WorksheetsUnit 1: Introduction to Sociology
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
We can better understand the how and why we make personal choices and decisions because of our ______ ______.
(a)
(a) is the way one acts or conducts themselves, especially towards other people.
____ believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the struggles of different social classes over the means of production and greatly favored ____.
Durkheim; Communism
Max Weber; Positivism
Karl Marx; Communism
Comte; Antipositivism
Jeremy wrote an essay criticizing the college admissions process, arguing that heavy competition and limited educational resources make admission difficult for the average student. Which perspective would Jeremy’s argument fall under?
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Symbolic Interactionism
Behaviorism
A paradigm can be defined as:
Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.
The social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion
The consequences of a social process that are sought or anticipated
Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society
Sociological Imagination is the
ability to see the connection between religion and politics
ability to see the connection between amphibians and reptiles
ability to see the connection between one street through another
ability to see the connection between the larger world and your personal life
Studies individual human behavior, plus human mental and emotional processes.
Sociology
Political Science
Economics
Psychology
All societies are very similar and alike by how they are identified and classified.
True
False
According to Karl Marx, what defines the historical clash between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat?
sociological perspective
class conflict
latent functions
verstehen
After weeks of protest in Zuccotti Park, NYC’s “Occupy Wall Street” divided into two camps: one composed of higher income protestors, and one composed of lower-income protesters. A ______ would be most interested in the relationship and nature of day-to- day exchanges between the two groups
Structural functionalist
Conflict theorist
Symbolic interactionist
Feminist conflict theorist
What best describes sociology?
Study of life
Study of the human body
Study of society or societies
Study of philosophy
Which of the following men coined the term positivism, and is widely considered the father of sociology?
Auguste Comte
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Émile Durkheim
Any social group that a person belongs to is a ______.
Perspective
Nurture
Behavior
Society
Alona is examining the impact of the 2011 Penn State scandal on student morale and school spirit by distributing number-scaled surveys in her Introduction to Sociology class. Alona is employing a _____ research method.
Qualitative
Pathos
Logos
Quantitative
A hypothesis can be defined as:
A way to explain different aspects of social interactions
A testable proposition
An attempt to explain large-scale relationships
Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
