SYG 2000 UCF EXAM 1 LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
Sociology - ANSWER: The study of society and human interaction with society
Sociology Seeks to understand - ANSWER: General human behavior, social
relationships and social institutions
Sociological Imagination - ANSWER: The ability to grasp the relationship between
individual lives and the larger social forces that shape them. Put things into
context, personal beliefs aside, be objective.
Agency - ANSWER: ability for an individual to exercise free will
Structure - ANSWER: patterned social arrangements that effect agency (ex: a
woman's place is in the home)
4 Interrelated historical developments in sociological thinking - ANSWER: Scientific
revolution, the enlightenment, industrial revolution, urbanization
Anomie - ANSWER: When you don't know the social norms and get
stressed/confused
Functionalism - ANSWER: How people should come together to avoid anomie
Auguste Comte - ANSWER: Coined the term "sociology" and created the idea of
positivism (knowledge gained from scientific fact and reasoning)
Harriet Martineau - ANSWER: First female sociologist, said we need to focus on
underrepresented groups to ensure social justice
Max Weber - ANSWER: Bureaucracies, first person to talk about capitalism
Karl Marx - ANSWER: Conflict, economic and political thinker, thought powerful
people should exploit less powerful for personal benefit and to keep power
Emile Durkheim - ANSWER: Pioneered methodology, ideas of suicide, looked at
mechanical and organic bonds
Mechanical Bonds - ANSWER: Bonds created because of similarity
Organic Bonds - ANSWER: Bonds based on specialization and independence
Robert Ezra Park - ANSWER: Pioneer of urban sociology, the chicago school
, WEB Dubois - ANSWER: African American male, talked about racial stigma, double
consciousness, aware that they are a different race but more aware that they are
americans
Robert Merton - ANSWER: First person to come up with theory of deviance, created
middle range theories
C. Wright Mills - ANSWER: Founded the Hull House and was the first to study
neighborhoods
Functionalism - ANSWER: Theory that everything in society has a function,
everything serves a purpose, if it doesn't serve a function it will go away
Durkheim - ANSWER: Talked about function of deviance, normal vs. abnormal
Parsons - ANSWER: First to focus on gender role differences
Conflict Theory - ANSWER: Asks who benefits? Who loses? What makes people
different that divides them?
Symbolic Interaction - ANSWER: Theory that everything that society has created is
based on social interactions with people
Scientific Method - ANSWER: A way of learning about the world that combines
legally constructed theory and systematic observation to provide explanation
Qualitative Research - ANSWER: Explanation of numerical data, includes interviews
and is more in depth research
Quantitative Research - ANSWER: Numerical data, less personal, less expensive
(surveys, numbers)
Operational Definition - ANSWER: Definition of a concept that allows it to be
measured. Created when you want to collect data, use it to measure something.
Validity - ANSWER: The degree to which concepts and their measurements
accurately represent what they claim to represent (hitting the bulls eye)
Reliability - ANSWER: The extent to which researchers findings are consistent with
different studies of the same thing or with the same study over time (hitting the
same spot every time)
Survey Research - ANSWER: Questionnaires or interviews administered to a group
of people in person or by telephone or email to determine their characteristics,
opinions and behaviors.
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