SOCIOLOGY EXAM 1 MONTANA
STATE UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS &
ACCURATE ANSWERS PASSED 100%
Sociology - Correct Answer ✔✔ Study of developmental, social structures, collective
behavior, interactions
Agency and Structure - Correct Answer ✔✔ Concepts that suggest to what extent an
individual's life is determined by social forces
social identity - Correct Answer ✔✔ Who you are is built up from the different people
you have met over your life. Think of how someone inspired you by a specific trait that
they have about themselves.
sociological imagination - Correct Answer ✔✔ Connect our personal experiences to
society at large and greater historical forces.
Differences between individual, biological, simple and sociological explanations -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Q: why do (some) college students binge drink
Answers that are lacking
Individual: they lack self-control: are risk-takers
Biological: genetically pre-disposed to alcoholism
Simple: parents didn't raise them right
Troubles vs. Issues - Correct Answer ✔✔ Troubles: privately felt problems that spring
from events or feelings in a person's life
Issues: affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional
arrangments and history of society
Social Facts - Correct Answer ✔✔ Ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist
outside of individual consciousness
Verstehen (Weber) - Correct Answer ✔✔ understanding social behavior by putting
yourself in the place of others
Social Institutions - Correct Answer ✔✔ networks of structures in society that work to
socialize the groups of people within them
, Comte - Correct Answer ✔✔ The best way to understand society is by determining the
logic or scientific laws governing human behavior
Coined the term Sociology
Martineau - Correct Answer ✔✔ Wrote about nation's social aspects (education system)
Positivism - Correct Answer ✔✔ the application of the scientific approach to the social
world
Double Consciousness - Correct Answer ✔✔ experience of knowing two worlds at
once; the dominant culture and the minority one
Marx - Correct Answer ✔✔ Historical materialism
Identifies class conflict as the primary cause of social change
Two classes
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
Alienation (comes around in a communist society)
-An emotional removal from the work that they have created
Weber - Correct Answer ✔✔ Emphasis on subjectivity
Verstehen
Focus on religion as the key to society, not just economics
Bureaucracy
Durkheim - Correct Answer ✔✔ Mechanical (pre-modern) vs. Organic (modern)
solidarity
Division of labor
Interdependence
Social facts
- Ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside of individual consciousness
Functionalism Manifest - Correct Answer ✔✔ A consequence that is intended and
recognized
Functionalism Latent - Correct Answer ✔✔ unintended and unanticipated disruptions of
order and stability
Conflict Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Focus on power - use and abuse. Often takes an
economic angle
STATE UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS &
ACCURATE ANSWERS PASSED 100%
Sociology - Correct Answer ✔✔ Study of developmental, social structures, collective
behavior, interactions
Agency and Structure - Correct Answer ✔✔ Concepts that suggest to what extent an
individual's life is determined by social forces
social identity - Correct Answer ✔✔ Who you are is built up from the different people
you have met over your life. Think of how someone inspired you by a specific trait that
they have about themselves.
sociological imagination - Correct Answer ✔✔ Connect our personal experiences to
society at large and greater historical forces.
Differences between individual, biological, simple and sociological explanations -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Q: why do (some) college students binge drink
Answers that are lacking
Individual: they lack self-control: are risk-takers
Biological: genetically pre-disposed to alcoholism
Simple: parents didn't raise them right
Troubles vs. Issues - Correct Answer ✔✔ Troubles: privately felt problems that spring
from events or feelings in a person's life
Issues: affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional
arrangments and history of society
Social Facts - Correct Answer ✔✔ Ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist
outside of individual consciousness
Verstehen (Weber) - Correct Answer ✔✔ understanding social behavior by putting
yourself in the place of others
Social Institutions - Correct Answer ✔✔ networks of structures in society that work to
socialize the groups of people within them
, Comte - Correct Answer ✔✔ The best way to understand society is by determining the
logic or scientific laws governing human behavior
Coined the term Sociology
Martineau - Correct Answer ✔✔ Wrote about nation's social aspects (education system)
Positivism - Correct Answer ✔✔ the application of the scientific approach to the social
world
Double Consciousness - Correct Answer ✔✔ experience of knowing two worlds at
once; the dominant culture and the minority one
Marx - Correct Answer ✔✔ Historical materialism
Identifies class conflict as the primary cause of social change
Two classes
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
Alienation (comes around in a communist society)
-An emotional removal from the work that they have created
Weber - Correct Answer ✔✔ Emphasis on subjectivity
Verstehen
Focus on religion as the key to society, not just economics
Bureaucracy
Durkheim - Correct Answer ✔✔ Mechanical (pre-modern) vs. Organic (modern)
solidarity
Division of labor
Interdependence
Social facts
- Ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside of individual consciousness
Functionalism Manifest - Correct Answer ✔✔ A consequence that is intended and
recognized
Functionalism Latent - Correct Answer ✔✔ unintended and unanticipated disruptions of
order and stability
Conflict Theory - Correct Answer ✔✔ Focus on power - use and abuse. Often takes an
economic angle
