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Unit 1 Sociologists

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

WHO COINED THE TERM “SOCIOLOGY” FOR THIS FIELD OF STUDY?

a)

August Comte

b)

Max Weber

c)

Herbert Spencer

d)

Emile Durkheim

2.

DEVIANCE, AS EXPLAINED BY THE STRAIN THEORY, IS ATTACHED TO WHICH FUNCTIONALIST?

a)

Robert Merton

b)

Travis Hirschi

c)

Edwin Sutherland

d)

Edwin Lemert

3.

WHO WAS THE FIRST FEMALE SOCIOLOGIST.

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Harriet Martineau

c)

Max Weber

d)

Sharon Marks

4.

THE SOCIOLOGIST WHO APPLIED THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION TO HUMAN SOCIETIES.

a)

Howard Becker

b)

Travis Hirschi

c)

Karl Marx

d)

Herbert Spencer

5.

Attachment, Organization, Involvement and belief are the four ways this symbolic-interactionist believed we create social bonds with the community.

a)

Travis Hirschi

b)

Max Weber

c)

Edwin Lemert

d)

None of These

6.

The sociological imagination concept was introduced by

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Karl Marx

c)

C.W. Mills

d)

Lemert/Becker

7.

This functionalist believed that deviance served a purpose which he illustrated in four ways. One example is it affirms societal values.

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Richard Quinney

c)

Harriet Martineau

d)

August Comte

8.

German sociologist and pioneer of the micro analytic method in sociology. He also believed in the concept of verstehen-understanding the meaning of action through some else's eyes.

a)

Emile Durkheim

b)

Max Weber

c)

Travis Hirschi

d)

Richard Quinney

9.

A sociologist, categorized as a Conflict theorist, who believes that the ruling class defines deviant behavior as behavior that threatens their power base.

a)

Edwin Sutherland

b)

Edwin Lemert

c)

Richard Quinney

d)

Corina Clemenger

10.

THESE INTERACTIONISTS BELIEVED THAT ALL PEOPLE COMMIT DEVIANT ACTS, BUT NOT EVERYONE IS LABELED DEVIANT.

a)

Sykes/Matza

b)

Spencer/Durkheim

c)

Marx/Quinney

d)

Lemert/Becker

11.

Believing in the superiority of one's culture and judging from that perspective is

a)

Verstehen

b)

ideal type

c)

ethnocentrism

d)

cultural relativism

12.

THESE INTERACTIONISTS CONTRIBUTED THE TECHNIQUES OF NEUTRALIZATION THEORY.

a)

Sykes/Matza

b)

Lemert/Becker

c)

Hansel/Gretel

d)

Sutherland/Quinney

13.

Techniques of neutralization...

a)

are innovation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion.

b)

are labels given to subcultures.

c)

are ways people conform to societal folkways.

d)

are ways people justify their deviant acts.

14.

His major contributions include beginning the Conflict perspective in sociology.

a)

Max Weber

b)

Karl Marx

c)

August Comte

d)

Emile Durkheim

15.

The differential association theory was propsed by this symbolic interactionst.

a)

Edwin Lemert

b)

Edwin Sutherland

c)

Richard Quinney

d)

Max Weber

16.

Differential Association thoery states that

a)

people are born deviant.

b)

people are given labels to control their behavior.

c)

behavior is learned through social interaction.

d)

conforming is the only way to function in society.

17.

A key principle of the cultural transmission theory is that everyone ____.

a)

conforms

b)

is labeled

c)

has a master status

d)

fits the ideal type in society

18.

A person's language influences how they perceive the world is a basic definition for the _____ hypothesis.

a)

Thomas

b)

Sapir-Whorf

c)

Kabbalah

d)

Strain

19.

The degree of deviance that is often tolerated in a society according to the labeling theory is

a)

primary

b)

secondary

c)

tertiary

d)

All of these

20.

When deviance becomes a lifestyle and society treats you as an outsider it is called

a)

primary deviance

b)

secondary deviance

c)

tertiary deviance

d)

relative deviance

21.

Which type of norm holds greater significance in a society, so much so that if it is violated it might attach a stigma to you?

a)

folkway

b)

mores

22.

Which type of cohesion describes the social integration of members of a society who have common values and beliefs.

a)

Organic

b)

Mechanical

c)

Normal

d)

Ideal

23.

The practice of judging a culture by its own standards is

a)

culture leveling

b)

culture lag

c)

cultural relativism

d)

ethnocentrism

24.

Description of the essential characteristics of some aspect of society that all others can be measured against is called

a)

verstehen

b)

subculture

c)

culture universal

d)

ideal type

25.

Common features that are found in all human cultures such as food, or language are cultural _________

a)

lags

b)

universals

c)

leveling

d)

diffusion