Exam #1 Study Guide

Question 1

Theoretical orientation that compares society to the human body.

Answer 1

H. Spencer

Question 2

Paradigm that is micro in nature and its focus is on a person’s internal thoughts, emotions, and understandings.

Answer 2

Symbolic Interaction Approach

Question 3

Wrote a book titled “Society in America.”

Answer 3

Harriet Martinel

Question 4

Identified common traits of total institutions

Answer 4

Erving Goffman

Question 5

Looking glass self.

Answer 5

C.H. Cooley

Question 6

Situations that are defined as real in their consequences.

Answer 6

W.I Thomas

Question 7

Founder of Hull House and pioneer in the field of social work

Answer 7

Jane Adams

Question 8

Founder of the science of Sociology

Answer 8

August Comte

Question 9

Applied the principles of this view to raise the standards for people of color.

Answer 9

D.W.B. Dubois

Question 10

Area of inquiry that investigates ways in which human biology affects how culture is created.

Answer 10

Sociobiology

Question 11

Emphasizes changes that result in an imbalance of the system and the stresses or pressures to restore balance to the system.

Answer 11

Functional

Question 12

Coined the term ethnocentrism.

Answer 12

William Graham