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Sociology 101 (Exam 1) fully solved graded A+
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Sociology 101 (Exam 1) fully solved graded A+
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Sociology 101 (Exam 1)C. Wright Mills - correct answer ✔✔coined the term "The sociological imagination" and allows us to
comprehend the change happening around us.
Sociological Imagination - correct answer ✔✔Ability to see the connection between the larger world and
our personal lives (C. Wright Mills)
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) - correct answer ✔✔"Father of Sociology" - invented what he called "social
physics" to understand the world. We could determine what is right and wrong without reference to
higher powers or other religious concepts.
Social Institution - correct answer ✔✔Any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior of the
groups of people within it
Theoretical Stage - correct answer ✔✔Society seemed to be the result of divine will
"It was God's plan
Metaphysical Stage - correct answer ✔✔human behavior governed by natural, biological instincts
Scientific Stage - correct answer ✔✔develop a social physics to understand human behavior
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) - correct answer ✔✔In 1853 she translated Auguste Comte's work from
French to English. *one of the earliest feminist social scientists
Karl Marx (1818-83) - correct answer ✔✔founder of "Marxism" the ideological alternative to capitalism
Max Weber (1864-1920) - correct answer ✔✔first to use sociological imagination. created Verstehen
("understanding"). To truly understand why people act the way they do, a sociologist must understand
the meanings people attach to their actions.
, Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) - correct answer ✔✔studied suicide and showed how individual acts are
conditioned by social forces.
Anomie - correct answer ✔✔too little social regulation; normlessness
Georg Simmel - correct answer ✔✔Established a sociology of numbers, how people conduct themselves
differently depending how many people are involved
Sociology "cousins" - correct answer ✔✔Psychology, anthropology, History, political science
Symbolic Interactionism - correct answer ✔✔A micro-level theory in which shared means and
assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions
Quantitative Methods - correct answer ✔✔uses statistical analysis to examine numerical data
(data that can be converted to numerical form)
Qualitative methods - correct answer ✔✔methods that attempt to collect information about the social
world that cannot be readily converted to numeric form.
Sociology - correct answer ✔✔The study of human society. The general goal of sociology is to allow us to
see how our individual lives are intimately related to the social forces that exist beyond us
Deductive approach - correct answer ✔✔a research approach that starts with a theory, forms a
hypothesis, makes empirical observations, and then analyzes the data to confirm, reject, or modify the
original theory
Inductive approach - correct answer ✔✔a research approach that starts with empirical observations and
then works to form a theory.
correlation or association - correct answer ✔✔simultaneous variation in two variables
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