SYG 2000 Midterm
statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants -
✔️✔️Quantitative sociology
in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources of its data -
✔️✔️Qualitative sociology
a proposed explanation about social interactions or society - ✔️✔️Theory
a testable proposition - ✔️✔️Hypothesis
the social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location and
religion - ✔️✔️Social solidarity
the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the
cultural rules that govern social life - ✔️✔️Social fact
Seeing patterns means that a sociologist needs to be able to: - ✔️✔️Identify similarities
in how social groups respond to social pressure
Which of the following was a topic of study in early sociology?
a) Astrology
b) Economics
c) Physics
d) History - ✔️✔️Economics
Which founder of sociology believed societies changed due to class struggle?
a) Emile Comte
b) Karl Marx
c) Plato
d) Herbert Spencer - ✔️✔️Karl Marx
The difference between positivism and antipositivism relates to: - ✔️✔️Whether
sociological studies can predict or improve society
What would a quantitative sociologist use to gather data? - ✔️✔️A large survey
Weber believed humans could not be studied purely objectively because they were
influenced by: - ✔️✔️Their culture
,Which of these theories is most likely to look at the social world on a micro level?
a) structural functionalism
b) conflict theory
c) positivism
d) symbolic interactionism - ✔️✔️Symbolic Interactionism
Who believed that the history of society was one of class struggle? - ✔️✔️Karl Marx
Who coined the phrase symbolic interactionism? - ✔️✔️Herbert Blumer
A symbolic interactionism may compare social interactions to: - ✔️✔️Theatrical Roles
Which research technique would most likely be used by a symbolic interactionist? -
✔️✔️Participant Observation
Kenneth and Mamie Clark used sociological research to show that segregation was: -
✔️✔️Harmful
Studying sociology helps people analyze data because they learn: - ✔️✔️Interview
techniques, to apply statistics, and to generate theories
Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject?
a) the study of individual behavior
b) the study of cultures
c) the study of society and social interaction
d) the study of economics - ✔️✔️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
Berger describes sociologists as concerned with: - ✔️✔️Common everyday life events
The systematic study of society and social interaction - ✔️✔️Sociology
a group of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another
and who share a common culture - ✔️✔️Society
study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups - ✔️✔️Micro-level
, a wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society - ✔️✔️Macro-level
a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs - ✔️✔️Culture
enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within
society, that is its task and its promise - ✔️✔️Sociological imagination
the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, and all of the cultural rules
that govern social life - ✔️✔️Social Facts
the scientific study of social patterns - ✔️✔️Positivism
specific individuals that impact a person's life - ✔️✔️Significant other
the organized and generalized attitude of a social group - ✔️✔️Generalized other
a German word that means to understand in a deep way - ✔️✔️Verstehen
the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to
represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values - ✔️✔️Antipositivism
an error of trading an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existence -
✔️✔️Reification
the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that
shapes that - ✔️✔️Behavior Figuration
Who was the world's first sociologist? - ✔️✔️Ibn Khaldun
Difference between troubles and issues - ✔️✔️Trouble is personal and effects on a
small scale while issues are wide spread and can effect populations
Who believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different
social classes over the means of production and believed workers would revolt and
overthrow capitalism. He was a communist. His ideas were opposite of Comte's
positivism. Conflict theory looks at society as a competition for limited resources. -
✔️✔️Karl Marx
(1802-1876) the First Woman Sociologist believed principles of capitalism were against
the nature of Americans and that the making of workers poor and the business owners
rich contributed to the poor treatment of women and their lack of rights - ✔️✔️Harriet
Martineau
statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants -
✔️✔️Quantitative sociology
in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources of its data -
✔️✔️Qualitative sociology
a proposed explanation about social interactions or society - ✔️✔️Theory
a testable proposition - ✔️✔️Hypothesis
the social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location and
religion - ✔️✔️Social solidarity
the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the
cultural rules that govern social life - ✔️✔️Social fact
Seeing patterns means that a sociologist needs to be able to: - ✔️✔️Identify similarities
in how social groups respond to social pressure
Which of the following was a topic of study in early sociology?
a) Astrology
b) Economics
c) Physics
d) History - ✔️✔️Economics
Which founder of sociology believed societies changed due to class struggle?
a) Emile Comte
b) Karl Marx
c) Plato
d) Herbert Spencer - ✔️✔️Karl Marx
The difference between positivism and antipositivism relates to: - ✔️✔️Whether
sociological studies can predict or improve society
What would a quantitative sociologist use to gather data? - ✔️✔️A large survey
Weber believed humans could not be studied purely objectively because they were
influenced by: - ✔️✔️Their culture
,Which of these theories is most likely to look at the social world on a micro level?
a) structural functionalism
b) conflict theory
c) positivism
d) symbolic interactionism - ✔️✔️Symbolic Interactionism
Who believed that the history of society was one of class struggle? - ✔️✔️Karl Marx
Who coined the phrase symbolic interactionism? - ✔️✔️Herbert Blumer
A symbolic interactionism may compare social interactions to: - ✔️✔️Theatrical Roles
Which research technique would most likely be used by a symbolic interactionist? -
✔️✔️Participant Observation
Kenneth and Mamie Clark used sociological research to show that segregation was: -
✔️✔️Harmful
Studying sociology helps people analyze data because they learn: - ✔️✔️Interview
techniques, to apply statistics, and to generate theories
Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject?
a) the study of individual behavior
b) the study of cultures
c) the study of society and social interaction
d) the study of economics - ✔️✔️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
Berger describes sociologists as concerned with: - ✔️✔️Common everyday life events
The systematic study of society and social interaction - ✔️✔️Sociology
a group of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another
and who share a common culture - ✔️✔️Society
study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups - ✔️✔️Micro-level
, a wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society - ✔️✔️Macro-level
a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs - ✔️✔️Culture
enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within
society, that is its task and its promise - ✔️✔️Sociological imagination
the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, and all of the cultural rules
that govern social life - ✔️✔️Social Facts
the scientific study of social patterns - ✔️✔️Positivism
specific individuals that impact a person's life - ✔️✔️Significant other
the organized and generalized attitude of a social group - ✔️✔️Generalized other
a German word that means to understand in a deep way - ✔️✔️Verstehen
the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to
represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values - ✔️✔️Antipositivism
an error of trading an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existence -
✔️✔️Reification
the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that
shapes that - ✔️✔️Behavior Figuration
Who was the world's first sociologist? - ✔️✔️Ibn Khaldun
Difference between troubles and issues - ✔️✔️Trouble is personal and effects on a
small scale while issues are wide spread and can effect populations
Who believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different
social classes over the means of production and believed workers would revolt and
overthrow capitalism. He was a communist. His ideas were opposite of Comte's
positivism. Conflict theory looks at society as a competition for limited resources. -
✔️✔️Karl Marx
(1802-1876) the First Woman Sociologist believed principles of capitalism were against
the nature of Americans and that the making of workers poor and the business owners
rich contributed to the poor treatment of women and their lack of rights - ✔️✔️Harriet
Martineau
