Sociology 1000 Mizzou CORRECT
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(RATED A+)
agency - ANSWER the capacity for people to act to change their own lives and to
influence others.
bourgeoisie - ANSWER (capitalist) - those owning the means of production, including
land, raw materials, forests, factories, and machines
bureaucracy - ANSWER an organization based on rationality, having a clear division of
labor, written rules and regulations, impersonality, hierarchical lines of authority, and
selection and promotion based on competence.
collective consciousness - ANSWER the shared norms, values, and beliefs of a society.
definition of the situation - ANSWER a statement or action that explicitly or implicitly
suggest the meaning the actor would like others to attribute to their actors.
dialectic - ANSWER a process of change over time based on the clash of historical
forces characterized by a thesis, a conflicting antithesis, and finally their resolution in a
new synthesis.
dysfunction - ANSWER the negative consequence of a social structure.
emergent properties - ANSWER important characteristics of groups that cannot be
reduced to some simple combination of characteristics of the individuals.
false consciousness - ANSWER a combination of beliefs and attitudes held by a social
class that fails to recognize the objective social position of that class and fails to
perceive the causes of social conditions related to stratification.
function - ANSWER the consequence or effect of a social structure for the society as a
whole.
Industrial Revolution - ANSWER was marked by a dramatic change in the nature of
production in which machines replace tools, steam and other energy sources replace
human or animal power, skilled workers were replaced with mostly unskilled workers.
latent functions - ANSWER the less obvious and often unintended consequences.
manifest functions - ANSWER the obvious and usually intended consequences of
actions.
, means of production - ANSWER the technologies and resources required for producing
goods or services in an economy, such as factories, raw materials, and machines.
micro-level studies - ANSWER research focusing on individuals, thoughts, actions, and
individual behaviors.
microsociology - ANSWER sociological research that focuses on individual, thoughts,
actions, and individual behaviors.
negotiated order - ANSWER a shared meaning for the situation agreed upon by all
participants.
positivism - ANSWER an approach to sociology that assumes the methods of the
natural sciences such as physics can be applied successfully to the study of social life
and the scientific principles learned can be applied to solving social problems.
proletariat - ANSWER (workers) - people who sell their labor to capitalist for wages.
competing explanation - ANSWER an alternative casual model that might account for
the findings of a study
concept - ANSWER an abstract idea or theoretical construct usually represented by a
word or brief phrase summarizing some meaningful aspect of the real world.
control variable - ANSWER a variable kept constant to remove its effect in a study.
convenience sample - ANSWER a sample of people who were selected because they
were easy to find
data - ANSWER empirically obtained information often used to test theories
dependent variable - ANSWER a variable in a casual relationship whose value tends to
change as a consequence of some change in the value of one or more independent
variables.
ethnography - ANSWER a detailed descriptive account summarizing and interpreting a
culture or a collection of people studied.
Hawthorne effect - ANSWER the unintended effects on behavior produced when people
are aware they are being studied.
hypothesis - ANSWER a testable assertion about the relationship between two or more
variables which is not known to be true but can be tested in research.
ideal type - ANSWER a type used as a model for how something might be, but is not
necessarily something which exists or is commonly found
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(RATED A+)
agency - ANSWER the capacity for people to act to change their own lives and to
influence others.
bourgeoisie - ANSWER (capitalist) - those owning the means of production, including
land, raw materials, forests, factories, and machines
bureaucracy - ANSWER an organization based on rationality, having a clear division of
labor, written rules and regulations, impersonality, hierarchical lines of authority, and
selection and promotion based on competence.
collective consciousness - ANSWER the shared norms, values, and beliefs of a society.
definition of the situation - ANSWER a statement or action that explicitly or implicitly
suggest the meaning the actor would like others to attribute to their actors.
dialectic - ANSWER a process of change over time based on the clash of historical
forces characterized by a thesis, a conflicting antithesis, and finally their resolution in a
new synthesis.
dysfunction - ANSWER the negative consequence of a social structure.
emergent properties - ANSWER important characteristics of groups that cannot be
reduced to some simple combination of characteristics of the individuals.
false consciousness - ANSWER a combination of beliefs and attitudes held by a social
class that fails to recognize the objective social position of that class and fails to
perceive the causes of social conditions related to stratification.
function - ANSWER the consequence or effect of a social structure for the society as a
whole.
Industrial Revolution - ANSWER was marked by a dramatic change in the nature of
production in which machines replace tools, steam and other energy sources replace
human or animal power, skilled workers were replaced with mostly unskilled workers.
latent functions - ANSWER the less obvious and often unintended consequences.
manifest functions - ANSWER the obvious and usually intended consequences of
actions.
, means of production - ANSWER the technologies and resources required for producing
goods or services in an economy, such as factories, raw materials, and machines.
micro-level studies - ANSWER research focusing on individuals, thoughts, actions, and
individual behaviors.
microsociology - ANSWER sociological research that focuses on individual, thoughts,
actions, and individual behaviors.
negotiated order - ANSWER a shared meaning for the situation agreed upon by all
participants.
positivism - ANSWER an approach to sociology that assumes the methods of the
natural sciences such as physics can be applied successfully to the study of social life
and the scientific principles learned can be applied to solving social problems.
proletariat - ANSWER (workers) - people who sell their labor to capitalist for wages.
competing explanation - ANSWER an alternative casual model that might account for
the findings of a study
concept - ANSWER an abstract idea or theoretical construct usually represented by a
word or brief phrase summarizing some meaningful aspect of the real world.
control variable - ANSWER a variable kept constant to remove its effect in a study.
convenience sample - ANSWER a sample of people who were selected because they
were easy to find
data - ANSWER empirically obtained information often used to test theories
dependent variable - ANSWER a variable in a casual relationship whose value tends to
change as a consequence of some change in the value of one or more independent
variables.
ethnography - ANSWER a detailed descriptive account summarizing and interpreting a
culture or a collection of people studied.
Hawthorne effect - ANSWER the unintended effects on behavior produced when people
are aware they are being studied.
hypothesis - ANSWER a testable assertion about the relationship between two or more
variables which is not known to be true but can be tested in research.
ideal type - ANSWER a type used as a model for how something might be, but is not
necessarily something which exists or is commonly found
