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Sociology Chapter 1: What is Sociology?

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The social science that studies human society and social behavior

a)

Sociology

b)

Anthropology

c)

Psychology

d)

Political Science

2.

Disciplines that study human social behavior or institutions and the functions of human society in a scientific manner.

a)

Sociology

b)

Social Sciences

c)

Anthropology

d)

Psycology

3.

How people related to one another and influence each other's behavior.

a)

Sociology

b)

Social Science

c)

Social Interaction

d)

Social Phenomena

4.

Observable facts or events that involve human society

a)

Psychology

b)

Sociology

c)

Social Interaction

d)

Social Phenomena

5.

Looking at social life in a scientific, systematic way, rather than depending on common-sense explanations.

a)

Sociological perspective

b)

Sociological imagination

6.

The ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal lie.

a)

Sociological perspective

b)

Sociological imagination

7.

Considered to be the founder of Sociology

a)

Auguste Comte

b)

Herbert Spencer

c)

Karl Marx

d)

Emile Durkheim

8.

Founded Hull House in Chicago after visiting a London settlement house.

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Harriet Martineau

d)

Karl Marx

9.

This American Sociologist used community studies to underscore the significance of race in American Society.

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Karl Marx

d)

Max Weber

10.

Believed that scholars should try to improve society, not just study it. Spoke out in favor of women's rights, religious tolerance, and the end of slavery.

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Auguste Comte

d)

Harriet Martineau

11.

Which two sociologists works were ignored by their contemporaries?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Emile Durkheim

c)

W.E.B. Du Bois

d)

Max Weber

12.

A negative consequence an element has for the stability of the social system.

a)

Dysfunction

b)

Symbol

c)

Latent function

d)

Manifest function

13.

A perspective that outlines certain assumptions about the nature of social life.

a)

Functionalist perspective

b)

Conflict perspective

c)

Feminist perspective

d)

Theoretical perspective

14.

A theoretical perspective that involves viewing society as a system of gender inequality in which men dominate women.

a)

Functionalist perspective

b)

Conflict perspective

c)

Feminist perspective

d)

Theoretical perspective

15.

A theoretical perspective that focuses on those forces in society that promote competition and change.

a)

Functionalist perspective

b)

Conflict perspective

c)

Feminist perspective

d)

Theoretical perspective

16.

A theoretical perspective that views society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social system.

a)

Functionalist perspective

b)

Conflict perspective

c)

Feminist perspective

d)

Theoretical perspective

17.

A theoretical perspective that focuses on how individuals interact with one another in society.

a)

Functionalist perspective

b)

Interactionist perspective

c)

Feminist perspective

d)

Theoretical perspective

18.

A level of analysis that involves the study of large-scale systems or society as a whole.

a)

Macrosociology

b)

Microsociology

19.

The level of analysis that involves looking at small-scaled settings and everyday interaction among group members.

a)

Macrosociology

b)

Microsociology

20.

The development of economic, political, and social relationships that stretch worldwide.

(a)