SOC 100 (Purdue) Exam 1 UPDATED
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
The study of human society - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious
thought - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and
social structures. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sociological Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Wright Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and
reproduce themselves over time. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social Institution
Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Karl
Marx, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism." - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Auguste Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Harriet Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe Morals and
Manners - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Harriet Martineau
,Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided the theoretical
basis for Communism. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Karl Marx
elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical Materialism. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Karl Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social
change throughout history - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Historical Materialism, by Karl
Marx
Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of modern capitalism -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social class - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Max Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Max Weber
Suggests that sociologists approach social behavior from the perspective of those engaging in
it. In other words, a sociologist must understand the meanings people attach to their actions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Verstehen, by Max Weber
Wished to understand how society holds together and how modern capitalism and
industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to one another. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to sociology. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
Argument that one of the main social forces leading to suicide is a sense of normlessness
resulting from drastic changes in living conditions or arrangements.
, by ___ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
, Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The Elementary Forms of
Religious Life - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by
certain observable relationships. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Georg Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- formal sociology, by
Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger, and the poor. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural sociology -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Georg Simmel
Sociology characterized by empirical research primarily conducted throughout the city of
Chicago. Was best embodied by what came to be referred to as the Chicago School -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- American Sociology
Concept that humans' behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical
environments - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social ecology
the basic premise of the Chicago School - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social ecology
The theory of the "social self " emerged from the work of which social psychologists? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead
Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
The study of human society - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious
thought - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and
social structures. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Sociological Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- C. Wright Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and
reproduce themselves over time. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social Institution
Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Karl
Marx, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism." - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Auguste Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Harriet Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe Morals and
Manners - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Harriet Martineau
,Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided the theoretical
basis for Communism. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Karl Marx
elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical Materialism. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Karl Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social
change throughout history - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Historical Materialism, by Karl
Marx
Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of modern capitalism -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social class - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Max Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Max Weber
Suggests that sociologists approach social behavior from the perspective of those engaging in
it. In other words, a sociologist must understand the meanings people attach to their actions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Verstehen, by Max Weber
Wished to understand how society holds together and how modern capitalism and
industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to one another. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to sociology. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
Argument that one of the main social forces leading to suicide is a sense of normlessness
resulting from drastic changes in living conditions or arrangements.
, by ___ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
, Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The Elementary Forms of
Religious Life - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Émile Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by
certain observable relationships. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Georg Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- formal sociology, by
Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger, and the poor. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural sociology -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Georg Simmel
Sociology characterized by empirical research primarily conducted throughout the city of
Chicago. Was best embodied by what came to be referred to as the Chicago School -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- American Sociology
Concept that humans' behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical
environments - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social ecology
the basic premise of the Chicago School - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Social ecology
The theory of the "social self " emerged from the work of which social psychologists? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead
