Intro to Sociology - Unit 1

What Sociologist believed that society is defined by a competition for resources and the resulting conflict?

• Harriet Martuneau

• Sigmund Freud

• Auguste Comte

• Karl Marx

Which approach looks at specific elements of a society & attempts to understand how these elements promote stability?

• Conflict

• Feminist

• Functionalist

• Interactionist

Which agent of Socialization has the largest impact on an individual in their lifetime?

• Family

• Media

• Peers

• School

Who is considered to be the founder of Sociology?

• Harriet Martineau

• Emile Durkheim

• Max Weber

• Auguste Comte

What term did Max Weber use to describe a sociological sense of empathy and understanding?

• Verstehen

• Anomie

• Argot

• Sociological Imagination

What term do Conflict Theorists use to describe the upper class/business owners?

• Proletariat

• Bourgeoisie

• Gemeinschaft

• Plebian

Mormons living in Utah can be described as being part of:

• mainstream society

• a counterculture

• a subculture

• the liberal media

The ability to examine another culture without judging it by your own culture. Term?

• Cultural Relativism

• Sociological Imagination

• Ethnocentrism

• Hawthorne Effect

Which of the following best describes a formalized norm?

• A societal expectation

• Commonly shared values

• A folkway

• A Law

Which term did Karl Marx use to refer to people who "owned the means of production"? Otherwise known as the "haves."

• Proletariat

• Bourgeoisie

• Plebian

• Verstehen