Introduction to Sociology 2025

The founding father of sociology

• Pierre Bourdieu 
• Auguste Comte
• C.Wright Mills
• Emile Durkheim

What term refers to the systematic study of social behavior and social structure?

• Anthropology

• Human Geography

• Psychology

• Sociology

She was one of the first female sociologists and focused on the inequalities between the sexes.

• Jane Adams
• Emile Durkheim
• Harriet Martineau
• None of these

What is sociology?

• it studies Humans and everything they do.

• It studies humans and animals and human behaviour

• It studies of human society and human behaviour

• It studies everything

______ is the scientific study of human social behavior, and of society.

__________ focuses on politics and government.

• Political Science

• Anthropology

• Psychology

• Economics

Studies the choices people make regarding the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

• Psychology

• Economics

• History

• Anthropology

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Sociology developed during what time in Europe?

• 1700s

• 1800s

• 1900s

• 2000s

Which sociologist was the first to apply scientific methods to study society, and conducted the first true sociological study?

• Comte

• Weber

• Spencer

• Durkheim

Perspective advocated by Karl Marx:

• Structural functionalism

• Conflict theory

• Capitalism

• Symbolic interactionism