1-2 Sociology

DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each founding sociologist with the correct statement below.

• Emile Durkheim

• Social reformer and co-founder of Chicago's Hull House.

• W.E.B. Dubois

• Writer who believed that there is conflict between the bourgeoise and the proletariat.

• Karl Marx

• Sociologist who stressed the importance of consensus in society.

• Jane Addams

• Stressed that people behave based on their own understanding of a situation.

• Max Weber

• Social Activist who was involved in the Pan African Movement.

Karl Marx believed that class conflict was inevitable because

• latent functions are more common than manifest functions.

• social interdependence always leads to social unrest.

• Social Darwinism states that a classless society is the most stable type of society.

• workers will eventually overthrow capitalists just as enslaved persons overthrew their owners.

Jane Addams_________________

• A. was concerned about the exploitation of the lower class.

• B. believed everyone should find his or her social-class level without outside interference.

• C. was the first person to research the social structure of African American communities.

• D. is considered the founder of symbolic interactionism.

The theory that society benefits when each individual finds his or her own social-class level without outside interference is called

• group conformity

• class conflict

• group imagination

• Social Darwinism

Harriet Martineau is considered an early feminist theorist because she

• thought that conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie was inevitable.

• wrote about the link between slavery and the oppression of women.

• campaigned for equal pay for women.

• believed women were free to find their own social-class level.

Who was the social worker who studied the lives of people along the Mexican-American border?

• Charles Darwin

• Jane Addams

• George Herbert Mead

• Julian Samora