SOC 460 Test 1 Questions Answered Correctly Latest Version 2025-2026
Demaistre & Debonald - Answers Counter-enlightenment. Believed in the power of authority and of
having one person in power. Conservative thinking with religious foundation. Emphasized social order
and society.
Enlightenment/Comte - Answers Influenced by philosophy & science. Applied scientific method to social
issues.
Social contract - Answers Comte believed you need consensus over basic rules (constitution), division of
labor, and force (police).
Comte's progression of knowledge - Answers Epistemology - theory of knowledge. Comte believe that
ideas govern the world and that ideas are explained through history (idealist). Method to learn was
through observation, experimentation, and comparison.
Social Statics - Answers Investigation of laws of action/reaction of the different parts of the social
system. The method of analyzing this method of study is through theory (deducing human nature).
Focused on society as a whole rather than the individual.
Social dynamics - Answers Society follows a law of successive development (phenomena) that can be
understood.
Positivism - Answers The search for invariant laws of both the natural and social world through theory
and research.
Law of three stages - Answers Theological, metaphysical, and positivist stages
Theological stage - Answers human mind is searching for the nature of things (origin)
Metaphysical stage - Answers Nature and other abstract forces are used to explain things.
Positivist stage - Answers Development of understanding that science leads to knowledge. Characterized
by abstract laws of theory.
Values of enlightenment - Answers Science, free thinking, art, individualism, democracy, progress,
secularism.
Durkheim on social realism - Answers idea that society is an objectively real entity that exists
independently and autonomously of any particular individual. Made up of social facts that are the
norms, values, and structures of a society.
Suicide trends - Answers Low birth rate lead to greater suicide, suicide rates in a particular area usually
remained at the same level, social changes that do not meet the individual's expectation.
egoistic suicide - Answers results from low integration of individuals into groups.
Demaistre & Debonald - Answers Counter-enlightenment. Believed in the power of authority and of
having one person in power. Conservative thinking with religious foundation. Emphasized social order
and society.
Enlightenment/Comte - Answers Influenced by philosophy & science. Applied scientific method to social
issues.
Social contract - Answers Comte believed you need consensus over basic rules (constitution), division of
labor, and force (police).
Comte's progression of knowledge - Answers Epistemology - theory of knowledge. Comte believe that
ideas govern the world and that ideas are explained through history (idealist). Method to learn was
through observation, experimentation, and comparison.
Social Statics - Answers Investigation of laws of action/reaction of the different parts of the social
system. The method of analyzing this method of study is through theory (deducing human nature).
Focused on society as a whole rather than the individual.
Social dynamics - Answers Society follows a law of successive development (phenomena) that can be
understood.
Positivism - Answers The search for invariant laws of both the natural and social world through theory
and research.
Law of three stages - Answers Theological, metaphysical, and positivist stages
Theological stage - Answers human mind is searching for the nature of things (origin)
Metaphysical stage - Answers Nature and other abstract forces are used to explain things.
Positivist stage - Answers Development of understanding that science leads to knowledge. Characterized
by abstract laws of theory.
Values of enlightenment - Answers Science, free thinking, art, individualism, democracy, progress,
secularism.
Durkheim on social realism - Answers idea that society is an objectively real entity that exists
independently and autonomously of any particular individual. Made up of social facts that are the
norms, values, and structures of a society.
Suicide trends - Answers Low birth rate lead to greater suicide, suicide rates in a particular area usually
remained at the same level, social changes that do not meet the individual's expectation.
egoistic suicide - Answers results from low integration of individuals into groups.
