SOCIOLOGY EXAM 1 CHAPTERS 1 6
EXAM PREP SOLVED QUESTIONS
ACCURATE ANSWERS PREMIUM REVIEW
◉ sociological imagination
Answer: the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of
an individuals life to seemingly impersonel and remote historical
forces-> C. Wright Mills
◉ social institution
Answer: a complex group of interdependent positions that,
together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves over
time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society
that works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within
them
◉ Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Answer: invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism"
- we could determine right and wrong without reference to higher
powers or other religious concepts
◉ positivism
Answer: arose out of a need to make moral sense of the social
order in a time of declining religious authority
,◉ Karl Marx
Answer: Believed that it was primarily the conflicts between
classes that drove social change throughout history. He saw
history as an account of a mans struggle to gain control of and
later dominate his natural environment
-all systems have their own fault lines of conflict.
◉ Max Weber
Answer: Max Weber illustrated how social institutions are
dependent on each other. In his major work, he showed that when
a change occurred in the religious institution during the sixteenth
century, it contributed to a change in the economic institution.
Previously, most people thought of religion and economics being
autonomous and completely separated from each other.
◉ Verstehen
Answer: German for "understanding"..
The concept comes from Max Weber and is the basis of
interpretive sociology in which researchers imagine themselves
experiencing the life positions of the social actors they want to
understand rather than treating those people as subjects to be
examined
◉ Durkheim
Answer: He wished to understand how society holds together and
how modern capitalism and industrialism have transformed the
ways people relate to one another.
, ◉ "the division of labor"
Answer: Durkheim wrote this. refers to the degree to which jobs
are specialized.
◉ Anomie
Answer: a sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we
can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable; too little
social regulation; normlessness.
- Durkheim argues that one of the main social forces leading to
suicide is the sense of normlessness resulting from drastic
changes in living conditions or arrangements.
◉ Positivist sociology
Answer: a strain within sociology that believes the social world
can be described and predicted by certain describable
relationships (akin to social physics)
-----durkheim was is often considered the founding practitioner
◉ Georg Simmel
Answer: he established what we today refer to as formal sociology
- sociology of pure numbers.
~his work was influential in the development of urban sociology
and cultural sociology.
EXAM PREP SOLVED QUESTIONS
ACCURATE ANSWERS PREMIUM REVIEW
◉ sociological imagination
Answer: the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of
an individuals life to seemingly impersonel and remote historical
forces-> C. Wright Mills
◉ social institution
Answer: a complex group of interdependent positions that,
together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves over
time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society
that works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within
them
◉ Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Answer: invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism"
- we could determine right and wrong without reference to higher
powers or other religious concepts
◉ positivism
Answer: arose out of a need to make moral sense of the social
order in a time of declining religious authority
,◉ Karl Marx
Answer: Believed that it was primarily the conflicts between
classes that drove social change throughout history. He saw
history as an account of a mans struggle to gain control of and
later dominate his natural environment
-all systems have their own fault lines of conflict.
◉ Max Weber
Answer: Max Weber illustrated how social institutions are
dependent on each other. In his major work, he showed that when
a change occurred in the religious institution during the sixteenth
century, it contributed to a change in the economic institution.
Previously, most people thought of religion and economics being
autonomous and completely separated from each other.
◉ Verstehen
Answer: German for "understanding"..
The concept comes from Max Weber and is the basis of
interpretive sociology in which researchers imagine themselves
experiencing the life positions of the social actors they want to
understand rather than treating those people as subjects to be
examined
◉ Durkheim
Answer: He wished to understand how society holds together and
how modern capitalism and industrialism have transformed the
ways people relate to one another.
, ◉ "the division of labor"
Answer: Durkheim wrote this. refers to the degree to which jobs
are specialized.
◉ Anomie
Answer: a sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we
can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable; too little
social regulation; normlessness.
- Durkheim argues that one of the main social forces leading to
suicide is the sense of normlessness resulting from drastic
changes in living conditions or arrangements.
◉ Positivist sociology
Answer: a strain within sociology that believes the social world
can be described and predicted by certain describable
relationships (akin to social physics)
-----durkheim was is often considered the founding practitioner
◉ Georg Simmel
Answer: he established what we today refer to as formal sociology
- sociology of pure numbers.
~his work was influential in the development of urban sociology
and cultural sociology.
