INTRODUCTION SOCIOLOGY CORE MAIN
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔ manifest; latent - ✔✔Political science teacher Mr. Jones asks his students to study
how social media can influence public opinion by "following" famous activists,
academics, and politicians on Twitter. While reading and exchanging each other's
Tweets, some classmates became close friends. The first is an example of the project's
____ function, the second is an example of the project's _____ function.
✔✔Please define C. Wright Mill's sociological imagination? - ✔✔How individuals
understand their own and others' pasts in relation to history and social structure.
✔✔Sociology is defined as the: - ✔✔Systematic study of society and social interaction.
✔✔Alona is examining the impact of the 2011 Penn State scandal on student morale
and school spirit by distributing number-scaled surveys in her Introduction to Sociology
class. Alona is employing a _____ research method. - ✔✔Quantitative
✔✔The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society
that shapes that behavior (or, the concept that the individual and society are
inseparable) is referred to as: - ✔✔Figuration
✔✔What approach is often used to understand what's defined as deviant within a
society? - ✔✔Constructivism
✔✔A paradigm can be defined as: - ✔✔Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used
within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed
in support of them.
✔✔Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Karl Marx were all advocates of: - ✔✔Conflict
theory
, ✔✔After weeks of protest in Zuccotti Park, NYC's "Occupy Wall Street" divided into two
camps: one composed of higher income protestors, and one composed of lower-income
protesters. A ______ would be most interested in the relationship and nature of day-to-
day exchanges between the two groups. - ✔✔Symbolic interactionist
✔✔_____ view society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the
biological and social needs of individuals who make up that society. - ✔✔Structural
Functionalists
✔✔Sociology - ✔✔the study of groups and group interactions, societies and social
interactions, from small and personal groups to very large groups.
✔✔Society - ✔✔is a group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact
with one another, and who share a common culture is what sociologists
✔✔micro-level - ✔✔study small groups and individual interactions
✔✔macro-level - ✔✔look at trends among and between large groups and societies.
✔✔culture - ✔✔refers to the group's shared practices, values, and beliefs
✔✔sociological imagination - ✔✔a way of seeing our own and other people's behavior
in relationship to history and social structure
✔✔Reification - ✔✔an error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real,
material existence
✔✔social facts - ✔✔which are the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs,
fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life, that may contribute
to these changes in the family
✔✔figuration. - ✔✔process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and
the society that shapes that behavior
✔✔best describes sociology as a subject - ✔✔The study of society and social
interaction
✔✔C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological
__________ to study how society affects individuals. - ✔✔imagination
✔✔A sociologist defines society as a group of people who reside in a defined area,
share a culture, and who: - ✔✔interact
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔ manifest; latent - ✔✔Political science teacher Mr. Jones asks his students to study
how social media can influence public opinion by "following" famous activists,
academics, and politicians on Twitter. While reading and exchanging each other's
Tweets, some classmates became close friends. The first is an example of the project's
____ function, the second is an example of the project's _____ function.
✔✔Please define C. Wright Mill's sociological imagination? - ✔✔How individuals
understand their own and others' pasts in relation to history and social structure.
✔✔Sociology is defined as the: - ✔✔Systematic study of society and social interaction.
✔✔Alona is examining the impact of the 2011 Penn State scandal on student morale
and school spirit by distributing number-scaled surveys in her Introduction to Sociology
class. Alona is employing a _____ research method. - ✔✔Quantitative
✔✔The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society
that shapes that behavior (or, the concept that the individual and society are
inseparable) is referred to as: - ✔✔Figuration
✔✔What approach is often used to understand what's defined as deviant within a
society? - ✔✔Constructivism
✔✔A paradigm can be defined as: - ✔✔Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used
within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed
in support of them.
✔✔Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Karl Marx were all advocates of: - ✔✔Conflict
theory
, ✔✔After weeks of protest in Zuccotti Park, NYC's "Occupy Wall Street" divided into two
camps: one composed of higher income protestors, and one composed of lower-income
protesters. A ______ would be most interested in the relationship and nature of day-to-
day exchanges between the two groups. - ✔✔Symbolic interactionist
✔✔_____ view society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the
biological and social needs of individuals who make up that society. - ✔✔Structural
Functionalists
✔✔Sociology - ✔✔the study of groups and group interactions, societies and social
interactions, from small and personal groups to very large groups.
✔✔Society - ✔✔is a group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact
with one another, and who share a common culture is what sociologists
✔✔micro-level - ✔✔study small groups and individual interactions
✔✔macro-level - ✔✔look at trends among and between large groups and societies.
✔✔culture - ✔✔refers to the group's shared practices, values, and beliefs
✔✔sociological imagination - ✔✔a way of seeing our own and other people's behavior
in relationship to history and social structure
✔✔Reification - ✔✔an error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real,
material existence
✔✔social facts - ✔✔which are the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs,
fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life, that may contribute
to these changes in the family
✔✔figuration. - ✔✔process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and
the society that shapes that behavior
✔✔best describes sociology as a subject - ✔✔The study of society and social
interaction
✔✔C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological
__________ to study how society affects individuals. - ✔✔imagination
✔✔A sociologist defines society as a group of people who reside in a defined area,
share a culture, and who: - ✔✔interact
