Soc 1 PSU Exam with 100% correct answers 2024

Sociological Imagination correct answers The application of imaginative thought to the asking and answering of sociological questions Microsociology correct answers The study of everyday, face to face interaction Macrosociology correct answers The analysis of large social systems and institutions Social Structure correct answers The underlying regularities or patterns in how people behave and in their relationship to one another Social Constructionism correct answers Social reality is constructed through power relationships, the aggregation of meaning, and their representation in relationships between the signifier and signified The Enlightenment correct answers The scientific revolution began, societies moved away from monarchy and religious authority, birth of the modern era, start of industrial revolution Comte correct answers Came up with the term sociology in France in the 1800s, promoted positivism Thought social scientists would be able to predict and control social behavior through scientific knowledge Double Consciousness correct answers DuBois- a way of talking about identity through the lens of the experiences of African Americans. Anomie correct answers Normlessness Lack of shared norms and values Nothing binds society together Social despair Emile Durkheim correct answers Studied social facts, disagreed with Marx, saw society as a body (all parts are needed to function), interested in what societies need to function smoothly, studied social constraints, isolation, and anomies in relation to social change and human behavior Organic Solidarity correct answers Durkheim- the social cohesion that results from the various parts of a society functioning as an integrated whole Division of Labor correct answers Durkheim- Specialization of work tasks by means of which different occupations are combined within a production system