Sociology Ch. 1

Conflict theory:

• began with Durkheim when conducting fieldwork
• sees society as system of highly interrelated parts that work together harmoniously
• focuses heavily on inequality
• focuses on the interaction among people

Each part of society works together for the benefit of the whole much like a living organism. This refers to 

• Conflict theory
• Symbolic interactionism
• Functionalism
• None of the above

Sociological imagination enables us to

• challenge stereotypes
• see how wider social forces connect with our personal biographies
• challenges our basic impulses to see aspects of life as inevitable or natural
• All of the above

Who coined the term "sociological imagination"?

• Pierre Bourdieu  
• Auguste Comte
• C. Wright Mills 
• Henri de Saint-Simon

The founding father of sociology

• Pierre Bourdieu 
• Auguste Comte
• C.Wright Mills
• Emile Durkheim

Functionalists and conflict theorists tend to focus on the ________, or large scale patterns of society, in conducting their analyses.

• interactionist level
• micro level
• symbolic level
• macro level

 The first person to propose that the scientific method could be applied to the study of social life was ________.

• Emile Durkheim
• Max Weber
• Karl Marx
• Auguste Comte

Karl Marx suggested that the force that drives human history and is at the core of human society is ________.

• class conflict
• religion
• education
• family

According to the principles of symbolic interactionism, symbols not only allow relationships to exist, they also allow society to exist.

• True
• False

The sociologist who developed the concept of the power elite was ________.

• C. W. Mills
• Talcott Parsons
• Robert Merton
• F. Ivan Nye