Unit 1: Introduction to Sociology

We can better understand the how and why we make personal choices and decisions because of our ______ ______.

(a)  

(a)   is the way one acts or conducts themselves, especially towards other people.

____ believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production and greatly favored ____.

• Durkheim; Communism

• Max Weber; Positivism

• Karl Marx; Communism

• Comte; Antipositivism

Jeremy wrote an essay criticizing the college admissions process, arguing that heavy competition and limited educational resources make admission difficult for the average student. Which perspective would Jeremy’s argument fall under?

• Structural Functionalism

• Conflict Theory

• Symbolic Interactionism

• Behaviorism

A paradigm can be defined as:

• Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.

• The social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion

• The consequences of a social process that are sought or anticipated

• Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society

Sociological Imagination is the

• ability to see the connection between religion and politics

• ability to see the connection between amphibians and reptiles

• ability to see the connection between one street through another

• ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life

Studies individual human behavior, plus human mental and emotional processes.

• Sociology

• Political Science

• Economics

• Psychology

All societies are very similar and alike by how they are identified and classified.

• True

• False

According to Karl Marx, what defines the historical clash between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?

• sociological perspective

• class conflict

• latent functions

• verstehen

Each part of society works together for the benefit of the whole much like a living organism. This refers to 

• Conflict theory
• Symbolic interactionism
• Functionalism
• None of the above