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WorksheetsSociology Unit 1 Assessment
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
This sociologist is considered to be the founder of the conflict perspective of sociology.
Karl Marx
WEB DuBois
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber
Considered to be the founder of the Functionalist perspective of sociology.
Karl Marx
Auguste Comte
Harriett Martineau
Emile Durkheim
Considered to be the founder of the symbolic perspective of sociology.
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber
WEB DuBois
Karl Marx
Research method where researches try to find connections between quantitative data.
Statistical Analysis
Existing Source Analysis
Macrosociology
Microsociology
Sociological method that looks at society as a whole
Microsociology
Macrosociology
Sociological method that examines society on a smaller, or individual scale.
Microsociology
Macrosociology
What was the major contribution of the sociologist Herbert Spencer?
Opened up the field of Sociology to the applications of the Women’s Rights Movement.
Applied the principles of Evolutionary sociology to study the development of animals over time.
Applied to principles of Charles Darwin to come up with his theory of “Social Darwinism”
Which Sociological Research method is most likely to have the data skewed by having the researcher’s opinions interfered with by getting to know the subjects?
Survey
Existing Source Analysis
Non-Participant Observation
Participant Observation
What is NOT a reason why sociologists should do a Existing Source Analysis before beginning a study?
To write down the findings of another researcher so they can make them seem like their own.
To try to repeat the study to see if they can obtain a different result.
Make sure the study has not been done before.
Which Sociological Perspective would most agree with the statement that “Sociology should be used to improve the living conditions of individuals?”
Functional Perspective
Chicago Perspective
Conflict Perspective
Interactionist Perspective
Which Research Method is most reliant on the sociologist forming a controlled environment to see how a participant reacts?
Experiment
Survey
Existing Source Analysis
Which Sociologist is seen to be the “father” of the field of Sociology?
Auguste Comte
Harriett Martineau
Max Weber
Lebron James
Which of the following things would a Macro-Sociologist be least interested in studying?
The role of schools in bringing up children within a society.
Racial tensions variations in different parts of a country.
Religion’s influence on unification of a country.
The personal habits of an individual.
Which of the following is NOT a qualitative form of data?
A survey question that asks participants to write their biggest fears.
The number of participants who answered yes to the question “Should children be valued as part of a society?”
A participant who answer that rain makes them “calm” on a survey.
Which Sociologist would argue that forcing students to take a test structured to find out how well they learned materials from a national standardized curriculum, is just another way of forcing the people to conform to the government’s agenda and keep them from realizing that they are playing into the government’s hands instead of rising up and creating a paradise for the working class like they should be doing. Vive la revolution! (Purely theoretical, I am no way condoning the overthrow of the government!) :) :)
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Emile Durkheim
WEB Dubois
Observation style where participants most likely do not even know they are being observed.
Participant
Naturalistic
Structured
Jane Addams
was concerned about the exploitation of the lower class
believed everyone should find his or her social-class level without outside interference
was the first person to research the social structure of African American communities
_______________ emphasizes the contributions of each part of society and how these parts work together to create a unified whole.
Symbolic interactionism
Functionalism
The conflict perspective
Positivism
__________ emphasize that people can communicate because they share words, gestures, and physical objects that have similar meanings to all of them
Functionalists
Positivists
Conflict theorists
Symbolic interactionists
research can be divided into two broad categories:
surveys and questionnaires
quantitative and qualitative
populations and samples
case studies and interviews
