SOCIOLOGY FINAL STRAIGHTERLINE EXAM
SCRIPT UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ Microsociology.
Answer: the detailed study of what people say, do, and think
moment by moment as they go about their daily lives.
◉ Macrosociology.
Answer: focuses upon large-scale and long-term social processes of
organizations, institutions, and broad social patterns
◉ Auguste Comte.
Answer: The Founder of Sociology (emphasized that the study of
society must be scientific, he urged sociologists to employ
systematic observation, experimentation and comparative historical
analysis as their methods. He divided the study of society into social
statics and social dynamics.)
◉ Harriet Martineau.
Answer: Feminist and Methodologist (wrote the first book on social
research methods and was among the first to do systematic,
scientifically based, social research (Her comparative analysis of
,slavery and the position of women in the Western world paved the
way for feminist scholarship and the further pursuit of gender
equality.))
◉ Herbert Spencer.
Answer: Depicted society as a system, a whole made up of
interrelated parts (Social Darwinism founder)
◉ Social Darwinism.
Answer: Spencer's application of evolutionary notions and the
concept of 'survival of the fittest' to the social world
◉ Karl Marx.
Answer: believed that society is divided into those who own the
means of producing wealth and those who do not, giving rise to class
conflict (The Role of Class Conflict)
◉ Dialectical materialism.
Answer: Marx's theory that development depends on the clash of
contradictions and the creation of new, more advanced structures
out of these clashes
◉ É mile Durkheim. A
, nswer: He contended that the distinctive subject matter of sociology
should be the study of social facts (especially concerned with social
solidarity, distinguishing between mechanical and organic
solidarity.)(Social Integration and Social Facts)
◉ Max Weber.
Answer: said that a critical aspect of the sociological enterprise is
the study of the intentions, values, beliefs, and attitudes that
underlie people's behavior. He used the word 'Verstehen' in
describing his approach and contributed his notions of the ideal type
and a value-free sociology (Subjectivity and Social Organization)
◉ Social Laboratory.
Answer: The first department of sociology was established at the
University of Chicago in 1893, and Chicago served as a "social
laboratory" at the beginning of the century.
◉ Contemporary movements in sociology.
Answer: critical theory, feminism, and postmodern social theory
◉ Functionalist Perspective.
Answer: sees society as a system. (Functionalists identify the
structural characteristics and functions and dysfunctions of
institutions, and distinguish between manifest functions and latent
functions. Functionalists also typically assume that most members
SCRIPT UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
◉ Microsociology.
Answer: the detailed study of what people say, do, and think
moment by moment as they go about their daily lives.
◉ Macrosociology.
Answer: focuses upon large-scale and long-term social processes of
organizations, institutions, and broad social patterns
◉ Auguste Comte.
Answer: The Founder of Sociology (emphasized that the study of
society must be scientific, he urged sociologists to employ
systematic observation, experimentation and comparative historical
analysis as their methods. He divided the study of society into social
statics and social dynamics.)
◉ Harriet Martineau.
Answer: Feminist and Methodologist (wrote the first book on social
research methods and was among the first to do systematic,
scientifically based, social research (Her comparative analysis of
,slavery and the position of women in the Western world paved the
way for feminist scholarship and the further pursuit of gender
equality.))
◉ Herbert Spencer.
Answer: Depicted society as a system, a whole made up of
interrelated parts (Social Darwinism founder)
◉ Social Darwinism.
Answer: Spencer's application of evolutionary notions and the
concept of 'survival of the fittest' to the social world
◉ Karl Marx.
Answer: believed that society is divided into those who own the
means of producing wealth and those who do not, giving rise to class
conflict (The Role of Class Conflict)
◉ Dialectical materialism.
Answer: Marx's theory that development depends on the clash of
contradictions and the creation of new, more advanced structures
out of these clashes
◉ É mile Durkheim. A
, nswer: He contended that the distinctive subject matter of sociology
should be the study of social facts (especially concerned with social
solidarity, distinguishing between mechanical and organic
solidarity.)(Social Integration and Social Facts)
◉ Max Weber.
Answer: said that a critical aspect of the sociological enterprise is
the study of the intentions, values, beliefs, and attitudes that
underlie people's behavior. He used the word 'Verstehen' in
describing his approach and contributed his notions of the ideal type
and a value-free sociology (Subjectivity and Social Organization)
◉ Social Laboratory.
Answer: The first department of sociology was established at the
University of Chicago in 1893, and Chicago served as a "social
laboratory" at the beginning of the century.
◉ Contemporary movements in sociology.
Answer: critical theory, feminism, and postmodern social theory
◉ Functionalist Perspective.
Answer: sees society as a system. (Functionalists identify the
structural characteristics and functions and dysfunctions of
institutions, and distinguish between manifest functions and latent
functions. Functionalists also typically assume that most members
