SOCIOLOGY EXAM 6 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
◉ society
Answer: people who share a culture and a territory
◉ social location
Answer: the group memberships that people have because of
their location in history and society
◉ Sociology
Answer: The scientific study of society and human behavior
◉ Auguste Comte
Answer: Credited as the founder of sociology, began to analyze the
bases of social order
◉ positivism
Answer: the application of the scientific approach to the social
world
,◉ class conflict
Answer: Karl Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and
workers
◉ bourgeoisie
Answer: Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the mean of
production
◉ proletariat
Answer: Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers
who do not own the means of production.
◉ Emile Durkheim
Answer: identified the key role of social integration in social life
which is central to sociology today
◉ Patterns of behavior
Answer: recurring behaviors or events
◉ Social Integration
Answer: the degree to which people are tied to their social groups
◉ basic sociology
, Answer: sociological research for the purpose of making
discoveries about life in human groups, not for making changes in
those groups
◉ applied sociology
Answer: the use of sociology to solve problems- from the micro
level of classroom interaction and family relationships to the
macro level of crime and pollution
◉ public sociology
Answer: applying sociology for the public; especially the use of
the sociological perspective. (how things are related to one
another to guide politicians and policy maker )
◉ sociological perspective
Answer: a perspective on human behavior and its connection to
society as a whole. It invites us to look for the connections
between the behavior of individual people and the structures of
the society in which they live
◉ theory
Answer: a general statement about how some parts of the world
fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or
more facts are related to one another.
◉ symbolic interaction-ism
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
◉ society
Answer: people who share a culture and a territory
◉ social location
Answer: the group memberships that people have because of
their location in history and society
◉ Sociology
Answer: The scientific study of society and human behavior
◉ Auguste Comte
Answer: Credited as the founder of sociology, began to analyze the
bases of social order
◉ positivism
Answer: the application of the scientific approach to the social
world
,◉ class conflict
Answer: Karl Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and
workers
◉ bourgeoisie
Answer: Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the mean of
production
◉ proletariat
Answer: Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers
who do not own the means of production.
◉ Emile Durkheim
Answer: identified the key role of social integration in social life
which is central to sociology today
◉ Patterns of behavior
Answer: recurring behaviors or events
◉ Social Integration
Answer: the degree to which people are tied to their social groups
◉ basic sociology
, Answer: sociological research for the purpose of making
discoveries about life in human groups, not for making changes in
those groups
◉ applied sociology
Answer: the use of sociology to solve problems- from the micro
level of classroom interaction and family relationships to the
macro level of crime and pollution
◉ public sociology
Answer: applying sociology for the public; especially the use of
the sociological perspective. (how things are related to one
another to guide politicians and policy maker )
◉ sociological perspective
Answer: a perspective on human behavior and its connection to
society as a whole. It invites us to look for the connections
between the behavior of individual people and the structures of
the society in which they live
◉ theory
Answer: a general statement about how some parts of the world
fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or
more facts are related to one another.
◉ symbolic interaction-ism
