Unit 1 Sociology

Sociological perspective is ________________________________.

• Response rate bias

• The difficulty one experiences in seeing oneself as others do

• A viewing of the behavior of groups in a systematic way

• Discrimination

"the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society"
Thinking away from one's usual day-to-day life and look at the world in a new way.  Is know as: 

• Sociological Perspective 
• Sociological Imagination 
• conflict perspective
• functionalist perspective

Focuses on the negative, conflicted, and ever-changing nature of society

• conflict perspective
• symbolic interactionist perspective
• functionalist perspective

States that society is held together by social consensus or cohesion, in which members of society agree to work for what is best for society.

• conflict perspective
• symbolic interactionist perspective
• functionalist perspective

Social scientists who study criminal behavior

• criminologist
• differential association
• stigma
• labeling theory

Finding the relationship between and individual's problems and how society as a whole is involved in that problem is:

• Bias
• Sociological Research
• Sociological imagination
• Guinea pig effect

Who would most likely say, "competition is at the heart of social relationships?"

• Emile Durkheim
• Herbert Spencer
• Max Weber
• Karl Marx

Who was the "father of sociology"?

• Max Weber
• Emile Durkehim
• Karl Marx
• August Comte

Modern thinker who preferred to study separate groups rather than society as a whole.

• Emile Durkehim
• Karl Marx
• August Comte
• Max Weber

In a divorce situation they focus on how each party tries to benefit (blame game, custody battles, divorce settlements)

• Functionalism

• Conflict

• Interactionism