C273 Intro to Sociology| QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
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Terms in this set (347)
What is a hypothesis? a tentative statement about the relationship between two or more
concepts
Which of the following It looks at personal issues from a wider, more general perspective
statements best describes the
sociological imagination
What is sociology? the academic study of social behavior
What is the first step of the Ask a question
sociological research process?
set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to
What is a theory?
describe, explain, and sometimes predict social events
Which of the following is not a Drive perspective
major sociological
perspective?
What is the difference between Correlation means two variables are related, while causation
,correlation and causation? means that one variable causes the other.
Who introduced the idea of W.E.B. DuBois
double consciousness?
What is the research method Ethnography
called when a person observes
and records in-depth detailed
information about a group of
people?
the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal
experience and the wider society. Or the Term coined by C.
Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills to describe a way of understanding the world
Wright Mills) that involves thinking about things from different
perspectives and putting personal circumstances into a
wider context.
The main objective of this help you see the larger social forces at work in all of our lives.
course is to expand your
sociological imagination or
to what?
, Sociology* can best be summed up as the systematic study
Sociology
of social life and human society
Sociologists study individual General patterns
behavior in order to find
what?
Sociologists do study how What sets sociology apart from other disciplines?
people think and feel about
the world around them, the
culture of groups, and the
allocation of resources.
However, what sets
sociology apart from other
disciplines is that it focuses
primarily on external factors
that shape individuals (unlike
psychology), industrialized
societies, rather than pre-
industrial or developing
societies (as anthropology
does), and multiple social
institutions, such as the
economy, religious
organizations, and the
government (unlike
economics).
While psychology might how the prevalence of smoking in a peer group affects the decision to
consider whether stress start smoking.
leads people to smoke at a
2025/2026 | LATEST UPDATE
Terms in this set (347)
What is a hypothesis? a tentative statement about the relationship between two or more
concepts
Which of the following It looks at personal issues from a wider, more general perspective
statements best describes the
sociological imagination
What is sociology? the academic study of social behavior
What is the first step of the Ask a question
sociological research process?
set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to
What is a theory?
describe, explain, and sometimes predict social events
Which of the following is not a Drive perspective
major sociological
perspective?
What is the difference between Correlation means two variables are related, while causation
,correlation and causation? means that one variable causes the other.
Who introduced the idea of W.E.B. DuBois
double consciousness?
What is the research method Ethnography
called when a person observes
and records in-depth detailed
information about a group of
people?
the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal
experience and the wider society. Or the Term coined by C.
Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills to describe a way of understanding the world
Wright Mills) that involves thinking about things from different
perspectives and putting personal circumstances into a
wider context.
The main objective of this help you see the larger social forces at work in all of our lives.
course is to expand your
sociological imagination or
to what?
, Sociology* can best be summed up as the systematic study
Sociology
of social life and human society
Sociologists study individual General patterns
behavior in order to find
what?
Sociologists do study how What sets sociology apart from other disciplines?
people think and feel about
the world around them, the
culture of groups, and the
allocation of resources.
However, what sets
sociology apart from other
disciplines is that it focuses
primarily on external factors
that shape individuals (unlike
psychology), industrialized
societies, rather than pre-
industrial or developing
societies (as anthropology
does), and multiple social
institutions, such as the
economy, religious
organizations, and the
government (unlike
economics).
While psychology might how the prevalence of smoking in a peer group affects the decision to
consider whether stress start smoking.
leads people to smoke at a
