SOCIOLOGY UNIT 1: "The Sociological Point of View" Review

Empathetic understanding of the meanings others attach to their actions is called _____.

• Verstehen
• symbol
• dysfunction
• Ideal Type

Societies use lots of symbols as meaningful representations of who they are collectively.

• Functionism
• Conflict
• Symbolic Interactionism

Different groups compete to achieve their own interests rather than cooperate to benefit all.

• Functionalism
• Conflict
• Symbolic Interactionism

In parts of the world, whistling during a performance means disapproval; in America whistling in good and booing is disapproval.

• Functionalism
• Conflict
• Symbolic Interactionism

The scientific study of social structure; patterned social behavior

• Sociology
• Assumption
• Conformity
• Perspective

Who coined the term “survival of the fittest”?

• Darwim
• Hobbes
• Freud
• Spencer

Karl Marx proposed that society would be better if all classes would rise up and fight until there was only one class of people. This is ____theory.

• Conflict
• Functionalist
• Structuralist
• Interactionist

The scientific study of social structure; patterned social behavior

• Sociology
• Assumption
• Conformity
• Perspective

What is sociology?

• The scientific study of soccer players.
• The scientific study of human social behavior.
• The scientific study of urban gangs and violence.
• The acceptance of conventional social wisdom.

Having a _________ refers to a person's ability to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives.

• conflict perspective
• social interaction
• symbolic interaction
• sociological imagination