EXPERIENCE SOCIOLOGY TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS , 5TH
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1.Sociology - ANSWER Systematic and scientific study of human social behavior (including its origins,
development, organization, networks, and institutions).
Sociology particularly places special emphasis on studying societies, both as individual entities and as
elements of a global perspective.
2.Auguste Comte - ANSWER 1798-1857; Father of Sociology.
Began studying as a result of the chaos following the French and Industrial Revolutions.
Most of his finding have been disregarded as they were based on personal observation rather than
objective investigation.
3.Scientific Method - ANSWER A logical, systematic approach to the solution of a problem that entails a
series of steps, including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating
conclusions.
4.Positivism - ANSWER The application of the scientific method towards the analysis of society.
The belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation, in this case particularly that
society can best be understood through scientific inquiry.
5.Sociology was first taught... - ANSWER University of Kansas in 1890.
University of Chicago in 1892.
Atlanta University in 1897.
6.First Department of Sociology founded at... - ANSWER McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1922.
Harvard in 1930.
University of California at Berkeley in 1950s.
7.Qualitative Sociology - ANSWER Understands societies by immersing oneself in the group's
experiences.
,Including in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data.
developed by Albion Small.
8.Quantitative Sociology - ANSWER Understands societies by observing the group.
Relies on statistical analysis to understand experiences and trends.
9.Albion Small - ANSWER 1854-1926
developed qualitative sociology.
10.Anthropology - ANSWER The study of individual cultures in a society, rather than the society as a
whole.
Traditionally, it focuses on "primitive" cultures and their languages, kinship patterns, and cultural
artifacts.
11.Political Science - ANSWER The study of government in societies.
12.Psychology - ANSWER The study of the mental processes that occur within an individual and how
society effects them, specifically.
Particularly brain functions, memory, dreams, learning, and perception.
13.Economics - ANSWER The study of production and distribution of a society's goods and services.
14.Social Work v. Sociology - ANSWER Social Work is an applied science, as it is designed to solve a
specific problem using knowledge gleaned from sociological study.
15.Society - ANSWER group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture.
16.Social Groups - ANSWER two or more peoplewho interact with one another.
17.What is necessary for a society? - ANSWER Territory, Interaction, Culture
,18.Territory - ANSWER ...does not require geographic borders, only that members of a society- as well as
nonmembers- recognize that land as belonging to that society.
19.Interaction - ANSWER Members of a society must come in contact with one another.
Geographic distance and language barriers can separate societies within a country.
20.Culture - ANSWER The shared language, values, beliefs, behavior, and material that constitute a
society's way of life.
21.Pluralistic Society - ANSWER A society which consists of several distinct cultures and groups
22.Assimilation - ANSWER The process of shedding one's original traditions in order to fit into a new
society.
23.Melting Pot - ANSWER a society consisting of peoples from different societies who blend together
into a single mass society.
24.Equality - ANSWER The idea/belief that all people are of equal worth.
Informal mechanisms such as prejudice and discrimination, work to elevate certain groups and oppress
others, thusly eliminating equality.
25.What are the basic characteristics of a hunter-gatherer society? - ANSWER Family-based and driven,
Small and nomadic,
Generally Interdependent,
Labor division is based on sex, with men hunting and women gathering.
26.Hunter-Gatherer Societies - ANSWER A nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and
harvesting wild food.
Fell out of style 12,000 years ago; before then most societies were H-G.
, 27.Horticultural Society - ANSWER A society based on the cultivation of plants with hand tools.
Horticultural societies stayed longer in areas, as opposed to H-G or Pastoral.
Emerged 10-12,000 years ago.
28.Pastoral Society - ANSWER A society that relies on domesticated animals as the main source of food.
pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a
single location.
29.Job Specialization - ANSWER When everyone was no longer needed to produce food, they were free
to take up other roles in the society.
30.Agricultural Society - ANSWER tended crops with an animal harnessed to a plow.
31.The sequence of an agricultural society? - ANSWER Animals pull plows,
large land area is cultivated,
soil is aerated, yielding more crops over time,
productivity increases,
towns emerge,
job specialization,
economy intensifies.
First Social Revolution - ANSWER The domestication of plants and animals.
Led to the birth of horticultural and pastoral societies.
Second Social Revolution - ANSWER Invention of the Plow.
Led to agricultural societies emerging 5-6,000 years ago.
EDITION BY DAVID CROTEAU| TESTED AND APPROVED 100%
1.Sociology - ANSWER Systematic and scientific study of human social behavior (including its origins,
development, organization, networks, and institutions).
Sociology particularly places special emphasis on studying societies, both as individual entities and as
elements of a global perspective.
2.Auguste Comte - ANSWER 1798-1857; Father of Sociology.
Began studying as a result of the chaos following the French and Industrial Revolutions.
Most of his finding have been disregarded as they were based on personal observation rather than
objective investigation.
3.Scientific Method - ANSWER A logical, systematic approach to the solution of a problem that entails a
series of steps, including collecting data, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and stating
conclusions.
4.Positivism - ANSWER The application of the scientific method towards the analysis of society.
The belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation, in this case particularly that
society can best be understood through scientific inquiry.
5.Sociology was first taught... - ANSWER University of Kansas in 1890.
University of Chicago in 1892.
Atlanta University in 1897.
6.First Department of Sociology founded at... - ANSWER McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1922.
Harvard in 1930.
University of California at Berkeley in 1950s.
7.Qualitative Sociology - ANSWER Understands societies by immersing oneself in the group's
experiences.
,Including in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data.
developed by Albion Small.
8.Quantitative Sociology - ANSWER Understands societies by observing the group.
Relies on statistical analysis to understand experiences and trends.
9.Albion Small - ANSWER 1854-1926
developed qualitative sociology.
10.Anthropology - ANSWER The study of individual cultures in a society, rather than the society as a
whole.
Traditionally, it focuses on "primitive" cultures and their languages, kinship patterns, and cultural
artifacts.
11.Political Science - ANSWER The study of government in societies.
12.Psychology - ANSWER The study of the mental processes that occur within an individual and how
society effects them, specifically.
Particularly brain functions, memory, dreams, learning, and perception.
13.Economics - ANSWER The study of production and distribution of a society's goods and services.
14.Social Work v. Sociology - ANSWER Social Work is an applied science, as it is designed to solve a
specific problem using knowledge gleaned from sociological study.
15.Society - ANSWER group of people with common territory, interaction, and culture.
16.Social Groups - ANSWER two or more peoplewho interact with one another.
17.What is necessary for a society? - ANSWER Territory, Interaction, Culture
,18.Territory - ANSWER ...does not require geographic borders, only that members of a society- as well as
nonmembers- recognize that land as belonging to that society.
19.Interaction - ANSWER Members of a society must come in contact with one another.
Geographic distance and language barriers can separate societies within a country.
20.Culture - ANSWER The shared language, values, beliefs, behavior, and material that constitute a
society's way of life.
21.Pluralistic Society - ANSWER A society which consists of several distinct cultures and groups
22.Assimilation - ANSWER The process of shedding one's original traditions in order to fit into a new
society.
23.Melting Pot - ANSWER a society consisting of peoples from different societies who blend together
into a single mass society.
24.Equality - ANSWER The idea/belief that all people are of equal worth.
Informal mechanisms such as prejudice and discrimination, work to elevate certain groups and oppress
others, thusly eliminating equality.
25.What are the basic characteristics of a hunter-gatherer society? - ANSWER Family-based and driven,
Small and nomadic,
Generally Interdependent,
Labor division is based on sex, with men hunting and women gathering.
26.Hunter-Gatherer Societies - ANSWER A nomadic people who live chiefly by hunting, fishing, and
harvesting wild food.
Fell out of style 12,000 years ago; before then most societies were H-G.
, 27.Horticultural Society - ANSWER A society based on the cultivation of plants with hand tools.
Horticultural societies stayed longer in areas, as opposed to H-G or Pastoral.
Emerged 10-12,000 years ago.
28.Pastoral Society - ANSWER A society that relies on domesticated animals as the main source of food.
pastoral nomads lead their animals to seasonal grazing grounds rather than settling permanently in a
single location.
29.Job Specialization - ANSWER When everyone was no longer needed to produce food, they were free
to take up other roles in the society.
30.Agricultural Society - ANSWER tended crops with an animal harnessed to a plow.
31.The sequence of an agricultural society? - ANSWER Animals pull plows,
large land area is cultivated,
soil is aerated, yielding more crops over time,
productivity increases,
towns emerge,
job specialization,
economy intensifies.
First Social Revolution - ANSWER The domestication of plants and animals.
Led to the birth of horticultural and pastoral societies.
Second Social Revolution - ANSWER Invention of the Plow.
Led to agricultural societies emerging 5-6,000 years ago.
