Unit #1 History of Sociology (basics)

Question 1

Studied the effects that industrialization and urbanization had on poverty. (Hull House)

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Jane Addams

Question 2

Emphasized role of conflict as a means for social change in society to balance the power.

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Karl Marx

Question 3

GENDER INEQUALITY has been perpetuated through Sociology, family, religion, and education.

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Feminist perspective

Question 4

How society is viewed by using the Functionalist and Conflict perspective theories.

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Macrosociology

Question 5

He was interested in society's effect on the individual and how small groups INTERACT.

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Max Weber

Question 6

Scholars role in society and emphasized women's rights, religious tolerance, end to slavery.

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Harriet Martineau

Question 7

Establish NAACP, and through his research found that RACE was an issue in need of addressing.

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W.E.B. Dubois

Question 8

The comparative study of past and present cultures is know as....

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Anthropology

Question 9

The theory that focuses on how individuals cooperate with one another.

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Interactionist perspective

Question 10

The study of common individual interactions with one another used by INTERACTIONISTS.

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Micro sociology

Question 11

How people relate to one another and influence each other's behavior is known as...

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Social interaction

Question 12

A negative consequence an element has for the stability of a social system.

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Dysfunction

Question 13

How you shape your environment and it in turn shapes you is a key concept known as...

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Sociological imagination

Question 14

The social science that studies human society and social behavior.

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Sociology

Question 15

The description involving essential characteristics of a feature of society.

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Ideal Type

Question 16

The social science that studies mental processes and behaviors of individuals is known as....

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Psychology

Question 17

The idea that a consensus of what most people agree is the best for society to run smoothly.

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Functionalist perspective

Question 18

The idea of putting yourself in someone else's shoes in viewing said situations.

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Verstehen

Question 19

The INTENDED purpose of an element of society.

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Manifest function

Question 20

Society served a specific 'FUNCTION' and we should focus on observable social phenomena.

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Emile Durkheim

Question 21

The theory that promotes CHANGE in society through forces of competition.

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Conflict perspective

Question 22

The century in which sociology was born was...

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1800's

Question 23

Analyzing the choices people make to satisfy their wants and needs in a world of scarcity is...

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Economics

Question 24

Individuals defining and interpreting the meaning of language being used when conversing.

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Symbolic interaction

Question 25

'Survival of the fittest' applied to society saying the best aspects of society would survive.

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Herbert Spencer

Question 26

The idea of viewing society from a worldly perspective.

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Globalization

Question 27

Observable facts or events that involve human society in known as...

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Social phenomenon

Question 28

Examining how government is organized and how it operates is known as....

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Political Science

Question 29

Disciplines that study human social behavior and institutions in a scientific manner.

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Social Sciences

Question 30

The UNINTENDED purpose for an element of society.

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Latent function

Question 31

The 'founder of sociology' he used physical sciences to explain social order and social change.

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Auguste Comte

Question 32

The field that studies the people and events from the past to make better decisions now is...

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History

Question 33

A general set of assumptions about the nature of things.

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Theoretical perspective

Question 34

Looking beyond 'common sense' explanations and looking at hidden meanings behind human actions.

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Sociological perspective

Unit #1 History of Sociology (basics)

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Unit #1 History of Sociology (basics)

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