Sociology 205 TAMU Test 1 2025/2026
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Society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Grouping of people, often by region or territory,
sharing a common characteristic
-language,laws,beliefs,traditions,values
Everyday Actor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Someone who approaches the world by
using knowledge that is practical or taken for granted (not scientific)
Social Analyst - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔someone who approaches the world by
using reasoning and questions to gain deeper insights
,Sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The systematic or scientific study of human
society and social behavior, from large-scale institutions and mass culture
to small groups and individual interactions
Microsociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the level of analysis that studies face-to-
face and small group interactions in order to understand how they affect the
larger patterns and structures of society
Symbolic Interactionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sees interaction and meaning as
central to society and assumes that meanings are not inherent but rather
are created through interaction
3 basic tenets of symbolic interactionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- act towards
things on the basis of their meanings
- meanings aren't inherent but are negotiated through interaction with
others (something can mean two different things to two different people)
- meanings can change or be modified via interaction
Conversation analysis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a sociological approach that looks
at how we create meaning in naturally occurring conversation, often by
taping conversations and examining them
, Pragmatism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a perspective that assumes organisms
(including humans) make practical adaptations to their environments;
humans do this through cognition, interpretation, and interaction
Macrosociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the level of analysis that studies large-
scale social structures in order to determine how they affect the lives of
groups and individuals
Theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔abstract propositions that explain the social
world and make predictions about the future
Paradigms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a set of assumptions, theories, and
perspectives that make up a way of understanding social reality
Social Sciences - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the disciplines that use the scientific
method to examine to social world
Roots of sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-influenced by philosophers,historians,
theologist
-influenced by European thinkers
_Ibn Khaldun--> the science of civilization
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Exam Questions and Correct Answers |
New Update
Society - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Grouping of people, often by region or territory,
sharing a common characteristic
-language,laws,beliefs,traditions,values
Everyday Actor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Someone who approaches the world by
using knowledge that is practical or taken for granted (not scientific)
Social Analyst - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔someone who approaches the world by
using reasoning and questions to gain deeper insights
,Sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The systematic or scientific study of human
society and social behavior, from large-scale institutions and mass culture
to small groups and individual interactions
Microsociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the level of analysis that studies face-to-
face and small group interactions in order to understand how they affect the
larger patterns and structures of society
Symbolic Interactionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sees interaction and meaning as
central to society and assumes that meanings are not inherent but rather
are created through interaction
3 basic tenets of symbolic interactionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- act towards
things on the basis of their meanings
- meanings aren't inherent but are negotiated through interaction with
others (something can mean two different things to two different people)
- meanings can change or be modified via interaction
Conversation analysis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a sociological approach that looks
at how we create meaning in naturally occurring conversation, often by
taping conversations and examining them
, Pragmatism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a perspective that assumes organisms
(including humans) make practical adaptations to their environments;
humans do this through cognition, interpretation, and interaction
Macrosociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the level of analysis that studies large-
scale social structures in order to determine how they affect the lives of
groups and individuals
Theories - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔abstract propositions that explain the social
world and make predictions about the future
Paradigms - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a set of assumptions, theories, and
perspectives that make up a way of understanding social reality
Social Sciences - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the disciplines that use the scientific
method to examine to social world
Roots of sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-influenced by philosophers,historians,
theologist
-influenced by European thinkers
_Ibn Khaldun--> the science of civilization
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