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Test Bank For Sociology in Action 2nd Edition By Kathleen
Odell Korgen; Maxine P. Atkinson


Sociology - ANSWER:study of how individuals both shape and are shaped by society

Origin and Current Uses - ANSWER:understand and address social issues, industrial
revolution, and critical thinking and problem solving

Comte - ANSWER:coined the term sociology

The Sociological Eye - ANSWER:deeper meanings of
situations and patterns; awareness helps promote social change

Sociological Imagination - ANSWER:connect personal experience to patterns,
relationship between individuals and society, and need to understand both

Sociological Imagination: Fallacy of Individualistic Perspective - ANSWER:people
succeed or fail on their own, fails to account for environmental factors, and
opportunities not equal for all

Scientific Discipline - ANSWER:- Study how society works
- Follow scientific rules

Theoretical Perspectives - ANSWER:-ways of viewing the world
-make sense of social patterns

The Scientific Research Process - ANSWER:-collect and analyze data
-follow scientific rules
-be transparent

The Scientific Method - ANSWER:observation, theory, prediction, and evidence

Steortypes - ANSWER:-negative, predetermined ideas about groups
-justifies discriminatory treatment
-not based on evidence

Good Generalizations - ANSWER:-Based on research

-Describe, not judge

-Descriptions change with new data

Two Core Commitments - ANSWER:- use the sociological eye to observe social
patterns

, - take action to challenge those patterns

Social Patterns - ANSWER:- Notice and understand patterns

-Use patterns for personal advantages

-Influence social change

Assumptions - ANSWER:are ideas we feel have been established strongly enough
that we can assume they are always true. Therefore, we do not have to reprove
them each time we test a hypothesis

Bias - ANSWER:is prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group
compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair

Sociology and Democracy - ANSWER:-more informed voters
-real information versus fake news
-sociologically informed public necessary

Sociology and Careers - ANSWER:-sociological knowledge useful for careers
-understand people and social forces

Social Institution - ANSWER:are a set of patterned and relatively enduring strategies
for dealing with one or more important social needs

examples of social institutions - ANSWER:family, economics, religion, education, and
state

Paradigm - ANSWER:are theoretical frameworks through which scientists study the
world

Sociologist generally look at the world through one of the following paradigms: -
ANSWER:-conflict theory
-functionalism
-symbolic interactionism

Functionalism - ANSWER:is a macro paradigm

Functionalism - ANSWER:is a theoretical framework that defines society as a system
of interrelated parts

manifest functions - ANSWER:the recognized and intended consequences of any
social pattern

latent functions - ANSWER:unintended consequences of any social pattern

Herbert Spencer - ANSWER:who says society is an organism

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