MCQs Flashcards
Anthropology primarily studies which of the following?
Physical, biological, and cultural development of humans
Sociology focuses on external factors. What is the focus of psychology?
.
The urges, instincts, and mind of the individual
Sociology is _____.
a social science
Sociologists are social scientists.
True
The sociological imagination is a theoretical framework rooted in conflict theory that examines how the interconnections between race, power, and the law can explain social and cultural phenomena, events, and situations.
False
Sociology encourages us to look at how people and events demonstrate regular and recurrent patterns.
True
Macrosociology is concerned with issues such as war, unemployment, and divorce.
true
Sociologists believe that it is NOT necessary to study a variety of societies to understand various points of view.
false
Chris was trying to explain how sociology was different from psychology to her grandmother. What pieces of information would NOT be included in the explanation of sociology?
It focuses on human mental processes and human individual behavior.
Marx believed that the proletariat were oppressed and needed to develop class consciousness.
true
Feminist sociologists believe that gender is basic only to the concepts of socialization and the economy.
false
Talcott Parson was the founder of _____.
d.
the general theory of action
Durkheim felt that low levels of social integration could lead to higher levels of _____.
suicide
_____ believed that social conflict was at the core of every society.
Marx
Contemporary conflict theorists believe that conflict is caused by economic inequality.
false
_____ argued that determining social class was a subjective process involving how we perceive power, wealth, and prestige.
weber
Spencer felt that individuals who did NOT fit in still deserved to survive and flourish, even though non-adaptive societies would die out.
false
The scientific standard of replication says that research should be done in such a way that it can’t be duplicated by others.
false
A dependent variable is never influenced by another variable.
false
An inverse relationship exists when an increase in one variable is accompanied by a decrease in another.
Question 3
true
What does methodology mean?
The rules and guidelines followed in research
For sociological researchers, a population is _____, while a sample is _____.
.
the group of people the researcher wants to study; a portion of that population
ttempting to find out as much information as possible about a topic under research is called conducting _____.
literature review
Research done in a way that can be duplicated by others is called _____.
replication
What does evaluative research do?
Measures how well a program or project works in relation to its goals
theory is a set of variables the researcher will use in their research
Question 10
false
Political science studies
governmental power
Dr tischner is interested in voting patterns and understanding congress. she wants to be a
political scientist
tribal societies often explained mysterious occurrences by saying god or deity. comte would say thet were in the _ stage.
theological
Comte’s law of human progress suggest that all human intellectual development passes successively through which three different stages?
theological, metaphysical, and scientific
1) Human behaviour is driven by subjective meaning that is developed through social interaction
c) symbolic interactionism
social institutions meet essential social needs and evolve in response to pressures such as pop. growth
conflict theory
the decline in the consumption of paper products was the result of younger americans seeing the environment as a more important issue than their parents.
functionalism
groups such as the westboro baptist church people for the ethical treatment of animals engage in publicity stunts bcs they value the exposure more than the negativity
exchange theory
macro sociological issues
War, unemployment, and divorce
micro sociological issues
interactions between new parents and parents who have not had children yet. Studying interactions between male and female partners in romantic relationships
Spencer theorized that if societies could NOT adapt, they would die out, and individuals who could not fit in also did NOT deserve to survive and flourish.
true
Spencer viewed society as progressing through an orderly evolution, and he thought that planned social change would help this progress.
false- Spencer argued that planned change would disrupt the orderly evolution of society.
Conflict theorists regard society as being in a constant state of _ and , while structural functional theorists regard society as potentially being in a state of
competition,change
equilibrium.
Evolutionary theory suggests that societies are like _
biological organisms.
