SOCI 1311 Test 1 Review Actual study
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Ch 1 - ANSWER-Discovering Sociology
What is social imagination? - ANSWER-The ability to understand the connection between individual lives
and the social forces that shape them
Structure both enables and constrains ____, or a person's ability to enact small or large social changes -
ANSWER-Agency
Tina was just finishing her degree when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and jobs are now hard to come by.
What has constrained her job prospects? - ANSWER-Structure
26% of percent of U.S. adults believed that people tend to be poor because "they have not worked as
hard as other people." This statement reflects which of the following perspectives? - ANSWER-
Individualism
Match; the ability of individuals and groups to exercise free will and to make social changes on a small or
large scale - ANSWER-Agency
Match; the fundamental shaping of human behavior by social relations - ANSWER-Social Embeddedness
Match; patterned social arrangements that have effects on individuals' abilities to make social changes -
ANSWER-Structure
According to the social imagination, what is the distinction between troubles and issues? - ANSWER-
Troubles are personal, issues are public
The ____ is the ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and the larger social forces that
shape them - ANSWER-Social Imagination
T or F. The social imagination is a methodological tool used for selecting samples - ANSWER-False
T or F. Structure may enable or constrain social action - ANSWER-True
T or F. Passion should not play a role in sociological research - ANSWER-False
What term best describes the ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence? -
ANSWER-Critical Thinking
T or F. Arab scholar in Ibn Khaldun wrote about social conflict and cohesion hundreds of years before
sociology became an academic discipline - ANSWER-True
Match; German theorist and revolutionary who studied political economy - ANSWER-Karl Marx
Match; French social theorist who applied positivism to the study of social life - ANSWER-Auguste Comte
Match; French theorist primarily interested in social facts and social solidarity - ANSWER-Emile Durkheim
Match; English sociologist who translated earlier writings of French philosophers making the ideas
accessible to the English-speaking world - ANSWER-Harriet Martineau
How long have people been studying the nature of social life? - ANSWER-for more than 2,000 years
According to Durkheim, what is the state of normlessness that occurs when people lose sight of the
shared rules and values that give order and meaning to their lives? - ANSWER-Anomie
, What term best describes formal organizations characterized by written rules, hierarchical authority, and
paid staff, intended to promote organizational efficiency? - ANSWER-Bureaucracies
Whose work strongly influenced social conflict theory? - ANSWER-Karl Marx
Structural functionalism characterizes society as made up of many independent parts that ____ -
ANSWER-work together to ensure the smooth working of society
Which theoretical perspective would study the wage gap by examining how workers experience and
interpret their work experiences? - ANSWER-Symbolic Interactionism
What are frameworks that help us interpret social life? - ANSWER-Sociological Theories
Which option seeks to explain social organization and change in terms of the competition that is built
into social relationships? - ANSWER-Social Conflict Paradigm
T or F. The symbolic interactionist paradigm argues that we can explain social organization and change in
terms of how each part functions to support the whole. - ANSWER-False. This definition is for structural
functionalism.
Match; Stratification benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor - ANSWER-Social conflict
paradigm
Match; Stratification plays out in our daily lives even in situations where it is not directly relavent -
ANSWER-Symbolic interactionism
Match; Stratification ensures social cohesion by the just distribution of awards - ANSWER-Structural
functionalism
T or F. Robert Merton identified 2 types of functions: Manifest and Latent - ANSWER-True.
Manifest functions are obvious and intended functions of a phenomena
Latent functions are not expect functions that occur
Structural functionalism and social conflict theory are- - ANSWER-Macrolevel paradigms
Symbolic interactionism - ANSWER-Microlevel paradigm
Today we are in the middle of a technological revolution called the ___ revolution - ANSWER-Information
Match; The ability to mobilize resources and achieve goals despite the resistance of others - ANSWER-
Power
Match; Differences in wealth, power, political voice, educational opportunities, and other valued
resources - ANSWER-Inequality
Match; The process by which people all over the planet become increasingly interconnected
economically, politically, culturally, and environmentally - ANSWER-Globalization
Match; The social and cultural mixture of different groups in society and the societal recognition of
difference as significant - ANSWER-Social Diversity
Match; A worldview whereby one judges other cultures by the standards of one's own culture and
regards one's own way of life as "normal" and better than others - ANSWER-Ethnocentrism
Which theoretical paradigm originated in the Chicago School, in the lectures of George Herbert Mead on
the importance of social engagements? - ANSWER-Symbolic interactionism
What contribution is sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois best known for? - ANSWER-Du Bois wrote about race
and racism in U. S. society
set with Questions and correct/verified
Answers
Ch 1 - ANSWER-Discovering Sociology
What is social imagination? - ANSWER-The ability to understand the connection between individual lives
and the social forces that shape them
Structure both enables and constrains ____, or a person's ability to enact small or large social changes -
ANSWER-Agency
Tina was just finishing her degree when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and jobs are now hard to come by.
What has constrained her job prospects? - ANSWER-Structure
26% of percent of U.S. adults believed that people tend to be poor because "they have not worked as
hard as other people." This statement reflects which of the following perspectives? - ANSWER-
Individualism
Match; the ability of individuals and groups to exercise free will and to make social changes on a small or
large scale - ANSWER-Agency
Match; the fundamental shaping of human behavior by social relations - ANSWER-Social Embeddedness
Match; patterned social arrangements that have effects on individuals' abilities to make social changes -
ANSWER-Structure
According to the social imagination, what is the distinction between troubles and issues? - ANSWER-
Troubles are personal, issues are public
The ____ is the ability to grasp the relationship between individual lives and the larger social forces that
shape them - ANSWER-Social Imagination
T or F. The social imagination is a methodological tool used for selecting samples - ANSWER-False
T or F. Structure may enable or constrain social action - ANSWER-True
T or F. Passion should not play a role in sociological research - ANSWER-False
What term best describes the ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence? -
ANSWER-Critical Thinking
T or F. Arab scholar in Ibn Khaldun wrote about social conflict and cohesion hundreds of years before
sociology became an academic discipline - ANSWER-True
Match; German theorist and revolutionary who studied political economy - ANSWER-Karl Marx
Match; French social theorist who applied positivism to the study of social life - ANSWER-Auguste Comte
Match; French theorist primarily interested in social facts and social solidarity - ANSWER-Emile Durkheim
Match; English sociologist who translated earlier writings of French philosophers making the ideas
accessible to the English-speaking world - ANSWER-Harriet Martineau
How long have people been studying the nature of social life? - ANSWER-for more than 2,000 years
According to Durkheim, what is the state of normlessness that occurs when people lose sight of the
shared rules and values that give order and meaning to their lives? - ANSWER-Anomie
, What term best describes formal organizations characterized by written rules, hierarchical authority, and
paid staff, intended to promote organizational efficiency? - ANSWER-Bureaucracies
Whose work strongly influenced social conflict theory? - ANSWER-Karl Marx
Structural functionalism characterizes society as made up of many independent parts that ____ -
ANSWER-work together to ensure the smooth working of society
Which theoretical perspective would study the wage gap by examining how workers experience and
interpret their work experiences? - ANSWER-Symbolic Interactionism
What are frameworks that help us interpret social life? - ANSWER-Sociological Theories
Which option seeks to explain social organization and change in terms of the competition that is built
into social relationships? - ANSWER-Social Conflict Paradigm
T or F. The symbolic interactionist paradigm argues that we can explain social organization and change in
terms of how each part functions to support the whole. - ANSWER-False. This definition is for structural
functionalism.
Match; Stratification benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor - ANSWER-Social conflict
paradigm
Match; Stratification plays out in our daily lives even in situations where it is not directly relavent -
ANSWER-Symbolic interactionism
Match; Stratification ensures social cohesion by the just distribution of awards - ANSWER-Structural
functionalism
T or F. Robert Merton identified 2 types of functions: Manifest and Latent - ANSWER-True.
Manifest functions are obvious and intended functions of a phenomena
Latent functions are not expect functions that occur
Structural functionalism and social conflict theory are- - ANSWER-Macrolevel paradigms
Symbolic interactionism - ANSWER-Microlevel paradigm
Today we are in the middle of a technological revolution called the ___ revolution - ANSWER-Information
Match; The ability to mobilize resources and achieve goals despite the resistance of others - ANSWER-
Power
Match; Differences in wealth, power, political voice, educational opportunities, and other valued
resources - ANSWER-Inequality
Match; The process by which people all over the planet become increasingly interconnected
economically, politically, culturally, and environmentally - ANSWER-Globalization
Match; The social and cultural mixture of different groups in society and the societal recognition of
difference as significant - ANSWER-Social Diversity
Match; A worldview whereby one judges other cultures by the standards of one's own culture and
regards one's own way of life as "normal" and better than others - ANSWER-Ethnocentrism
Which theoretical paradigm originated in the Chicago School, in the lectures of George Herbert Mead on
the importance of social engagements? - ANSWER-Symbolic interactionism
What contribution is sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois best known for? - ANSWER-Du Bois wrote about race
and racism in U. S. society
