WMNST 382 Midterm #1 (SDSU) with
verified answers
Epistemology - correct answer ✔✔-The study of knowledge.
-How do we know what we know?
Politics - correct answer ✔✔-Who has power? -Laws or personnel being political.
Critique - correct answer ✔✔-Not taking things for granted.
-There is always a context.
-Getting to the "root" of how something is possible.
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔-Morality
-What is good vs. what is bad?
Positivism - correct answer ✔✔-You can only call something truly scientific if you can empirically
prove it with your sense organs.
-If it can't be proven, it doesn't exist.
Falsificationism - correct answer ✔✔-If the data doesn't support the theory, then it must be
rejected.
-If the theory can always be proven right, then you are not really doing science.
(Structural) Functionalism - correct answer ✔✔-Argues that society as a whole is made up of
institutions such as family, religion, law, and they need to be working in peace with each other
in order for society to function.
verified answers
Epistemology - correct answer ✔✔-The study of knowledge.
-How do we know what we know?
Politics - correct answer ✔✔-Who has power? -Laws or personnel being political.
Critique - correct answer ✔✔-Not taking things for granted.
-There is always a context.
-Getting to the "root" of how something is possible.
Ethics - correct answer ✔✔-Morality
-What is good vs. what is bad?
Positivism - correct answer ✔✔-You can only call something truly scientific if you can empirically
prove it with your sense organs.
-If it can't be proven, it doesn't exist.
Falsificationism - correct answer ✔✔-If the data doesn't support the theory, then it must be
rejected.
-If the theory can always be proven right, then you are not really doing science.
(Structural) Functionalism - correct answer ✔✔-Argues that society as a whole is made up of
institutions such as family, religion, law, and they need to be working in peace with each other
in order for society to function.
