Sociology Final

According to your notes Sociology is defined as

• The systematic study of human society and behavior

• The study of individual human thoughts and ideas

• The analysis of how norms function based on individual behavior and experiences not group behavior

• None of these

A social Norm is

• are never valuable to society

• are always valuable to society

• universal traits that all humans follow regardless of their culture

• traits we assume to be common social behavior that is socially enforced and expected

Socialization is

• the process Karl Marx used to convince people that Socialism was a superior economic theory

• explains how norms function across different cultures

• the process through which we learn how to operate in society

• how our psychology is changed by our cultural norms and values over time

What are the 2 goals of sociology

• Seeing the forest for the trees & Seeing the shortage in the excess

• Seeing the vague in the precise & Seeing the pattern in the familiar

• Seeing the general in the particular & Seeing the strange in the familiar

• remaining subjective & making judgments

The Bystander Effect is the idea that

• people in groups will offer assistance faster when others are present because they look heroic to their peers

• people in groups follow what the group is doing rather than act according to their own will

• People in groups self segregate based on social status people in groups will ignore or bully people who do not look like they belong to the group and make them feel like an outsider

• people in groups will standby and watch disaster happen together because it is interesting

The perspective of conflict theory is that

• society is a complex system with each part working together to promote stability and order

• Society is in conflict with the church

• society is a structured system based on inequality and social conflict between groups is the norm

• society is the product of everyday interactions and shared symbols and meanings

The perspective of symbolic interactionism is that

• society is a structured system based on inequality and social conflict between groups is the norm

• society is the basis for all human interaction

• society is the product of everyday interactions and shared symbols and meanings

• society is a complex system with each part working together to promote stability and order

The perspective of functionalism is that

• society is a complex system with each part working together to promote stability and order

• society is a structured system based on inequality and social conflict between groups is the norm

• society is the same cross culturally

• society is the product of everyday interactions and shared symbols and meanings

Values are defined as 

• The standard by which members of a culture define what is good or bad, desirable or undesirable

• The standards by which members of a culture define what is culturally acceptable social behavior

• Traits we universally agree are useless for society

• Traits that have no meaning or impact on society

______ is defined as the norms, symbols, language, beliefs, values, and artifacts that are part of any society.

• Culture

• Values

• Folkways

• Mores