SYG 1000 FSU EXAM 1 | UPDATED Questions with 100%
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Q1: What is sociology?
A: scientific study of human social life, groups, and societies
Q2: What is a society?
A: a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory, and is subject to the
same political authority and dominant cultural expectations
Q3: What is the sociological imagination?
A: The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and larger society
Q4: What does the sociological imagination help us do ?
A: place seemingly personal troubles, such as losing a job, into larger social context
Q5: What is a personal trouble ?
A: occur at individual members
Q6: What is a public issue ?
A: transcend the individual. occur in patterned ways to large numbers of individuals
Q7: Emile Durkheim
A: saw society as a set of specialized parts that work together
said sociology must study social facts
Q8: Karl Marx
A: saw social change as prompted by economic influences
in order for society to change class conflict must occur
Q9: Max Weber
A: sought to understand social change
saw class conflict as less significant
Q10: Harriet Martineau
A: insisted that analysis of society must include and understand women lives and minorities
Q11: Functionalism
A: sees society as a system of interrelated part
, Q12: manifest functions
A: the functions of a particular social activity that are known to and intended
Q13: latent functions
A: functional consequences that are not intended or recognized
Q14: Marxism and Class Conflict
A: sees society as a system of social inequalities
emphasis on conflict, class division, power and ideology
power, ideology
Q15: Symbolic Interactionism
A: sees society as ongoing process
emphasizes the role of language as core elements of all human interaction
ex: hi, how are you ?
Q16: Feminist Theory
A: emphasizes the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world ---- particularly the
experiences and lives of women
intention is to explain gender inequalities in society and work to overcome them
Q17: Empirical questions
A: factual questions
Q18: Theoretical questions
A: these questions encompass a wider array of specific phenomena
allows us to generalize about the nature of social life
Q19: 7 steps of research process
A: 1.Select and define the research problem
2.review previous research/evidence
3.Formulate a hypothesis
4.Select and develop the research design
5.Carry out the research: collect your data
6.Interpret the results
7. Report the research findings
Q20: 3 research methods sociologist use
A: 1. Ethnography
2.Surveys
3.Experiments
Verified Answers
Q1: What is sociology?
A: scientific study of human social life, groups, and societies
Q2: What is a society?
A: a large social grouping that shares the same geographical territory, and is subject to the
same political authority and dominant cultural expectations
Q3: What is the sociological imagination?
A: The ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and larger society
Q4: What does the sociological imagination help us do ?
A: place seemingly personal troubles, such as losing a job, into larger social context
Q5: What is a personal trouble ?
A: occur at individual members
Q6: What is a public issue ?
A: transcend the individual. occur in patterned ways to large numbers of individuals
Q7: Emile Durkheim
A: saw society as a set of specialized parts that work together
said sociology must study social facts
Q8: Karl Marx
A: saw social change as prompted by economic influences
in order for society to change class conflict must occur
Q9: Max Weber
A: sought to understand social change
saw class conflict as less significant
Q10: Harriet Martineau
A: insisted that analysis of society must include and understand women lives and minorities
Q11: Functionalism
A: sees society as a system of interrelated part
, Q12: manifest functions
A: the functions of a particular social activity that are known to and intended
Q13: latent functions
A: functional consequences that are not intended or recognized
Q14: Marxism and Class Conflict
A: sees society as a system of social inequalities
emphasis on conflict, class division, power and ideology
power, ideology
Q15: Symbolic Interactionism
A: sees society as ongoing process
emphasizes the role of language as core elements of all human interaction
ex: hi, how are you ?
Q16: Feminist Theory
A: emphasizes the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world ---- particularly the
experiences and lives of women
intention is to explain gender inequalities in society and work to overcome them
Q17: Empirical questions
A: factual questions
Q18: Theoretical questions
A: these questions encompass a wider array of specific phenomena
allows us to generalize about the nature of social life
Q19: 7 steps of research process
A: 1.Select and define the research problem
2.review previous research/evidence
3.Formulate a hypothesis
4.Select and develop the research design
5.Carry out the research: collect your data
6.Interpret the results
7. Report the research findings
Q20: 3 research methods sociologist use
A: 1. Ethnography
2.Surveys
3.Experiments