Sociology Unit A Test

Who is known as the "Father of Sociology"?

• Karl Marx
  

• Emile Durkheim

• Auguste Comte

• Max Weber

Karl Marx believed history is driven by:

• Religious faith

• Class struggles

• Bureaucracy

• Social facts

People with strong social ties are more likely to commit suicide.

• True

• False

W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness describes:

• Seeing yourself through your own eyes and society’s lens

• Acting differently online vs. in person

• Social integration through religion

• A case study on poverty

Which sociologist studied bureaucracy and emphasized verstehen (empathetic understanding)?

• Karl Marx

• Max Weber

• Emile Durkheim

• C. Wright Mills

The ability to connect personal troubles to larger social issues is called:

• Double consciousness

• Sociological imagination

• Verstehen

• Class conflict

Which perspective views society as a system where parts work together for stability?

• Functionalism

• Conflict theory

• Symbolic interactionism

• Rationalization

Which perspective is best for analyzing memes, handshakes, and school traditions?

• Rational choice

• Symbolic interactionism

• Conflict theory

• Functionalism

Quantitative research focuses on:

• Interviews and observations

• Words and descriptions

• Numbers and statistics

• Case studies only

Conflict theory argues that inequalities are:

• Necessary and helpful

• Random and meaningless

• Problematic and based on power struggles

• The result of natural order