SOC 1010 - Quiz #1 with 100% Correct
Solutions
market model of higher education - ANSWER-Idea that college is a business and that
the student is the consumer.
sociological imagination - ANSWER-
milieu - ANSWER-A person's social environment.
empirical questions - ANSWER-Questions that are answerable by measuring, counting,
or looking to see what happens.
aesthetic question - ANSWER-A question about what is subjectively pleasing to the
senses.
crisis of modernity - ANSWER-Mass industrialization/
urbanizaton. 19th century Europe was struggling with this. New types of relationships
emerged, like the relationships between worker and boss, or parent and child.
historical materialism - ANSWER-The conflict between classes drove social changes
throughout history.
rationalization - ANSWER-Modes of precise calculation and organization increasingly
come to dominate the social work.
organic solidarity - ANSWER-Society must function as an integrated whole.
Durk - ANSWER-The division of labor is the main dynamic.
Marx - ANSWER-Main dynamic is the expansion of capitalism.
Weber - ANSWER-The rationalization of social and economic life is the main dynamic.
Durk - ANSWER-Sociology must be the study of social facts and things.
Marx - ANSWER-Important that we study the divisions within a society.
Weber - ANSWER-Focus on why Western societies developed so differently from other
societies and social change.
, functionalism - ANSWER-Social events can be best explained by the function they
perform.
conflict theory - ANSWER-Society is held together by coercion.
queer theory - ANSWER-Based on the argument that there is no fixed identity that
states who we are
critical race theory - ANSWER-Examines the relationship between racial categories and
power.
symbolic interactionism - ANSWER-Shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions
from the basic motivation behind people's actions.
cultural feminism - ANSWER-A theory of society that assumes that traditionally defined
feminine values are superior to traditionally defined male values.
critical pragmatism - ANSWER-A theory of science that emphasizes the need to apply
knowledge to everyday problems based on radical interpretations of liberal and
progressive values.
positivism - ANSWER-Law of social physics, normal science model
interpretivism - ANSWER-More concerned with the meanings of social phenomena to
individuals.
American Sociological Association - ANSWER-The national organization of sociologists
for articulating policy and implementing programs likely to have the broadest possibly
impact on sociology now and in the future.
American Journal of Sociology - ANSWER-First ever research journal for sociology.
Hull House - ANSWER-Institution or an organization that provides social services.
color line - ANSWER-The barrier that's physical that African Americans can be
distinguished visually, but is also a barrier that is in invisible and psychological, because
African Americans find it difficult to see themselves in a different way than white
Americans saw them.
moral question - ANSWER-Calls for a judgement about what is right to do.
nihilism - ANSWER-"There is no truth. Anyone can make up numbers. You might as
well believe what you want."
Solutions
market model of higher education - ANSWER-Idea that college is a business and that
the student is the consumer.
sociological imagination - ANSWER-
milieu - ANSWER-A person's social environment.
empirical questions - ANSWER-Questions that are answerable by measuring, counting,
or looking to see what happens.
aesthetic question - ANSWER-A question about what is subjectively pleasing to the
senses.
crisis of modernity - ANSWER-Mass industrialization/
urbanizaton. 19th century Europe was struggling with this. New types of relationships
emerged, like the relationships between worker and boss, or parent and child.
historical materialism - ANSWER-The conflict between classes drove social changes
throughout history.
rationalization - ANSWER-Modes of precise calculation and organization increasingly
come to dominate the social work.
organic solidarity - ANSWER-Society must function as an integrated whole.
Durk - ANSWER-The division of labor is the main dynamic.
Marx - ANSWER-Main dynamic is the expansion of capitalism.
Weber - ANSWER-The rationalization of social and economic life is the main dynamic.
Durk - ANSWER-Sociology must be the study of social facts and things.
Marx - ANSWER-Important that we study the divisions within a society.
Weber - ANSWER-Focus on why Western societies developed so differently from other
societies and social change.
, functionalism - ANSWER-Social events can be best explained by the function they
perform.
conflict theory - ANSWER-Society is held together by coercion.
queer theory - ANSWER-Based on the argument that there is no fixed identity that
states who we are
critical race theory - ANSWER-Examines the relationship between racial categories and
power.
symbolic interactionism - ANSWER-Shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions
from the basic motivation behind people's actions.
cultural feminism - ANSWER-A theory of society that assumes that traditionally defined
feminine values are superior to traditionally defined male values.
critical pragmatism - ANSWER-A theory of science that emphasizes the need to apply
knowledge to everyday problems based on radical interpretations of liberal and
progressive values.
positivism - ANSWER-Law of social physics, normal science model
interpretivism - ANSWER-More concerned with the meanings of social phenomena to
individuals.
American Sociological Association - ANSWER-The national organization of sociologists
for articulating policy and implementing programs likely to have the broadest possibly
impact on sociology now and in the future.
American Journal of Sociology - ANSWER-First ever research journal for sociology.
Hull House - ANSWER-Institution or an organization that provides social services.
color line - ANSWER-The barrier that's physical that African Americans can be
distinguished visually, but is also a barrier that is in invisible and psychological, because
African Americans find it difficult to see themselves in a different way than white
Americans saw them.
moral question - ANSWER-Calls for a judgement about what is right to do.
nihilism - ANSWER-"There is no truth. Anyone can make up numbers. You might as
well believe what you want."
