SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2027
UPDATE 100% CORRECT
Question 1.
the study of human society
Correct Answer: sociology
Question 2.
the ability to connect of an individuals mote historical forces->
Correct Answer: the most basic, intimate aspects sociological imagination life to
seemingly impersonel and reC. Wright Mills
Question 3.
a complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and
reproduce themselves over time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a
society that works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within them
Correct Answer: social institution
Question 4.
invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism" - we could determine right and
wrong without reference to higher powers or other religious concepts
Correct Answer: Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Question 5.
arose out of a need order in a time of
Correct Answer: to make moral sense of the social positivism declining religious
authority
Question 6.
Believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social change
throughout history. He saw history as an account of a mans struggle to gain control of and
later dominate his natural environment -all systems have their own fault lines of conflict.
Correct Answer: Karl Marx
,Question 7.
Max Weber illustrated how social institutions are dependent on each other. In his major
work, he showed that when a change occurred in the religious institution during the
sixteenth century, it contributed to a change in the economic institution. Previously, most
people thought of religion and economics being autonomous and completely separated
from each other.
Correct Answer: Max Weber
Question 8.
German for "understanding".. The concept comes from Max Weber and is the basis of
interpretive sociology in which researchers imagine themselves experiencing the life
positions of the social actors they want to understand rather than treat-ing those people as
subjects to be examined
Correct Answer: Verstehen
Question 9.
He wished to understand and how modern transformed the
Correct Answer: how society holds together Durkheim capitalism and
industrialism have ways people relate to one another.
Question 10.
Durkheim wrote this. refers to the degree to which jobs are specialized.
Correct Answer: "the division of labor"
Question 11.
a sense of aimlessness can no longer reasonably too little social regulation; - Durkheim
argues leading to suicide sulting from drastic arrangements.
Correct Answer: or despair that arises when we Anomie expect life to be
predictable; normlessness. that one of the main social forces is the sense of
normlessness rechanges in living conditions or
Question 12.
a strain within sociology can be described relationships (akin -----durkheim was
practitioner
Correct Answer: that believes the social world Positivist sociology and predicted
by certain describable to social physics) is often considered the founding
, Question 13.
he established what ology - sociology ~his work was influential sociology and cultural ~his
work with small-group intellectual precedent ot study microinteractions. ~he provided
formal groups, a party, a
Correct Answer: we today refer to as formal soci- Georg Simmel of pure
numbers. in the development of urban sociology. interactions served as an for
later sociologists who came definitions for small and large stranger, and the
poor.
Question 14.
The emergence of ized by the latter, embodied by what go school. ~Humans' behaviors by
their social and known as social ecology.
Correct Answer: American sociology was character- Origins of American
Sociapplied perspective, and was best ology (chicago) came to be reffered to as
the chica- and personalities are shaped physical environments, a concept
Question 15.
Taught at the university the concept of "The ~he argued that self cial process
Correct Answer: of Michigan, is best known for Cooley Looking Glass- Self"
emerges from an interactive so-
Question 16.
We envision how others perceive us; then we gauge the responses of other individuals to
our presentation of self. By refining our vision of how others see us, we develop
self-concept that is in constant interaction with the surrounding social world.
Correct Answer: The looking glass self
Question 17.
a supposition or a something, especially independent of the
Correct Answer: system of ideas intended to explain Theory one based on
general principles thing to be explained.
Question 18.
a formulated hypothesis pothesis or opinion
Correct Answer: Theoretical approach or, loosely speaking, any hynot based
upon actual knowledge
UPDATE 100% CORRECT
Question 1.
the study of human society
Correct Answer: sociology
Question 2.
the ability to connect of an individuals mote historical forces->
Correct Answer: the most basic, intimate aspects sociological imagination life to
seemingly impersonel and reC. Wright Mills
Question 3.
a complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and
reproduce themselves over time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a
society that works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within them
Correct Answer: social institution
Question 4.
invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism" - we could determine right and
wrong without reference to higher powers or other religious concepts
Correct Answer: Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Question 5.
arose out of a need order in a time of
Correct Answer: to make moral sense of the social positivism declining religious
authority
Question 6.
Believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social change
throughout history. He saw history as an account of a mans struggle to gain control of and
later dominate his natural environment -all systems have their own fault lines of conflict.
Correct Answer: Karl Marx
,Question 7.
Max Weber illustrated how social institutions are dependent on each other. In his major
work, he showed that when a change occurred in the religious institution during the
sixteenth century, it contributed to a change in the economic institution. Previously, most
people thought of religion and economics being autonomous and completely separated
from each other.
Correct Answer: Max Weber
Question 8.
German for "understanding".. The concept comes from Max Weber and is the basis of
interpretive sociology in which researchers imagine themselves experiencing the life
positions of the social actors they want to understand rather than treat-ing those people as
subjects to be examined
Correct Answer: Verstehen
Question 9.
He wished to understand and how modern transformed the
Correct Answer: how society holds together Durkheim capitalism and
industrialism have ways people relate to one another.
Question 10.
Durkheim wrote this. refers to the degree to which jobs are specialized.
Correct Answer: "the division of labor"
Question 11.
a sense of aimlessness can no longer reasonably too little social regulation; - Durkheim
argues leading to suicide sulting from drastic arrangements.
Correct Answer: or despair that arises when we Anomie expect life to be
predictable; normlessness. that one of the main social forces is the sense of
normlessness rechanges in living conditions or
Question 12.
a strain within sociology can be described relationships (akin -----durkheim was
practitioner
Correct Answer: that believes the social world Positivist sociology and predicted
by certain describable to social physics) is often considered the founding
, Question 13.
he established what ology - sociology ~his work was influential sociology and cultural ~his
work with small-group intellectual precedent ot study microinteractions. ~he provided
formal groups, a party, a
Correct Answer: we today refer to as formal soci- Georg Simmel of pure
numbers. in the development of urban sociology. interactions served as an for
later sociologists who came definitions for small and large stranger, and the
poor.
Question 14.
The emergence of ized by the latter, embodied by what go school. ~Humans' behaviors by
their social and known as social ecology.
Correct Answer: American sociology was character- Origins of American
Sociapplied perspective, and was best ology (chicago) came to be reffered to as
the chica- and personalities are shaped physical environments, a concept
Question 15.
Taught at the university the concept of "The ~he argued that self cial process
Correct Answer: of Michigan, is best known for Cooley Looking Glass- Self"
emerges from an interactive so-
Question 16.
We envision how others perceive us; then we gauge the responses of other individuals to
our presentation of self. By refining our vision of how others see us, we develop
self-concept that is in constant interaction with the surrounding social world.
Correct Answer: The looking glass self
Question 17.
a supposition or a something, especially independent of the
Correct Answer: system of ideas intended to explain Theory one based on
general principles thing to be explained.
Question 18.
a formulated hypothesis pothesis or opinion
Correct Answer: Theoretical approach or, loosely speaking, any hynot based
upon actual knowledge
