SOCIOLOGY 101 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

SOCIOLOGY 101 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS

●● Sociology emerges as a separate field in Europe during the...
Answer: 19th century


●● What is the main focus of sociology?
Answer: The group


●● The first sociological study in France about suicide was preformed
by who?
Answer: Emile Durkheim


●● Sociological imagination
Answer: The vivid awareness of the relationship between personal
experience and the wider society


●● Who was sociological imagination developed by?
Answer: C Wright Mills


●● Who gave sociology it's name?

, Answer: August Compte


●● Which theorist believed in the struggle between the higher class
owners and lower class workers?
Answer: Karl Marx


●● Which group of theorists believed in a system of highly related
parts?
Answer: Functionalism


●● What are functions that were intended to happen?
Answer: Manifest functions


●● What are functions that were not intended to happen?
Answer: Latent functions


●● Culture
Answer: All that humans learn to do, use, know, and believe


●● What is happening to the number of traditional families?
Answer: Decreasing


●● Name the six functions of a family: