Week 1

Question 1

Agency

Answer 1

Agency The freedom individuals have to choose and to act.

Question 2

Anomie

Answer 2

Anomie The loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.

Question 3

Applied sociology

Answer 3

Applied sociology The use of the discipline of sociology with the specific intent of yielding practical applications for human behavior and organizations.

Question 4

Clinical Sociology

Answer 4

Clinical sociology The use of the discipline of sociology with the specific intent of altering organizations or restructuring social institutions.

Question 5

Conflict Perspective

Answer 5

Conflict perspective A sociological approach that assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of tension between groups over power or the allocation of resources, including housing, money, access to services, and political representation.

Question 6

Functionalist Perspective

Answer 6

Functionalist perspective A sociological approach that emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability.

Question 7

Globalization

Answer 7

Globalization The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.

Question 8

Interactionalist Perspective

Answer 8

Interactionist perspective A sociological approach that generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction in order to explain society as a whole.

Question 9

Macroscociology

Answer 9

Macrosociology Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations.

Question 10

Microsociology

Answer 10

Microsociology Sociological investigation that stresses the study of small groups and the analysis of our everyday experiences and interactions.

Question 11

Natural Science

Answer 11

Natural science The study of the physical features of nature and the ways in which they interact and change.

Question 12

Personal Sociology

Answer 12

Personal sociology The process of recognizing the impact our individual position has on who we are and how we think and act, and of taking responsibility for the impacts our actions have on others.

Question 13

Private Troubles

Answer 13

Private troubles Problems we face in our immediate relationships with particular individuals in our personal lives.

Question 14

Public Issues

Answer 14

Public issues Problems we face as a consequence of the positions we occupy within the larger social structure.

Question 15

Science

Answer 15

Science The body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation.

Question 16

Social Inequality

Answer 16

Social inequality A condition in which members of society have differing amounts of wealth, prestige, or power.

Question 17

Social Science

Answer 17

Social science The study of the social features of humans and the ways in which they interact and change.

Question 18

Sociological Imagination

Answer 18

Sociological imagination Our recognition of the interdependent relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our lives.

Question 19

Sociology

Answer 19

Sociology The systematic study of the relationship between the individual and society and of the consequences of difference.

Question 20

Theory

Answer 20

Theory In sociology a set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions, or behavior.