Sociology 103 – Midterm Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a discipline that tries to understand
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the relationship between the individual and the social
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- state of mind that helps us to see how people are shaped by social
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things they don't see
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- systematic study of social things
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Emily Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-States: Sociology is the study
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of social facts
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"manners, of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual,
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which are invested with coercive power by virtue of which they exercise
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control over him" | |
Charles Lemert - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Social Things: An Introduction
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to the Sociological Life
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uses term "social things" to refer to what it is we mean when we are
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taking about those larger things that shape individuals
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,EX: social institutions, social networks, culture, ideas, social norms
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Nacirema: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Published 1956
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Satire
Denaturalize: make the familiar strange | | | | |
-Importance of stepping back and examining our own culture and
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society from others perspectives
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Social imagination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the ability to see the link
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between society and self | | |
C. Wright Mills
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-sociologist at columbia | | |
- writing at a time of national anxiety (nuclear war, fascism)
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Book: 1959 |
1. see the links between biography and history
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2. helps to distinguish between personal troubles and public issues
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,a new quality of mind - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mills thinks that
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Americans most need _ to help us to better understand the connections
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between the world and our own lives | | | | | |
Emile Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-was first to articulate a
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definition of sociology in 1894, as the science of social facts; things ,
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that is, realities external to the individual
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false - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T/F Horace Miner wrote the Nacrimea
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people in order to demonstrate how different they are from americans
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FALSE - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T/F Mills' sociological imagination
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enables us to best understand ourselves as unique individuals,
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untouched by the world around us. | | | | |
Suicide (1897) - Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- one of the most
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influential sociological studies ever | | | |
- regarded as brilliant demonstration of relationship between individuals
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and social life
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- Comparative Method: compares across groups to discover or test a
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theory about a social phenomenon| | | | |
Main Findings | |
, - something more than individual loneliness/desperation/moral failing
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(there wouldn't be clear patterns)
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- cannot be explained with biology/psychology
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- higher among protestants than Catholics/Jews
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- higher among people who were childless than parents
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- higher among single people than married
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- high in times of peace than war
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Suicide - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- not just a personal fact but a social
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fact |
- not just private distress or pain - if it were we would expect people to
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kill themselves at similar or random rates
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- social factors causes
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- most likely to occur when social ties are too weak or too strong
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Differences in rates can be attributed to differences in Social Integration
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Social integration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-how connected people are to
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each other and to shared ways of thinking and acting
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Egoistic Suicide (Durkheim) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-suicide that results
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from low social integration, excessive individualism and isolation;
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committed by people who are not strongly bound to social groups
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Questions With Correct Answers
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a discipline that tries to understand
| | | | | | | | |
the relationship between the individual and the social
| | | | | | | |
- state of mind that helps us to see how people are shaped by social
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
things they don't see
| | | |
- systematic study of social things
| | | | |
Emily Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-States: Sociology is the study
| | | | | | | | |
of social facts
| | |
"manners, of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual,
| | | | | | | | | |
which are invested with coercive power by virtue of which they exercise
| | | | | | | | | | | |
control over him" | |
Charles Lemert - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Social Things: An Introduction
| | | | | | | |
to the Sociological Life
| | |
uses term "social things" to refer to what it is we mean when we are
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
taking about those larger things that shape individuals
| | | | | | | |
,EX: social institutions, social networks, culture, ideas, social norms
| | | | | | | |
Nacirema: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Published 1956
| | | |
Satire
Denaturalize: make the familiar strange | | | | |
-Importance of stepping back and examining our own culture and
| | | | | | | | | |
society from others perspectives
| | |
Social imagination - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the ability to see the link
| | | | | | | | | |
between society and self | | |
C. Wright Mills
| | |
-sociologist at columbia | | |
- writing at a time of national anxiety (nuclear war, fascism)
| | | | | | | | | | |
Book: 1959 |
1. see the links between biography and history
| | | | | | | |
2. helps to distinguish between personal troubles and public issues
| | | | | | | | |
,a new quality of mind - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mills thinks that
| | | | | | | | | |
Americans most need _ to help us to better understand the connections
| | | | | | | | | | | |
between the world and our own lives | | | | | |
Emile Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-was first to articulate a
| | | | | | | | |
definition of sociology in 1894, as the science of social facts; things ,
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
that is, realities external to the individual
| | | | | |
false - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T/F Horace Miner wrote the Nacrimea
| | | | | | | | |
people in order to demonstrate how different they are from americans
| | | | | | | | | |
FALSE - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-T/F Mills' sociological imagination
| | | | | | |
enables us to best understand ourselves as unique individuals,
| | | | | | | | |
untouched by the world around us. | | | | |
Suicide (1897) - Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- one of the most
| | | | | | | | | | |
influential sociological studies ever | | | |
- regarded as brilliant demonstration of relationship between individuals
| | | | | | | |
and social life
| | | |
- Comparative Method: compares across groups to discover or test a
| | | | | | | | | | |
theory about a social phenomenon| | | | |
Main Findings | |
, - something more than individual loneliness/desperation/moral failing
| | | | | | |
(there wouldn't be clear patterns)
| | | | |
- cannot be explained with biology/psychology
| | | | | |
- higher among protestants than Catholics/Jews
| | | | | |
- higher among people who were childless than parents
| | | | | | | | |
- higher among single people than married
| | | | | | |
- high in times of peace than war
| | | | | | |
Suicide - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- not just a personal fact but a social
| | | | | | | | | | | |
fact |
- not just private distress or pain - if it were we would expect people to
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
kill themselves at similar or random rates
| | | | | | |
- social factors causes
| | | |
- most likely to occur when social ties are too weak or too strong
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Differences in rates can be attributed to differences in Social Integration
| | | | | | | | | |
Social integration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-how connected people are to
| | | | | | | |
each other and to shared ways of thinking and acting
| | | | | | | | | |
Egoistic Suicide (Durkheim) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-suicide that results
| | | | | | | |
from low social integration, excessive individualism and isolation;
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committed by people who are not strongly bound to social groups
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