SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM #1 CONCEPTS
(UMBC) QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
PASSED SOLUTIONS 100%
Industrialization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The development of industries in a country or
region on a wide scale
Urbanization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The process of making an area more urban (city-
like)
Scientific Revolution - Correct Answer ✔✔ When enough scientific anomalies accrue to
challenge the existing paradigm, showing that it is incomplete or inadequate to explain
all observed phenomena. AKA Paradigm Shift
Sociological Phenomena - Correct Answer ✔✔ All behavior which influences or is
influenced by organisms sufficiently alive to respond to one another. Not all theories fit
with all phenomena. Stuff in the social world we don't understand, but try to. Theories,
methodologies, and concepts
Auguste Comte - Correct Answer ✔✔ Positivism. The job of the sociologist is to develop
a secular morality
Theological stage - Correct Answer ✔✔ Society is the result of divine will
Metaphysical stage - Correct Answer ✔✔ Humankind's behavior is governed by natural,
biological instincts
Scientific stage - Correct Answer ✔✔ A social physics that identifies the scientific laws
that govern human behavior
Emile Durkheim - Correct Answer ✔✔ Social facts. Anomie. Social fabric keeps glue
together. Suicide rates. Functionalist. Understanding how society holds together and
how modern capitalism and industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to
one another
Karl Marx - Correct Answer ✔✔ Alienation, Aquarian environment. Nature of how the
economy runs. Historical Materialism. The conflicts between classes drove social
change throughout history
Max Weber - Correct Answer ✔✔ Verstehen (understanding). Nature of how people
conflict. 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
, W. E. B. DuBois - Correct Answer ✔✔ Normative approach to empirical approach in
socially. Approaches to problem-solving. Massive social inequality. Double
consciousness. Live in multiple worlds
Conflict Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ The idea that conflict between competing interests
is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general
Functionalist Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ The theory that various social institutions
and processes in society exist to serve some important (or necessary) function to keep
society running. Optimistic
Symbolic Interactionism - Correct Answer ✔✔ A micro-level theory in which shared
meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's
actions. Social interactions between people. Look at individuals and how they create
meaning within their interactions
Anomie - Correct Answer ✔✔ A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we
can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable. Too little social regulation.
Normlessness
Suicide - Correct Answer ✔✔ The act of intentionally causing one's own death
Sociological Imagination - Correct Answer ✔✔ The ability to connect the most basic,
intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical
forces
Positivism - Correct Answer ✔✔ A strain within sociology that believes the social world
can be described and predicted by certain describable relationships
Socialism - Correct Answer ✔✔ An economic system in which most or all of the needs
of the population are met through nonmarket methods of distribution. Not a classless
society
Sam Richard's TED Talk - Correct Answer ✔✔ A radical experiment in empathy.
Sociology is the study of the way we see things we don't actually see. Have empathy.
Leave your shoes and stand in someone else's. Step somewhere where you are not
supposed to step at all. Step outside and understand the phenomena to solve the
problem
Independent Variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ A measured factor that the researcher
believes has a causal impact on the Dependent Variables; Causes
Dependent Variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ The outcome that the researcher is trying to
explain; Effects
(UMBC) QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
PASSED SOLUTIONS 100%
Industrialization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The development of industries in a country or
region on a wide scale
Urbanization - Correct Answer ✔✔ The process of making an area more urban (city-
like)
Scientific Revolution - Correct Answer ✔✔ When enough scientific anomalies accrue to
challenge the existing paradigm, showing that it is incomplete or inadequate to explain
all observed phenomena. AKA Paradigm Shift
Sociological Phenomena - Correct Answer ✔✔ All behavior which influences or is
influenced by organisms sufficiently alive to respond to one another. Not all theories fit
with all phenomena. Stuff in the social world we don't understand, but try to. Theories,
methodologies, and concepts
Auguste Comte - Correct Answer ✔✔ Positivism. The job of the sociologist is to develop
a secular morality
Theological stage - Correct Answer ✔✔ Society is the result of divine will
Metaphysical stage - Correct Answer ✔✔ Humankind's behavior is governed by natural,
biological instincts
Scientific stage - Correct Answer ✔✔ A social physics that identifies the scientific laws
that govern human behavior
Emile Durkheim - Correct Answer ✔✔ Social facts. Anomie. Social fabric keeps glue
together. Suicide rates. Functionalist. Understanding how society holds together and
how modern capitalism and industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to
one another
Karl Marx - Correct Answer ✔✔ Alienation, Aquarian environment. Nature of how the
economy runs. Historical Materialism. The conflicts between classes drove social
change throughout history
Max Weber - Correct Answer ✔✔ Verstehen (understanding). Nature of how people
conflict. 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
, W. E. B. DuBois - Correct Answer ✔✔ Normative approach to empirical approach in
socially. Approaches to problem-solving. Massive social inequality. Double
consciousness. Live in multiple worlds
Conflict Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ The idea that conflict between competing interests
is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general
Functionalist Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ The theory that various social institutions
and processes in society exist to serve some important (or necessary) function to keep
society running. Optimistic
Symbolic Interactionism - Correct Answer ✔✔ A micro-level theory in which shared
meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's
actions. Social interactions between people. Look at individuals and how they create
meaning within their interactions
Anomie - Correct Answer ✔✔ A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we
can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable. Too little social regulation.
Normlessness
Suicide - Correct Answer ✔✔ The act of intentionally causing one's own death
Sociological Imagination - Correct Answer ✔✔ The ability to connect the most basic,
intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical
forces
Positivism - Correct Answer ✔✔ A strain within sociology that believes the social world
can be described and predicted by certain describable relationships
Socialism - Correct Answer ✔✔ An economic system in which most or all of the needs
of the population are met through nonmarket methods of distribution. Not a classless
society
Sam Richard's TED Talk - Correct Answer ✔✔ A radical experiment in empathy.
Sociology is the study of the way we see things we don't actually see. Have empathy.
Leave your shoes and stand in someone else's. Step somewhere where you are not
supposed to step at all. Step outside and understand the phenomena to solve the
problem
Independent Variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ A measured factor that the researcher
believes has a causal impact on the Dependent Variables; Causes
Dependent Variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ The outcome that the researcher is trying to
explain; Effects
