Sophia Intro to Sociology Milestone 1

Sophia Intro to Sociology Milestone 1 Which of the following theoretical approaches analyzes how racial conflicts affect society? Gender conflict theory Race conflict theory Social conflict theory Symbolic interaction theory CONCEPT Race Conflict Theory __________ research emphasizes the need for the researcher to be as objective as possible. Gynocentric Value-free research Verstehen Value-relevant research CONCEPT Conducting Sociological Research Jackie uses graphs and charts to present data on obesity in the United States. She creates a chart showing the increasing number of children who are obese, as well as the mean, median, and mode weights. The type of data Jackie presents on the chart is called __________ statistics. spurious qualitative descriptive inferential CONCEPT Statistics Which of the following statements best describes symbolic interaction theory? The meanings of situations, of people, and of society, are created through social interaction. Symbolic meanings are shared when we talk to each other. Patterns of interaction, when repeated, develop into social institutions. All of the answer choices are correct. CONCEPT Symbolic Interaction Theory Research that is focused on quantitative data is often referred to as __________ sociology. theoretical positivist philosophical metaphysical CONCEPT Auguste Comte and Positivism Which of the following sociologists argued that sociological research should examine the subjective or interpretive meaning of human behavior? Max Weber Karl Marx Robert Merton Emile Durkheim CONCEPT Qualitative Research Shopping and consumer spending are an important part of the U.S. economy. A sociologist who takes the functional approach would note that shopping and consumer spending serve important functions in American society. When considering shopping malls, the functional approach would indicate that a manifest function of malls is to enable purchases of necessary goods (e.g., clothing and household items). Which of the following is an example of a social dysfunction of shopping malls? Purchasing clothing and household items Serving as a place for teens to get together Purchasing entertainment The development of "shopaholics" — people who go into debt due to over-spending. CONCEPT Structural Functionalism: Manifest and Latent Functions A __________ orientation is adopted to study large-scale social patterns. value-free micro-level macro-level value-relevant