SOC 100 (Purdue) Exam 1 2024/2025
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The study of human society - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much
conscious thought - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between
personal troubles and social structures. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sociological
Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔C. Wright
Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a
social role and reproduce themselves over time. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Social
Institution
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,Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl
Marx, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or
"positivism." - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Auguste Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English.
- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Harriet Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe
Morals and Manners - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Harriet Martineau
Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided
the theoretical basis for Communism. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl Marx
elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical
Materialism. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes
that drove social change throughout history - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Historical
Materialism, by Karl Marx
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,Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of
modern capitalism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social
class - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Max Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Max Weber
Suggests that sociologists approach social behavior from the perspective of
those engaging in it. In other words, a sociologist must understand the
meanings people attach to their actions. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Verstehen, by
Max Weber
Wished to understand how society holds together and how modern
capitalism and industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to
one another. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to
sociology. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
Argument that one of the main social forces leading to suicide is a sense of
normlessness resulting from drastic changes in living conditions or
arrangements.
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, , by ___ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The
Elementary Forms of Religious Life - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described
and predicted by certain observable relationships. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Georg Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔formal sociology,
by Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger,
and the poor. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural
sociology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Georg Simmel
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The study of human society - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much
conscious thought - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between
personal troubles and social structures. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sociological
Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔C. Wright
Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a
social role and reproduce themselves over time. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Social
Institution
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,Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl
Marx, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or
"positivism." - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Auguste Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English.
- 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Harriet Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe
Morals and Manners - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Harriet Martineau
Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided
the theoretical basis for Communism. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl Marx
elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical
Materialism. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes
that drove social change throughout history - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Historical
Materialism, by Karl Marx
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PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of
modern capitalism - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social
class - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Max Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Max Weber
Suggests that sociologists approach social behavior from the perspective of
those engaging in it. In other words, a sociologist must understand the
meanings people attach to their actions. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Verstehen, by
Max Weber
Wished to understand how society holds together and how modern
capitalism and industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to
one another. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to
sociology. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
Argument that one of the main social forces leading to suicide is a sense of
normlessness resulting from drastic changes in living conditions or
arrangements.
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, , by ___ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The
Elementary Forms of Religious Life - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Émile Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described
and predicted by certain observable relationships. - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔Georg Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔formal sociology,
by Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger,
and the poor. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural
sociology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Georg Simmel
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