Sociology Unit 1 Intro to 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

Auguste Comte is credited as being the founder of __________.

• sociology

• economics

• modern science

• political science

The ability to see the relationship between events in their personal lives and events in their society (aka understanding your place in history) is called

• Positive Philosophy

• Sociological Imagination

• Historical Perspective

• Relationship Status

Who is known as a founder of Sociological Imagination?

• Augusta Comte

• Jane Addams

• C. Wright Mills

• WEB Dubois

True/False: Sociologists need to be able to focus multiple points of views to one single point of view.

• True

• False

Sociologists are constantly searching for:

• Conflicting Views

• Multiple Points of View

• The truth

• Patterns

______a way of saying that sociology tries to understand social behavior by placing it in its wider social context.

• Seeing the mistakes in human behavior

• Seeing the specifics in the general

• Seeing the general in the particular

• seeing the strange in the familiar.

________ is to approach the everyday world as though you were seeing it for the first time, as if you were from another world

• Seeing the specifics in the general

• Seeing the mistakes in human nature

• Seeing the general in the particular

•  seeing the strange in the familiar

According to Durkheim, why can't group settings be predicted based on personal characteristics?

• Common sense will override all group dynamics

• Individuals will break off from the group to create another group with their personal characteristics

• Personal characteristics will conflict with the group mentality causing conflict

• Groups form new characteristics that can react outside of personal characteristics

Choose all that apply:

The sociological perspective means:

• Seeing the specifics in the general

• Seeing the strange in the familiar

• Seeing the general in the particular

• Seeing the common sense in human nature