Quiz 1

Question 1

________ make the familiar strange

Answer 1

Sociologists

Question 2

_______ is the study of human society

Answer 2

Sociology

Question 3

Mills coined the term “__________”

Answer 3

Sociological imagination

Question 4

Family, banks, and military are examples of ________

Answer 4

social institutions

Question 5

___________ is the way individuals define themselves in relationship to groups they are a part of

Answer 5

Social idenity

Question 6

_______ said “society is better understood by determining the logic or scientific laws governing human behavior, called _____ or ______

Answer 6

Comte

Social physics, positivism

Question 7

________ was the first person to translate Comte’s written works to English and was considered to be one of the earliest feminist social scientists

Answer 7

Martineau

Question 8

______ is well known for the theory of historical materialism, which identifies class conflict as the primary cause of social change

Answer 8

Marx

Question 9

______ placed emphasis on subjectivity and became the foundation of ______ sociology

Answer 9

Weber, interpretive

Question 10

______ was the founder of positivist sociology; developed a theory that division of labor helps to determine how social cohesion is maintained, or not maintained, in that society

Answer 10

Durkheim

Question 11

______ is known for formal sociology, or a sociology of pure numbers (for instance, how a group of two is different than a group of three)

Answer 11

Simmel

Question 12

________, ________, and ________ are modern sociological theories

Answer 12

Functionalism, conflict theory, and feminist theory

Question 13

________ looks at how individuals interact with one another as well as at how groups, small and large, interact with one another

Answer 13

Sociology

Question 14

_______ is one example of how political science focuses on one aspect of social relations

Answer 14

Power

Question 15

__________ understands local interactional contexts, focusing on face-to-face encounters and gathering data through participant observations and in-depth interviews.

Answer 15

Microsociology

Question 16

__________ looks at social dynamics across whole societies or large parts of them and often relies on statistical analysis to do so.

Answer 16

Macrosociology

Question 17

_____________ is a micro-level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people’s actions

Answer 17

Symbolic interactionism

Question 18

__________ and ________ examine things on a more micro level than sociology does, and economics is an entirely ________ discipline.

Answer 18

Psychology, biology

quantitative

Question 19

The Chicago School focused on __________, with the belief that _________

Answer 19

empirical research

people’s behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical environments

Question 20

We should use our _________ to question our habits or customs that seem “natural” to us.

Answer 20

sociological imagination

Question 21

_____________ is the idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general.

Answer 21

Conflict theory

Question 22

Midrange theory attempts to predict how certain _________ tend to function

Answer 22

social institutions

Question 23

_________ theory is the theory that various social institutions and processes in society exist to serve some important (or necessary) function to keep society running.

Answer 23

Functionalism

Question 24

__________ describes the two behavioral scripts, one for moving through the world, and the other incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers, which are constantly maintained by African Americans.

Answer 24

Double consciousness

Question 25

Double consciousness describes the two behavioral scripts, one for ___________, and the other _______________, which are constantly maintained by African Americans.

Answer 25

for moving through the world

incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers

Question 26

________ is the basis of interpretive sociology in which researchers imagine themselves experiencing the life positions of the social actors they want to understand rather than treating those people as objects to be examined.

Answer 26

Verstehen

Question 27

________ is when researchers imagine themselves experiencing the life positions of the social actors they want to understand rather than treating those people as objects to be examined.

Answer 27

interpretive sociology