Sociology Final Exam Questions and
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Sociological imagination ✔✔C. Wright Mills- the ability to see the connection between the
larger world and your personal life
Conflict Perspective ✔✔people who employ this perspective focus on the forces in society that
promote competition and change.
Functionalist perspective ✔✔people who use this perspective view society as a set of interrelated
parts that work together to produce a stable social system.
Interactionist perspective ✔✔people who employ this perspective focus on how individuals
interact with one another in society; interested in the ways in which individuals respond to one
another in everyday situations.
Sociology ✔✔the social science that studies human society and social behavior of groups of
people, not individuals.
Psychology ✔✔the social science that deals with the behavior and thinking of organisms
, Social Darwinism ✔✔Herbert Spencer- applied Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" to
social change and unrest. He believed that only the fittest societies would survive over time,
leading to a general upgrading of society as a whole.
Functions ✔✔the consequence that an element of society produces for the maintenance of its
social systems.
Ideal types ✔✔a description comprised of the essential characteristics of a future of society.
Social sciences ✔✔related disciplines that study various aspects of human social behavior.
Emile Durkheim ✔✔Saw society as a set of independent parts that maintain the system
throughout time, and viewed these independent parts in terms of their functions. Also, he wrote a
book on how geographical area and events can trigger suicide.
Symbolic interaction ✔✔interaction between people that takes place through the use of symbols
Social Statistics ✔✔Auguste Comte- states that certain processes hold society together.
Answers Graded A+
Sociological imagination ✔✔C. Wright Mills- the ability to see the connection between the
larger world and your personal life
Conflict Perspective ✔✔people who employ this perspective focus on the forces in society that
promote competition and change.
Functionalist perspective ✔✔people who use this perspective view society as a set of interrelated
parts that work together to produce a stable social system.
Interactionist perspective ✔✔people who employ this perspective focus on how individuals
interact with one another in society; interested in the ways in which individuals respond to one
another in everyday situations.
Sociology ✔✔the social science that studies human society and social behavior of groups of
people, not individuals.
Psychology ✔✔the social science that deals with the behavior and thinking of organisms
, Social Darwinism ✔✔Herbert Spencer- applied Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest" to
social change and unrest. He believed that only the fittest societies would survive over time,
leading to a general upgrading of society as a whole.
Functions ✔✔the consequence that an element of society produces for the maintenance of its
social systems.
Ideal types ✔✔a description comprised of the essential characteristics of a future of society.
Social sciences ✔✔related disciplines that study various aspects of human social behavior.
Emile Durkheim ✔✔Saw society as a set of independent parts that maintain the system
throughout time, and viewed these independent parts in terms of their functions. Also, he wrote a
book on how geographical area and events can trigger suicide.
Symbolic interaction ✔✔interaction between people that takes place through the use of symbols
Social Statistics ✔✔Auguste Comte- states that certain processes hold society together.
