Sage Vantage Quiz Chapter 1 questions
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One thousand years ago, a person felt the Earth shake beneath his feet (what we would today call an
earthquake). Panicking, he was convinced that the gods must be angry. According to Auguste Comte, this
response indicates that he most likely lived in a society that was in which of the following stages? -
correct answer ✔✔theological
What keeps society operating smoothly? - correct answer ✔✔structural functionalism
Who benefits and who loses from the existing social order? - correct answer ✔✔social conflict
How do individuals experience themselves, one another, and society as a whole? - correct answer
✔✔symbolic interactionism
the ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence - correct answer ✔✔critical
thinking
Describes the confluence of social statuses that shape people's lives, access to resources and power,
justice, health, and well-being - correct answer ✔✔intersectionality
Representations of things that are not immediately present to our senses - correct answer ✔✔symbols
Created by Du Bois to describe an awareness of Black Americans as both Americans and Black, and never
free of racial stigma - correct answer ✔✔double consciousness
Sociologists need to be mindful of their underlying assumptions and biases: true or false? - correct
answer ✔✔true
,Describes the ability to mobilize resources and achieve goals despite the resistance of others - correct
answer ✔✔power
Social forces that a sociologist might examine to study unemployment? - correct answer ✔✔social
networks, race, ethnicity, and gender and sex
Criticism of Symbolic Interactionism - correct answer ✔✔while focusing on the microlevel processes in
society, it may miss the larger structural context of those processes
Emile Durkheim - correct answer ✔✔considered to be the first modern sociologist
sociological understanding would create a more modern egalitarian, peaceful society, in which
individuals would be free to realize their full potential
traditinal communities were held together by shared culture and norms
modern industrial communities were threatened by anomie
anomie - correct answer ✔✔a state of normlessness that occurs when people lose touch with the shared
rules and values that give order and meaning to their lives
Auguste Comte - correct answer ✔✔French social theorist is credited with founding modern sociology,
naming it, and establishing it as the scientific study of social relationships
social statics and social dynamics
believed that social science could be used effectively to manage the social change resulting from modern
industrial society, but always with a strong request for traditions and history
social statics - correct answer ✔✔way society is held together
social dynamics - correct answer ✔✔laws that govern social change
positivism - correct answer ✔✔an approach to research that is based on scientific evidence
, the sociological imagination recognizes the intersection between private troubles, such as a family's
poverty, and public issues, such as lack of access to education and employment: true or false? - correct
answer ✔✔true
Natalya is a sociologist who studies poverty. Her view is that poverty stems from the notion that there
are irreconcilable, competing interests between the wealthy and the poor and that the wealthy use their
power to maintain their own status, even at the expense of the poor. Given this, what type of
sociological theory is Natalya likely to follow? - correct answer ✔✔social conflict theory
deductive reasoning - correct answer ✔✔involves taking an existing theory and logically deducing if that
theory is accurate
inductive reasoning - correct answer ✔✔involves a process of generalizing from specific observations
Types of sampling that are generalizable? - correct answer ✔✔random and stratified sampling
both are probability samples, meaning that everyone in the population being studied has an equal
chance of being chosen to participate
negative correlation - correct answer ✔✔as one variable increases, the other decreases
positive correlation - correct answer ✔✔A correlation where as one variable increases, the other also
increases, or as one decreases so does the other. Both variables move in the same direction.
spending a lot of time in the library - correct answer ✔✔reviewing existing knowledge
asking if someone could get hurt - correct answer ✔✔weigh the ethical implications
figuring out what to ask - correct answer ✔✔frame your research question
deciding how to measure outcomes - correct answer ✔✔select the appropriate method
content analysis - correct answer ✔✔systematic examination of forms of documented communication
with complete solutions A+ rated
One thousand years ago, a person felt the Earth shake beneath his feet (what we would today call an
earthquake). Panicking, he was convinced that the gods must be angry. According to Auguste Comte, this
response indicates that he most likely lived in a society that was in which of the following stages? -
correct answer ✔✔theological
What keeps society operating smoothly? - correct answer ✔✔structural functionalism
Who benefits and who loses from the existing social order? - correct answer ✔✔social conflict
How do individuals experience themselves, one another, and society as a whole? - correct answer
✔✔symbolic interactionism
the ability to evaluate claims about truth by using reason and evidence - correct answer ✔✔critical
thinking
Describes the confluence of social statuses that shape people's lives, access to resources and power,
justice, health, and well-being - correct answer ✔✔intersectionality
Representations of things that are not immediately present to our senses - correct answer ✔✔symbols
Created by Du Bois to describe an awareness of Black Americans as both Americans and Black, and never
free of racial stigma - correct answer ✔✔double consciousness
Sociologists need to be mindful of their underlying assumptions and biases: true or false? - correct
answer ✔✔true
,Describes the ability to mobilize resources and achieve goals despite the resistance of others - correct
answer ✔✔power
Social forces that a sociologist might examine to study unemployment? - correct answer ✔✔social
networks, race, ethnicity, and gender and sex
Criticism of Symbolic Interactionism - correct answer ✔✔while focusing on the microlevel processes in
society, it may miss the larger structural context of those processes
Emile Durkheim - correct answer ✔✔considered to be the first modern sociologist
sociological understanding would create a more modern egalitarian, peaceful society, in which
individuals would be free to realize their full potential
traditinal communities were held together by shared culture and norms
modern industrial communities were threatened by anomie
anomie - correct answer ✔✔a state of normlessness that occurs when people lose touch with the shared
rules and values that give order and meaning to their lives
Auguste Comte - correct answer ✔✔French social theorist is credited with founding modern sociology,
naming it, and establishing it as the scientific study of social relationships
social statics and social dynamics
believed that social science could be used effectively to manage the social change resulting from modern
industrial society, but always with a strong request for traditions and history
social statics - correct answer ✔✔way society is held together
social dynamics - correct answer ✔✔laws that govern social change
positivism - correct answer ✔✔an approach to research that is based on scientific evidence
, the sociological imagination recognizes the intersection between private troubles, such as a family's
poverty, and public issues, such as lack of access to education and employment: true or false? - correct
answer ✔✔true
Natalya is a sociologist who studies poverty. Her view is that poverty stems from the notion that there
are irreconcilable, competing interests between the wealthy and the poor and that the wealthy use their
power to maintain their own status, even at the expense of the poor. Given this, what type of
sociological theory is Natalya likely to follow? - correct answer ✔✔social conflict theory
deductive reasoning - correct answer ✔✔involves taking an existing theory and logically deducing if that
theory is accurate
inductive reasoning - correct answer ✔✔involves a process of generalizing from specific observations
Types of sampling that are generalizable? - correct answer ✔✔random and stratified sampling
both are probability samples, meaning that everyone in the population being studied has an equal
chance of being chosen to participate
negative correlation - correct answer ✔✔as one variable increases, the other decreases
positive correlation - correct answer ✔✔A correlation where as one variable increases, the other also
increases, or as one decreases so does the other. Both variables move in the same direction.
spending a lot of time in the library - correct answer ✔✔reviewing existing knowledge
asking if someone could get hurt - correct answer ✔✔weigh the ethical implications
figuring out what to ask - correct answer ✔✔frame your research question
deciding how to measure outcomes - correct answer ✔✔select the appropriate method
content analysis - correct answer ✔✔systematic examination of forms of documented communication
