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Sociology Final Exam QUESTIONS WITHCOMPLETE SOLUTIONS| VERIFIED
Sociological imagination Correct Answer: C. Wright Mills- the ability to see the
connection between the larger world and your personal life
Conflict Perspective Correct Answer: people who employ this perspective focus
on the forces in society that promote competition and change.
Functionalist perspective Correct Answer: people who use this perspective view
society as a set of interrelated parts that work together to produce a stable social
system.
Interactionist perspective Correct Answer: people who employ this perspective
focus on how individuals interact with one another in society; interested in the
ways in which individuals respond to one another in everyday situations.
Sociology Correct Answer: the social science that studies human society and
social behavior of groups of people, not individuals.
Psychology Correct Answer: the social science that deals with the behavior and
thinking of organisms
Social Darwinism Correct Answer: Herbert Spencer- applied Darwin's theory of
"survival of the fittest" to social change and unrest. He believed that only the fittest
societies would survive over time, leading to a general upgrading of society as a
whole.
Functions Correct Answer: the consequence that an element of society produces
for the maintenance of its social systems.
Ideal types Correct Answer: a description comprised of the essential
characteristics of a future of society.
Social sciences Correct Answer: related disciplines that study various aspects of
human social behavior.
, Emile Durkheim Correct Answer: Saw society as a set of independent parts that
maintain the system throughout time, and viewed these independent parts in terms
of their functions. Also, he wrote a book on how geographical area and events can
trigger suicide.
Symbolic interaction Correct Answer: interaction between people that takes place
through the use of symbols
Social Statistics Correct Answer: Auguste Comte- states that certain processes
hold society together.
Social psychology Correct Answer: study of how an individual's behavior and
personality are affected by the social enviornment
Social phenomena Correct Answer: study of how an individuals behavior and
personality are affected by the social environment
Theoretical perspective Correct Answer: a general set of assumptions about the
nature of things
Manifest functions Correct Answer: the intended and recognized consequence of
some element of society.
Sociological perspective Correct Answer: the viewing of the behavior of a group
in a systematic way.
Cultural relativism Correct Answer: belief that cultures should be judged by their
own standards
Material culture Correct Answer: the physical objects that people create and use
Ethnocentrism Correct Answer: tendency to view one's own culture or group as
superior to all other cultures and groups
Margaret Med Correct Answer: conducted a now-class study of cultural
variations. The purpose was to determine whether differences in basic
temperament (fundamental emotional dispersion of a person) result mainly from
inherited characteristics or from cultural influences.
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