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Which social theorist focused on historical materialism and discussed capitalism as a
conflict between
capitalists and workers? - Karl Marx
Which social theorist addressed the importance of ideas, culture, and religion and wrote
a famous study
titled The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism? - Max Weber
Which social theorist looked at how society holds together, discussed anomie, and
wrote a famous study
titled Suicide? - Emile Durkheim
Which sociological theory is a micro-level theory that examines how shared meanings,
orientations, and
assumptions form the basic motivation behind people's actions? - Feminist theory
_____________ is a term coined by C.Wright Mills and refers to the ability to connect
the most basic, intimate
aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces. -
Sociological imagination
Which theory, developed by Erving Goffman, view social life as a theatrical performance
consisting of
props, scripts, performances and focuses on impression management? - Dramaturgical
theory
________ culture is everything that is part of our constructed environment, including
technology; whereas ______ culture consists of values, beliefs, behaviors, and social
norms. - Material; Nonmaterial
________ are methods that seek to obtain information about the social world that is
already in, or can be
converted to, numeric form. - Quantitative methods
____ are methods that attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot
be readily
converted to numeric form. - Qualitative Methods
The ___ variable (also known as the cause) is a measured fact that the researcher
believes has a causal
, impact on the ___ variable, or the outcome that the researcher is trying to explain (also
known as the effect). - Independent variable; Dependent variable
____ refers to the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and
norms of a given
society and learn to function as a member of that society. - Socialization
What are the agents of socialization? - Media, School, Family and Peers
Sally is a college student and employee at Starbucks. The night before an exam, Sally's
boss asks her
to work late. Sally is likely to experience ____ due to contradictions of her different roles
associated with
being a student and an employee. - Role Conflict
____ refers to the belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the
tendency to view
all other cultures from the perspective of one's own. - Ethnocentrism
____ denotes a social position, the set of social arrangements that are built around
____, the natural
or biological differences that distinguish males from females. - Gender; Sex
____ refers to a line of thought that explains social phenomena in terms of natural ones
and often
includes lack of history, absolutism, and rigidity. - Essentialism
___ refers to a consciousness-raising movement based on the idea that women and
men should be
accorded equal opportunities and a chief goal of getting people to understand that
gender is an organizing principle of life. - Feminism
Which theory of gender inequality examines how gender is a process in which people
participate with
every social interaction they have, focusing on how in "doing gender" people contribute
to, reaffirm, and
reproduce gender inequality? - Symbolic interactionalism
The sociological approach to the social construction of _____ examines variation in
what is considered "normal" sexual behavior and different patterns through history and
across cultures. - Sexuality
___ refers to an invisible lid on women's climb up the employment ladder; whereas ___
refers to the
promotional ride men take to the top of a work organization, especially in feminized
jobs. - Glass ceiling; Glass escalator
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