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LSU SOCL 2001 EXAM 1 (CHAPTERS 1 & 2)
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Q: Sociology
Ans: - The study of human society
- Assumes that human actions are *patterned* and can be explained partly by
social forces
Q: Sociological Imagination
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Ans: - Coined by *C. Wright Mills*
- The ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to
seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces
Q: Social institution
Ans: - A complex group of *interdependent* positions that, together, preform a
social role and reproduce themselves over time
- Networks or structures in society that work to socialize the groups of people
within them
Q: Social identity
Ans: - The way individuals define themselves in relationship to groups they are a
part of (or in relationship to groups they choose not to be a part of)
Q: Auguste Comte
Ans: - Recognized as the *father of sociology*
- Believed that society could be studied *scientifically*, called *social physics* or
*positivism*
- Famous works: *Positive Philosophy*
Q: Positivist sociology
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Ans: - A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described
and predicted by certain observable relationships
Q: Harriet Martineau
Ans: - One of the *earliest feminist social scientists*
- Translated Comte's work to English
- Took on the *institution of marriage*, claiming that is was based on the
assumption of inferiority of women
- Famous works: *How to Observe Morals and Manners, Theory and Practice of
Society in America*
Q: Karl Marx
Ans: - Theory of *historical materialism*, which identifies class conflict as the
primary cause of social change
- "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"
- Alternative to capitalism
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- Famous works: *The Communist Manifesto, Capital*
Q: Max Weber
Ans: - Emphasis on subjectivity became a foundation of interpretive sociology
- Humans act on the basis of their own understanding of the situation
- Developed *verstehen*
- Famous works: *Economy and Society*
Q: Verstehen
Ans: - Understanding the social behavior by putting oneself in the place of others
Q: Emile Durkheim
Ans: - Positivist sociology
- Developed theory that division of labor helps to determine how social cohesion
is maintained, or not maintained, in that society
- Coined term *anomie*
- Famous works: *The Division of Labor in Society, The Elementary forms of
Religious Life, Suicide*
Q: Anomie
Ans: - A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer
reasonably expect life to be predictable, normlessness
LSU SOCL 2001 EXAM 1 (CHAPTERS 1 & 2)
Questions and Answers 100% Correct Answers
Already Graded A+
Q: Sociology
Ans: - The study of human society
- Assumes that human actions are *patterned* and can be explained partly by
social forces
Q: Sociological Imagination
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Ans: - Coined by *C. Wright Mills*
- The ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to
seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces
Q: Social institution
Ans: - A complex group of *interdependent* positions that, together, preform a
social role and reproduce themselves over time
- Networks or structures in society that work to socialize the groups of people
within them
Q: Social identity
Ans: - The way individuals define themselves in relationship to groups they are a
part of (or in relationship to groups they choose not to be a part of)
Q: Auguste Comte
Ans: - Recognized as the *father of sociology*
- Believed that society could be studied *scientifically*, called *social physics* or
*positivism*
- Famous works: *Positive Philosophy*
Q: Positivist sociology
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Ans: - A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described
and predicted by certain observable relationships
Q: Harriet Martineau
Ans: - One of the *earliest feminist social scientists*
- Translated Comte's work to English
- Took on the *institution of marriage*, claiming that is was based on the
assumption of inferiority of women
- Famous works: *How to Observe Morals and Manners, Theory and Practice of
Society in America*
Q: Karl Marx
Ans: - Theory of *historical materialism*, which identifies class conflict as the
primary cause of social change
- "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"
- Alternative to capitalism
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- Famous works: *The Communist Manifesto, Capital*
Q: Max Weber
Ans: - Emphasis on subjectivity became a foundation of interpretive sociology
- Humans act on the basis of their own understanding of the situation
- Developed *verstehen*
- Famous works: *Economy and Society*
Q: Verstehen
Ans: - Understanding the social behavior by putting oneself in the place of others
Q: Emile Durkheim
Ans: - Positivist sociology
- Developed theory that division of labor helps to determine how social cohesion
is maintained, or not maintained, in that society
- Coined term *anomie*
- Famous works: *The Division of Labor in Society, The Elementary forms of
Religious Life, Suicide*
Q: Anomie
Ans: - A sense of aimlessness or despair that arises when we can no longer
reasonably expect life to be predictable, normlessness
