CLEP INTRODUCTORY SOCIOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GUARANTEED PASS
Sociology - ANSWER - >study of social life and social
causes and consequences of human behave
basically- scientific study of society and human behave
Comte - ANSWER - >first founder
1700's
"need to use scientific method to study social world"
Karl Marx - ANSWER - >"class conflict is the root of
sociology"
-argued people should change society
-two distinct social classes
1) buorgeosie= own land and factories
2) proletariats= exploited workers ("will eventually revolt
to see change in society")
Durkheim - ANSWER - >Functionalism
-study and compared suicide rates
=protestant women and married individuals had a lower
risk WHY? more socially integrated into society
believed in solidarity (types)
,believed sociology was the study of groups and group
interactions from small to large
-microlevel= study of small grps and ind reactions
=macrolevel= study of trends among lg grps and societies
solidarity - ANSWER - >Any time you express support of a
group or the people in it, you're showing solidarity with
them. The word is used most often to describe a sense of
unity with a political group, a group of striking workers,
or people who have been deprived of their rights in some
way.
Culture - ANSWER - >Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a
specific group of people.
C. Wright Mills' Sociological Imagination - ANSWER - >the
ability to see the relationship between individual
experiences and the larger society
"awareness of relationship bettween a persons behav
and experience and the wider culture that shaped that
persons choices and perceptions"
Reification - ANSWER - >an error of treating an abstract
concept as though it has a real, material existence
,social facts - ANSWER - >the laws, morals, values,
religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the
cultural rules that govern social life
figuration - ANSWER - >The process of studying an
individual's behavior within the context of their culture
and society.
In order for an occupation to be considered a profession
by a sociologist, it must be an occupation that - ANSWER
- >is based on abstract knowledge and a body of
specialized info
What are the most important sources of knowledge? -
ANSWER - >empiricism and reason
Positivism - ANSWER - >philosophical system under
which knowledge of the world and human behav is
derive from scientific observation in search of universal
laws
AKA applying scientific method to the social world as
proposed by comte
, Sociological Theory - ANSWER - >a set of ideas that
explains a range of human behavior and a variety of
social and societal events
Functionalist Perspective - ANSWER - >A sociological
approach that emphasizes the way in which the parts of
a society are structured to maintain its stability.
"society of a system of interrelated parts"
=family, edu, relig, polit, and econ
-durkenheim = founder (all of these work together to
create balance and order)
"we need clear cut norms to govern our behav"
without? ANOMIE
-Merton
1 Manifest functions
2 Latent functions
3 dysfunctions
Manifest functions - ANSWER - >the recognized and
intended consequences of any social pattern
Example of manifest function - ANSWER - >the intended
beneficial consequences of the new deal
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GUARANTEED PASS
Sociology - ANSWER - >study of social life and social
causes and consequences of human behave
basically- scientific study of society and human behave
Comte - ANSWER - >first founder
1700's
"need to use scientific method to study social world"
Karl Marx - ANSWER - >"class conflict is the root of
sociology"
-argued people should change society
-two distinct social classes
1) buorgeosie= own land and factories
2) proletariats= exploited workers ("will eventually revolt
to see change in society")
Durkheim - ANSWER - >Functionalism
-study and compared suicide rates
=protestant women and married individuals had a lower
risk WHY? more socially integrated into society
believed in solidarity (types)
,believed sociology was the study of groups and group
interactions from small to large
-microlevel= study of small grps and ind reactions
=macrolevel= study of trends among lg grps and societies
solidarity - ANSWER - >Any time you express support of a
group or the people in it, you're showing solidarity with
them. The word is used most often to describe a sense of
unity with a political group, a group of striking workers,
or people who have been deprived of their rights in some
way.
Culture - ANSWER - >Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a
specific group of people.
C. Wright Mills' Sociological Imagination - ANSWER - >the
ability to see the relationship between individual
experiences and the larger society
"awareness of relationship bettween a persons behav
and experience and the wider culture that shaped that
persons choices and perceptions"
Reification - ANSWER - >an error of treating an abstract
concept as though it has a real, material existence
,social facts - ANSWER - >the laws, morals, values,
religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the
cultural rules that govern social life
figuration - ANSWER - >The process of studying an
individual's behavior within the context of their culture
and society.
In order for an occupation to be considered a profession
by a sociologist, it must be an occupation that - ANSWER
- >is based on abstract knowledge and a body of
specialized info
What are the most important sources of knowledge? -
ANSWER - >empiricism and reason
Positivism - ANSWER - >philosophical system under
which knowledge of the world and human behav is
derive from scientific observation in search of universal
laws
AKA applying scientific method to the social world as
proposed by comte
, Sociological Theory - ANSWER - >a set of ideas that
explains a range of human behavior and a variety of
social and societal events
Functionalist Perspective - ANSWER - >A sociological
approach that emphasizes the way in which the parts of
a society are structured to maintain its stability.
"society of a system of interrelated parts"
=family, edu, relig, polit, and econ
-durkenheim = founder (all of these work together to
create balance and order)
"we need clear cut norms to govern our behav"
without? ANOMIE
-Merton
1 Manifest functions
2 Latent functions
3 dysfunctions
Manifest functions - ANSWER - >the recognized and
intended consequences of any social pattern
Example of manifest function - ANSWER - >the intended
beneficial consequences of the new deal
