foundations of sociology

A group of people who share a culture and a territory is known as a(n) __________.

• global group

• extended family group

• society

• global village

__________ is the study of society and human behavior.

• Natural science

• Science

• Psychology

• Sociology

The first goal of science involves __________.

• contradicting previous research

• trying to make sense of something

• proving why “common sense” is right

• sticking with the individual case rather than the broader group or situation

The __________, according to Marx, were the workers who were oppressed by those who owned the means of production.

• capitalists

• communists

• proletariat

• fascists

According to Max Weber, the key factor in society is __________.

• economics

• politics

• religion

• tradition

In the eyes of __________, society consists of connected parts working together as a whole.

• symbolic interactionists

• conflict theorists

• functionalists

• George Herbert Mead

Who was the founder of conflict theory?

• Robert Merton

• George Herbert Mead

• Max Weber

• Karl Marx

sociologist that believed in order to comprehend behavior, one must learn subjective meaning people attach to actions

• Jane Adams

• Auguste Comte

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

sociologist that coined the term "class" in which people are organized in social ranks; key to the development of communist thought

• Karl Marx

• Auguste Comte

• Julian Samora

• W.E.B. DuBois

study of the evolution, development, and functioning of human society

• agrarian society

• pastoral society

• sociology

• society