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Sociology Ch.1 Quiz

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Priya is conducting research on community traditions and believes that understanding people's personal experiences and perspectives is essential. She thinks social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they work to represent social processes. What is this view called?

a)

Conflict Theory

b)

Functionalism

c)

Positivism

d)

Antipositivism

2.

Which theory looks at society as a competition for limited resources?

a)

Symbolic Interactionism

b)

Constructivism

c)

Conflict Theory

d)

Functionalism

3.

What is the extension of symbolic interaction theory that proposes reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be?

a)

Constructivism

b)

Positivism

c)

Dramaturgical Analysis

d)

Antipositivism

4.

Nora moves to a new country and notices that people there have unique traditions, ways of greeting each other, and shared beliefs about what is important. What term describes these shared practices, values, and beliefs?

a)

Social Facts

b)

Social Institutions

c)

Culture

d)

Society

5.

At a school play, Abigail observes how students act differently on stage compared to how they behave backstage with their friends. Which technique do sociologists use to view society through the metaphor of theatrical performance?

a)

Dramaturgical Analysis

b)

Figuration

c)

Functionalism

d)

Constructivism

6.

What is a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly called?

a)

Dynamic Equilibrium

b)

Latent Functions

c)

Manifest Functions

d)

Social Solidarity

7.

What are social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society?

a)

Dysfunctions

b)

Latent Functions

c)

Functions

d)

Manifest Functions

8.

What is the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior?

a)

Functionalism

b)

Constructivism

c)

Dramaturgical Analysis

d)

Figuration

9.

What is the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity?

a)

Manifest Function

b)

Latent Function

c)

Dysfunction

d)

Function

10.

Which theoretical approach sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals?

a)

Functionalism

b)

Conflict Theory

c)

Constructivism

d)

Symbolic Interactionism

11.

What term describes the organized and generalized attitude of a social group?

a)

Generalized Others

b)

Social Institutions

c)

Significant Others

d)

Social Solidarity

12.

What is an attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and change?

a)

Hypothesis

b)

Grand Theories

c)

Paradigms

d)

Micro-level Theories

13.

When a new public park is built in a city, what are the unrecognized or unintended consequences of this social process?

a)

Latent Functions

b)

Manifest Functions

c)

Functions

d)

Dysfunctions

14.

Aria is conducting research to understand the recurring behaviors and trends within a large urban community. What is the scientific study of social patterns called?

a)

Constructivism

b)

Antipositivism

c)

Positivism

d)

Functionalism

15.

Ava is studying her family's history and realizes how her grandparents' experiences during major historical events shaped their lives. She also starts to see how her own life is influenced by broader societal structures and historical changes. What is the ability to understand how your own past relates to that of other people, as well as to history in general and societal structures in particular?

a)

Social Solidarity

b)

Reification

c)

Verstehen

d)

Sociological Imagination