INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY EXAM SOLVED #12
Sociology - correct answer - systematic study of people in groups.
- designed to dispell myths through scientific research
Sociological Imagination - correct answer - theory founded by C. Wright Mills
- can see the relationship between personal experiences and the overall society.
Industrial Revolution - correct answer - brought people from farms to cities and caused
Urbanization
Urbanization - correct answer - as this happened, people came in contact with others
more, resulting in conflicts both local and global
Auguste Comte - correct answer - known as the founding father of sociology
- introduced the theories of dynamics and statics
Dynamics - correct answer - something in society that always caused conflicts
Statics - correct answer - something in society that caused social order and stability
Harriet Martineau - correct answer - interpreted Comte's writing so the common man
could understand it
- came to America to do a study of women and slaves
- One of the first European woman sociologists
Emile Dirkheim - correct answer - created the theory of social facts
- decided that the more socially integrated you are the less likely you are to commit
suicide
+ topic of their book titled: "Suicide"
- created theory of anomie
Social Facts - correct answer - patterned ways of acting, thinking, and feeling
- People are "creatures of habit"
Anomie - correct answer - when there are no rules or regulations in society, social
control becomes in effective
Karl Marx - correct answer - proposed the conflict theory: in order for a society to
progress, those being mistreated (lower class) should rise up and overthrow the upper
class
Max Weber - correct answer - proposed the theory of Verstehen
Verstehen - correct answer -getting into the mind of the individual and studying why
they do what they do
Sociology - correct answer - systematic study of people in groups.
- designed to dispell myths through scientific research
Sociological Imagination - correct answer - theory founded by C. Wright Mills
- can see the relationship between personal experiences and the overall society.
Industrial Revolution - correct answer - brought people from farms to cities and caused
Urbanization
Urbanization - correct answer - as this happened, people came in contact with others
more, resulting in conflicts both local and global
Auguste Comte - correct answer - known as the founding father of sociology
- introduced the theories of dynamics and statics
Dynamics - correct answer - something in society that always caused conflicts
Statics - correct answer - something in society that caused social order and stability
Harriet Martineau - correct answer - interpreted Comte's writing so the common man
could understand it
- came to America to do a study of women and slaves
- One of the first European woman sociologists
Emile Dirkheim - correct answer - created the theory of social facts
- decided that the more socially integrated you are the less likely you are to commit
suicide
+ topic of their book titled: "Suicide"
- created theory of anomie
Social Facts - correct answer - patterned ways of acting, thinking, and feeling
- People are "creatures of habit"
Anomie - correct answer - when there are no rules or regulations in society, social
control becomes in effective
Karl Marx - correct answer - proposed the conflict theory: in order for a society to
progress, those being mistreated (lower class) should rise up and overthrow the upper
class
Max Weber - correct answer - proposed the theory of Verstehen
Verstehen - correct answer -getting into the mind of the individual and studying why
they do what they do
