Seeing Sociology Module 1.1 and 1.2 Vocabulary

Question 1

Individual problems that are attributed to personal shortcomings

Answer 1

Troubles

Question 2

A perspective that allows us to consider how outside forces, especially the time in history and society in which we live, shape out life story

Answer 2

Sociological Imagination

Question 3

Societal matter that affects many people and that can only be explained by larger social forces

Answer 3

Issue

Question 4

The ties attaching the individual to the group are so oppressive that there is no hope of release

Answer 4

Fatalistic

Question 5

The ties attaching the individual to others in society are weak

Answer 5

Egoistic

Question 6

All the events and day-to-day interactions from birth to death that make up a person’s life

Answer 6

Biography

Question 7

The ties attaching the individual to the group are disrupted due to dramatic changes in circumstances

Answer 7

Anomic

Question 8

The ties attaching the individual to the group are such that a persons’ sense of self cannot be separated from the group

Answer 8

Altruistic

Question 9

Anything human created that influence, pressure, or push people to interact, behave, or think in specified ways

Answer 9

Social Forces

Question 10

The scientific study of human activity in society

Answer 10

Sociology

Question 11

All the things people do with, to, and for one another and what they think and do as a result of others’ influence

Answer 11

Human activity