SOCIOLOGY 101 (EXAM 1)
QUESTIONS & VERIFIED COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS PASSED ALREADY
GRADED A+
coined the term "The sociological imagination" and allows us to comprehend the change
happening around us. - Correct Answer ✔✔ C. Wright Mills
Ability to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives (C. Wright
Mills) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Sociological Imagination
"Father of Sociology" - invented what he called "social physics" to understand the world.
We could determine what is right and wrong without reference to higher powers or other
religious concepts. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior of the groups of people
within it - Correct Answer ✔✔ Social Institution
Society seemed to be the result of divine will
"It was God's plan - Correct Answer ✔✔ Theoretical Stage
human behavior governed by natural, biological instincts - Correct Answer ✔✔
Metaphysical Stage
develop a social physics to understand human behavior - Correct Answer ✔✔ Scientific
Stage
In 1853 she translated Auguste Comte's work from French to English. *one of the
earliest feminist social scientists - Correct Answer ✔✔ Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
founder of "Marxism" the ideological alternative to capitalism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Karl
Marx (1818-83)
first to use sociological imagination. created Verstehen ("understanding"). To truly
understand why people act the way they do, a sociologist must understand the
meanings people attach to their actions. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Max Weber (1864-1920)
studied suicide and showed how individual acts are conditioned by social forces. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
too little social regulation; normlessness - Correct Answer ✔✔ Anomie
, Established a sociology of numbers, how people conduct themselves differently
depending how many people are involved - Correct Answer ✔✔ Georg Simmel
Psychology, anthropology, History, political science - Correct Answer ✔✔ Sociology
"cousins"
A micro-level theory in which shared means and assumptions form the basic
motivations behind people's actions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Symbolic Interactionism
uses statistical analysis to examine numerical data
(data that can be converted to numerical form) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Quantitative
Methods
methods that attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be readily
converted to numeric form. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Qualitative methods
The study of human society. The general goal of sociology is to allow us to see how our
individual lives are intimately related to the social forces that exist beyond us - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Sociology
a research approach that starts with a theory, forms a hypothesis, makes empirical
observations, and then analyzes the data to confirm, reject, or modify the original theory
- Correct Answer ✔✔ Deductive approach
a research approach that starts with empirical observations and then works to form a
theory. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Inductive approach
simultaneous variation in two variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ correlation or association
The notion that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Causality
A situation in which the researcher believes that A results in a change in B, but B in fact,
is causing A - Correct Answer ✔✔ Reverse Causality
The outcome you are trying to explain - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dependent Variable
Measures a variable that, if changed, you predict will be associated with changes in the
dependent variable. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Independent Variable
a proposed relationship between two variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ Hypothesis
the process of assigning a precise method for measuring a term being examined for use
in a particular study. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Operationalization
QUESTIONS & VERIFIED COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS PASSED ALREADY
GRADED A+
coined the term "The sociological imagination" and allows us to comprehend the change
happening around us. - Correct Answer ✔✔ C. Wright Mills
Ability to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives (C. Wright
Mills) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Sociological Imagination
"Father of Sociology" - invented what he called "social physics" to understand the world.
We could determine what is right and wrong without reference to higher powers or other
religious concepts. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
Any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior of the groups of people
within it - Correct Answer ✔✔ Social Institution
Society seemed to be the result of divine will
"It was God's plan - Correct Answer ✔✔ Theoretical Stage
human behavior governed by natural, biological instincts - Correct Answer ✔✔
Metaphysical Stage
develop a social physics to understand human behavior - Correct Answer ✔✔ Scientific
Stage
In 1853 she translated Auguste Comte's work from French to English. *one of the
earliest feminist social scientists - Correct Answer ✔✔ Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
founder of "Marxism" the ideological alternative to capitalism - Correct Answer ✔✔ Karl
Marx (1818-83)
first to use sociological imagination. created Verstehen ("understanding"). To truly
understand why people act the way they do, a sociologist must understand the
meanings people attach to their actions. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Max Weber (1864-1920)
studied suicide and showed how individual acts are conditioned by social forces. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)
too little social regulation; normlessness - Correct Answer ✔✔ Anomie
, Established a sociology of numbers, how people conduct themselves differently
depending how many people are involved - Correct Answer ✔✔ Georg Simmel
Psychology, anthropology, History, political science - Correct Answer ✔✔ Sociology
"cousins"
A micro-level theory in which shared means and assumptions form the basic
motivations behind people's actions - Correct Answer ✔✔ Symbolic Interactionism
uses statistical analysis to examine numerical data
(data that can be converted to numerical form) - Correct Answer ✔✔ Quantitative
Methods
methods that attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be readily
converted to numeric form. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Qualitative methods
The study of human society. The general goal of sociology is to allow us to see how our
individual lives are intimately related to the social forces that exist beyond us - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Sociology
a research approach that starts with a theory, forms a hypothesis, makes empirical
observations, and then analyzes the data to confirm, reject, or modify the original theory
- Correct Answer ✔✔ Deductive approach
a research approach that starts with empirical observations and then works to form a
theory. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Inductive approach
simultaneous variation in two variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ correlation or association
The notion that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Causality
A situation in which the researcher believes that A results in a change in B, but B in fact,
is causing A - Correct Answer ✔✔ Reverse Causality
The outcome you are trying to explain - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dependent Variable
Measures a variable that, if changed, you predict will be associated with changes in the
dependent variable. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Independent Variable
a proposed relationship between two variables - Correct Answer ✔✔ Hypothesis
the process of assigning a precise method for measuring a term being examined for use
in a particular study. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Operationalization
