Unit 1 pre-test 1
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- The sociological perspective
- helps one to look at their own world in a different light.
- Sociologists stress that a person's ideas and desires are
- highly influenced by their social groups.
- Sociology sees itself as
- the scientific study of society.
- Which of the following is a natural science
- physics
- Sociology views the development of generalizations
- as one of its' principle goals.
- Sociologists would consider
- all realms of human life to be legitimate avenues to explore.
- Sociology, as a science, emerged
- in the middle of the 1800s.
- Sociology grew out of what?
- grew out of social upheaval.
- Which founder of sociology would least consider himself a sociologist
- Karl Marx
- What group would Durkheim relate to having a higher rate of suicide than others
- Protestants
- Recent research on suicide shows that
- whites and African Americans commit suicide in similar ways.
- How did Max Weber view realigion?
- saw religion as a central force in social change.
- By applying notions of both social facts and Verstehen, sociological research has found that more Americans are born on ________ than any other day of the week
- Tuesday
- Sociology first took root in the United States at
- the University of Kansas and the University of Chicago.
- The department of sociology that dominated the early formation of sociology in the United States was at
- the University of Chicago.
- All of the following combine the role of sociologist with the role of social reformer EXCEPT
- Talcott Parsons.
- American sociology shifted away from an emphasis on social reform to that of the development and testing of social theory in the
- 1940s.
- A major difference between those who practice basic sociology and those who practice applied sociology is that
- a doctorate is not necessary in order to work as an applied sociologist
- A general statement of explanation of how two or more things are related to one another is
- a theory.
- To understand society, functionalists say that we need to look at
- both structure and function.
- The founder of conflict theory was
- Karl Marx.
- Karl Marx felt that the key to human history is understanding
- class struggle.
- The theoretical perspective that is usually associated with micro level analysis is
- symbolic interactionism.
- As of today, the unrivaled center of the discipline of sociology on a world scale is found in
- 4) the United States.