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Sociologists study groups of all sizes, what are they? - correct answers Dyads, small groups, large groups, nations, and the global society What is Sociology? - correct answers the scientific study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior Common Sense Vs. Sociology - correct answers-Common sense ideas seem sensible to any reasonable person; they are taken for granted and rarely questioned -Sociology uses scientific methods to test ideas, in...

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C. Wright Mills - correct answers- coined the term sociological imagination/ Perspective in 1959 - wrote that "the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society" Social Context - correct answers- Sociology is fundamentally concerned with how individuals participate in, and are influenced by, the society in which they live. Stereotype - correct answers A simplified generalization about a group (for example, women o...

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Sociology - correct answers The scientific study of human society and social interactions. Sociological perspective emphasizes... - correct answers Social groups, processes, and institutions as the context in which individual behavior unfolds. Public issues over personal troubles. Differential access to power. Emphasis on patterned, collective experience. Highlights factors such as social class and gender. What do medical sociologists study? - correct answers Social causes and consequences...

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Counterculture - correct answers Culture patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society. Socialization - correct answers The lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture. Values - correct answers Culturally defined standards that people use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful and that serve as broad guidelines for social living. Id - correct answers Freud's term for the human being's basic drives whic...

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Sociology - correct answers the scientific study of social behavior and human groups focus on: + How relationships influence people's attitudes and behavior + How societies develop and change science - correct answers body of knowledge obtained by methods based on systematic observation natural science - correct answers study of physical features of nature and the ways they interact and change -example: astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, and physics social science - ...

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material culture - correct answers items you can touch - buses, subway cars, bus passes, bus stop cultural universals - correct answers patterns or traits that are globally common to all societies cultural relativism - correct answers the practice of assessing a culture by its own standards rather than viewing it through the lens of one's own culture xenocentrism - correct answers the belief that another culture is superior to one's own non material culture - correct answers t...

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Culture - correct answers Learned behavior patterns which are characteristic of the members of a society and which are NOT the result of biological inheritance Culture trait - correct answers A single attribute of a culture Material culture traits - correct answers Objects people produce Nonmaterial culture traits - correct answers The ideas and beliefs of a group of people Beliefs - correct answers Ideas that are accepted as true, whether or not they are supposed by evidence Ideo...

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Augustes Comtes () - correct answers-Founder of sociology -Analyze social order -Wanted scientific method to apply Karl Marx () - correct answers-Created conflict theory -Human misery lay within class conflict -Exploitation of workers and producers, social change. -Wanted social workers to overthrow capitalists. Emilie Durkeim () - correct answers-french sociologist -Many important concepts to sociology -suicide rates in different countries -more likely to commit suicide in poorer ...

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Sociology - correct answers systematic study of human society. our social world guides our life choices sociological perspective - correct answers seeing the general in the particular. Realizing how the general categories into which we fall shape our particular life experiences. Leads to important personal growth Society - correct answers has much to do with the decisions that people make about how many children they will have. Outsider - correct answers being not part of the dominant c...

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7: Which sociologists' theory was differential association? - correct answers Edwin Sutherland 7: Which sociologists' theory was control theory? - correct answers Travis Hirschi 7: Which sociologists' theory was strain theory? - correct answers Robert Merton 7: The term secondary deviance can be defined as: a. When a person's self-concept and behavior begin to change after his or her actions are labeled as deviant by members of society. b. When a violation of norms does n...

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Sociobiology - correct answers is the systematic study of "social behavior from a biological perspective" Socialization - correct answers is the life long process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self identity and the physical, mental and social skills needed for survival in society psychoanalytic theory - correct answers Behavior and personality from unconscious forces within individuals -sigmund freud ID - correct answers is the component of personality ...

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From the functionalist perspective, the media can be dysfunctional in what way? a. They enforce social norms. b. They confer status. c. They desensitize us to events. d. They are agents of socialization. - correct answersc. They desensitize us to events. Sociologist Robert Park studied how newspapers helped immigrants to the United States adjust to their environment by changing their customary habits and by teaching them the opinions held by people in their new home country. His study wa...

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George recently learned that among a tribe of Kenya there is a social hierarchy based on gender and age, with men and elders at the top. George has learned about this tribal society's _____. Answers: a. social stratification b. wealth gap c. apartheid d. feudal system - correct answers social stratification A recent news story reported that when a newly engaged woman gave some change to a homeless man, her ring fell into his coin jar. After he proceeded to return it, he received a lar...

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Which statement best defines sociology? - correct answers It asks us to trust the experts. What is the sociological imagination? - correct answers It looks at the intersection of biography and history. Who first coined the term sociology? - correct answers Auguste Comte Which statement best describes a critical approach to sociology? - correct answers It explores the role that power plays in social processes and the reasons why some people's understandings of the world become dominan...

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The Sociological Imagination - correct answers Ability to see connections between personal experience and forces of history Comte's Three Stages of Human Development - correct answers Theological State - Nature has a will of its own Metaphysical State - Substitute ideas for personal will Positivistic State - Search for absolute knowledge Conflict Theory - correct answers Individuals and groups in society have different amounts of material and non material resources Symbolic Interac...

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Macrosociology - correct answers Sociological investigation that concentrates on large-scale phenomena or entire civilizations. microsociology - correct answers Sociological investigation that stresses the study of small groups and the analysis of our everyday interactions and experiences. Functionalist perspective - correct answers A sociological approach that emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability. Conflict perspective - correct ans...

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In contrast to psychology, sociology is a science that focuses on: - correct answers Human Groups The birthplace of sociology in the late 1700s was: - correct answers Western Europe Blake is a member of the BaylorBears Football team. To sociologists, Blake's team is a: - correct answers Secondary Group The assumption that society is a stable, orderly system is held by theorists from the: - correct answers Functionalist perspective Patti Giuffre and Christine Williams found that me...

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A social scientist conducts research on expectations and performance. He sets up two scenarios: one where a group does a task without any intervention and a second one where a different group is given the same task, but told to expect that the task will be difficult. The results are then measured. What kind of research has been conducted? - correct answers a. survey research b. experimental research c. observation studies d. field research Keith Nicholson, a Calgary resident, has worked...

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socialization - correct answers the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as members of that society Resocialization - correct answers the process by which old behaviors are removed and new behaviors are learned in their place hidden curriculum - correct answers the informal teaching done in schools that socializes children to societal norms role - correct answers behavior expected of someone who holds a particul...

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Sociology is defined as - correct answers the study of human behavior in society Sociology is a(n) ___________ discipline, meaning the conclusions are based on systematic observations. - correct answers empirical August Comte is known for: - correct answers coining the term "sociology" ___________'s work is the basis for conflict theory. - correct answers Karl Marx Which of the following social theorists coined the term "sui generis"? - correct answers Durkheim Webe...

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