SYG 2000 FINAL EXAM SCRIPT TESTED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LEARNING MATERIAL
●● Sociological Imagination person
Answer: C. Wright Mills
●● German for "understanding"
Answer: Verstehen
●● Verstehen person
Answer: Max Weber
●● forms the object of inquiry for interpretive
sociology—to study how social actors understand their actions and the
social world through experience
Answer: Verstehen
●● A concept which describes the two behavioral scripts which are
constantly maintained by African Americans
Answer: Double Consciousness
,●● Double Consciousness person
Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois
●● Two behavioral scripts constantly maintained by African Americans
are:
Answer: moving thru the world
incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers
●● Conflict Theory person
Answer: Karl Marx
●● The idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic
animating force of social change and society in general throughout
history
Answer: Conflict Theory
●● Who said history is an account of man's struggle to gain control?
Answer: Karl Marx
●● shares ideas with Marxist theory - Marxist emphasis on conflict and
political reform
Answer: Feminist theory
,●● an emphasis on women's experiences and a belief that sociology and
society in general subordinate women
Answer: Feminist theory
●● emphasize equality between men and women and want to see
women's lives and experiences represented in sociological studies
Answer: Feminist theory
●● Concerned with how power relationships are defined, shaped, and
reproduced on the basis of gender differences
Answer: Feminist theory
●● a micro-level theory in which, shared meanings, orientations, and
assumptions from the basic motivations behind people's actions.
Answer: Symbolic Interaction Theory
●● This paradigm operates on the basic premise of a cycle of meaning--
namely the idea that people act in response to the meaning that signs and
social signals hold for them
Answer: Symbolic Interaction Theory
●● A condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progress
and history, the replacement of narrative within pastiche, and multiple,
perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed affiliations.
, Answer: Post-modernism Theory
●● Shared meanings have eroded, no longer one version of history that
is correct as everything is interpretable.
Answer: Post-modernism Theory
●● A theory that attempts to predict how certain social institutions tend
to function; generates falsifiable hypotheses - predictions that can be
tested by analyzing the real world
Answer: Midrange Theory
●● seek to obtain information about the social world that is in, or can be
converted to numeric form
Answer: Quantitative Approach
●● attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be
readily converted to numeric form
Answer: Qualitative Approach
●● What do qualitative and quantitative approaches do?
Answer: provide ways to establish causal relationships between social
elements
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
LEARNING MATERIAL
●● Sociological Imagination person
Answer: C. Wright Mills
●● German for "understanding"
Answer: Verstehen
●● Verstehen person
Answer: Max Weber
●● forms the object of inquiry for interpretive
sociology—to study how social actors understand their actions and the
social world through experience
Answer: Verstehen
●● A concept which describes the two behavioral scripts which are
constantly maintained by African Americans
Answer: Double Consciousness
,●● Double Consciousness person
Answer: W.E.B. Du Bois
●● Two behavioral scripts constantly maintained by African Americans
are:
Answer: moving thru the world
incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers
●● Conflict Theory person
Answer: Karl Marx
●● The idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic
animating force of social change and society in general throughout
history
Answer: Conflict Theory
●● Who said history is an account of man's struggle to gain control?
Answer: Karl Marx
●● shares ideas with Marxist theory - Marxist emphasis on conflict and
political reform
Answer: Feminist theory
,●● an emphasis on women's experiences and a belief that sociology and
society in general subordinate women
Answer: Feminist theory
●● emphasize equality between men and women and want to see
women's lives and experiences represented in sociological studies
Answer: Feminist theory
●● Concerned with how power relationships are defined, shaped, and
reproduced on the basis of gender differences
Answer: Feminist theory
●● a micro-level theory in which, shared meanings, orientations, and
assumptions from the basic motivations behind people's actions.
Answer: Symbolic Interaction Theory
●● This paradigm operates on the basic premise of a cycle of meaning--
namely the idea that people act in response to the meaning that signs and
social signals hold for them
Answer: Symbolic Interaction Theory
●● A condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progress
and history, the replacement of narrative within pastiche, and multiple,
perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed affiliations.
, Answer: Post-modernism Theory
●● Shared meanings have eroded, no longer one version of history that
is correct as everything is interpretable.
Answer: Post-modernism Theory
●● A theory that attempts to predict how certain social institutions tend
to function; generates falsifiable hypotheses - predictions that can be
tested by analyzing the real world
Answer: Midrange Theory
●● seek to obtain information about the social world that is in, or can be
converted to numeric form
Answer: Quantitative Approach
●● attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be
readily converted to numeric form
Answer: Qualitative Approach
●● What do qualitative and quantitative approaches do?
Answer: provide ways to establish causal relationships between social
elements
