Intro to Sociology

What is sociology?

• it studies Humans and everything they do.

• It studies humans and animals and human behavior

• It studies human society and human behavior

• It studies everything at Sunset

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

• global group

• society

• extended family group

• global village

This theory views society as a system of groups that are not equal and this inequality generates change.

• Feminism Theory
• Structural-Functional Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism Theory
• Social Conflict Theory

Sociology is a study of

• prehistoric societies
• fossil record of human evolution
• the ways that people are affected by and affect society
• All of the above

The ability to see the link between society and self

• Sociology

• Sociological immunity

• Sociological Imagination

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

What is sociological perspective?

• ability to see connection between larger world and our personal lives
• understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context

Looking at social life in a scientific, systematic way, rather than depending on common-sense explanations.

• Sociological perspective

• Sociological imagination

Sociologists tend to focus on individual rather than group behavior.

• True
• False

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 major sociological perspectives?

• Functionalism

• Interest Protectionism

• Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism