SOCIOLOGY EXAM 1: CH. 1-5 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

SOCIOLOGY EXAM 1: CH. 1-5
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
sociology - ANSWER-scientific study of social behavior and human groups
ex: social life, community, society

sociological imagination - ANSWER-C. Wright Mills
an awareness of the relationship between an individual and wider society

Auguste Comet - ANSWER-investigation of behavior
coined term "sociology"

Emile Durkheim - ANSWER-behavior must be understood within larger social
context
Anomie

Anomie - ANSWER-loss of direction felt in society when social control of individual
behavior becomes ineffective
ex: Purge

Max Weber - ANSWER-Verstehen and Ideal type

Verstehen - ANSWER-empathy

Ideal Type - ANSWER-Construct perfection

Karl Marx - ANSWER-The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto - ANSWER-working class should overthrow existing
system

Double conciousness - ANSWER-division of individual's identity into 2 or more social
realities

Charles Horton Cooley - ANSWER-used sociological perspective to examine face-to-
face groups
mirror = eyes of society

Pierre Bourdieu - ANSWER-Cultural capitol and social capitol

Cultural capitol - ANSWER-non-ecomomic goods reflected in knowledge of language
and arts

Social capitol - ANSWER-collective benefit of social network
ex: friends

Functionalist Perspective - ANSWER-Harmony and stability