Introduction to Sociology 100- Exam 1
Questions With Correct Answers
Agency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the idea that people's lives and
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outcomes are determined by their individual choices
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Structure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the idea that people's lives and
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outcomes are determined by social forces
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recognizing these structural forces requires a sociological imagination
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Ex-social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.
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Sociological Imagination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A concept used by the
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American sociologist C. Wright Mills. Used to see how individual lives
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are shaped by a larger social force.
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Helpful for understanding politics, and allows us to understand why
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people believe what they believe.
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Ex- South Bronx: housing projects, poor, failing out of high school.
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3 miles away.
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North Bronx- Mansions, rich, private schools.
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Hard to imagine what other lives are like if we have not experienced it.
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,Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1900-1950 Herbert Spencer and
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Robert Merton- | |
The idea that various social institutions and process in society exist to
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show some important or necessary function to keep the society
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running.
Conflict Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1960-1990 Karl Marx-
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The idea that conflict between competing interests in the basics,
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animating force of social change and society in general view of social
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change- happens suddenly through the revolution view of society- the
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competition for power between groups. | | | |
Social change results from revolution and evolution.
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Double Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-W.E.B Du Bois
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Describes the 2 behavioral scripts, one for moving through the world
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and the other incorporating the external opinion of prejudiced
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onlookers, which are constantly maintained by African Americans.
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-feeling that you have more than one social identity;always looking at
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one's self through the eyes of others
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Macrosociology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a branch of sociology | | | | | | |
concerned with social dynamics and higher level of analysis (family,
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education, religion, economics, cultural society ).
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, Microsociology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--a branch of sociology that | | | | | | | |
seeks to understand local interactional context (groups or culture)
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Ex- face to face interpretive interaction
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ex. groups/culture
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Symbolic Interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Charles Horton Cooley
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and George Herbert Mead
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1. Human beings act toward ideas, concepts, and values on the basis of
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the meaning that those things have for them.
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2. These meanings are the products of social interaction in human
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society.
3. These humans are modified and filtered through an interpretive
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process that each individual uses in dealing with outward signs.
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Ex- No passing signs are different in each country but have the same
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meaning.
Correlation (association) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When 2 variable tend
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to cary together.
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Ex- self esteem and depression.
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Causation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When changing variables produce a
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corresponding change in another variable. | | | |
| 1. correlation 2. time order 3. ruling out alternative explanations
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Questions With Correct Answers
Agency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the idea that people's lives and
| | | | | | | | |
outcomes are determined by their individual choices
| | | | | |
Structure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the idea that people's lives and
| | | | | | | | |
outcomes are determined by social forces
| | | | |
recognizing these structural forces requires a sociological imagination
| | | | | | |
Ex-social class, religion, gender, ethnicity, ability, customs, etc.
| | | | | | |
Sociological Imagination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A concept used by the
| | | | | | | |
American sociologist C. Wright Mills. Used to see how individual lives
| | | | | | | | | | | |
are shaped by a larger social force.
| | | | | |
Helpful for understanding politics, and allows us to understand why
| | | | | | | | | |
people believe what they believe.
| | | |
Ex- South Bronx: housing projects, poor, failing out of high school.
| | | | | | | | | | |
3 miles away.
| | |
North Bronx- Mansions, rich, private schools.
| | | | |
Hard to imagine what other lives are like if we have not experienced it.
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
,Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1900-1950 Herbert Spencer and
| | | | | | |
Robert Merton- | |
The idea that various social institutions and process in society exist to
| | | | | | | | | | | |
show some important or necessary function to keep the society
| | | | | | | | | |
running.
Conflict Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1960-1990 Karl Marx-
| | | | | |
The idea that conflict between competing interests in the basics,
| | | | | | | | | |
animating force of social change and society in general view of social
| | | | | | | | | | | |
change- happens suddenly through the revolution view of society- the
| | | | | | | | | |
competition for power between groups. | | | |
Social change results from revolution and evolution.
| | | | | |
Double Consciousness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-W.E.B Du Bois
| | | | | |
Describes the 2 behavioral scripts, one for moving through the world
| | | | | | | | | | |
and the other incorporating the external opinion of prejudiced
| | | | | | | | |
onlookers, which are constantly maintained by African Americans.
| | | | | | |
-feeling that you have more than one social identity;always looking at
| | | | | | | | | | |
one's self through the eyes of others
| | | | | |
Macrosociology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a branch of sociology | | | | | | |
concerned with social dynamics and higher level of analysis (family,
| | | | | | | | | |
education, religion, economics, cultural society ).
| | | | |
, Microsociology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--a branch of sociology that | | | | | | | |
seeks to understand local interactional context (groups or culture)
| | | | | | | |
Ex- face to face interpretive interaction
| | | | |
ex. groups/culture
|
Symbolic Interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Charles Horton Cooley
| | | | | |
and George Herbert Mead
| | | |
1. Human beings act toward ideas, concepts, and values on the basis of
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
the meaning that those things have for them.
| | | | | | |
2. These meanings are the products of social interaction in human
| | | | | | | | | | |
society.
3. These humans are modified and filtered through an interpretive
| | | | | | | | | |
process that each individual uses in dealing with outward signs.
| | | | | | | | | |
Ex- No passing signs are different in each country but have the same
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
meaning.
Correlation (association) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When 2 variable tend
| | | | | | | |
to cary together.
| |
Ex- self esteem and depression.
| | | |
Causation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-When changing variables produce a
| | | | | | | |
corresponding change in another variable. | | | |
| 1. correlation 2. time order 3. ruling out alternative explanations
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