Sociology introduction quiz

Who is considered the found father of Sociology?

• Auguste Comte

• Karl Marx

• Herbert Spencer

• Max Weber

Who said there would be a revolution by the people that would lead to a classless society?

• Herbert Spencer

• Karl Marx

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

Who said natural selection would ensure the survival of the fittest people in society?

• Harriet Martineau

• Max Weber

• Emile Durkheim

• Herbert Spencer

What is the scientific study of human society, it's interactions between people and institutions, in order to understand its development, structure, and functions in order to inform societies of ways to improve?

• Economics

• Psychology

• Sociology

• Government

Sociologists focus on the similarities and differences between cultures, among other things..

• True

• False

__________ is the materiial and non material, as well as, behaviors, beliefs and values.

• government

• economy

• culture

___________________ are commonalities that are shared in all cultures.

• cultural universals

• taboos

• cultural variations

What a group holds to be important, like freedom of the press and freedom to practice your own religion in the U.S., these are called the cultures ___________.

• laws

• values

• folkways

Subcultures challenge and seek to replace societites values with it's own, like the black panthers or the proud boys.

• true

• false

The spread of a cultural trait from its original location to another culture, like the U.S. culture becoming so influential on the Japanese in the 90's is cultural __________.

• relativism

• xenophobia

• diffusion