SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 ASU FEY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT

SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 ASU FEY
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT
Sociology - ANSWER-focuses on patterns of human behavior

Psychology - ANSWER-individual mind

Why we should study sociology - ANSWER-"Common sense"
opportunities and limitations
different perspectives

Who asked "What holds society together" - ANSWER-August Comte

Who asked "Why is there order rather than chaos" - ANSWER-August Comte

Who asked "What causes the course of society to change" - ANSWER-August
Comte

August comte promoted - ANSWER-positivism

define positivism - ANSWER-Application of scientific approach to the real world

Herbert Spencer - ANSWER-Social Darwinism
Sociologists should observe and not interfer

Social Darwinism - ANSWER-survival of the most capable and intelligent

Public sociology - ANSWER-promotes a middle ground between reform and
research

Structural functional theory - ANSWER-Framework for building a theory that sees
society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and
stablility

What are social theories - ANSWER-statements of how and why particular facts
about the social world are related

Anomie - ANSWER-Lack of social or ethical standards in a group or individual

Conflict theory - ANSWER-society is composed of groups that complete for limited
resources

Karl Max - ANSWER-introduced conflict theory (class conflict)
Proposed that revolution will usher in a classless society