half empty kind of guy

Question 16

Emile Durkheim

Answer 16

ANOMIE, division of labor (who does what
0, specialization, social change, famously studies suicide (if we become too specialized form everyone we won’t feel good about ourselves)

Question 17

Qualitative Research

Answer 17

doesn’t look at numbers, but investigates why; used in smaller samples

Question 18

Quantitative Research

Answer 18

data in number form; statistical analysis; used for large samples w/o depth

Question 19

Objectivity

Answer 19

treat everyone the same the same without bias

Question 20

Inference

Answer 20

conclusion reached based on evidence and reasoning

Question 21

Reflexivity

Answer 21

reflect on how, who, what am I doing/achieving

Question 22

Who created symbolic interactionism?

Answer 22

George Herbert Mead

Question 23

Who created sociological imagination ?

Answer 23

C. Wright Mills

Question 24

who follows functionalist theory?

Answer 24

Durkheim