SOC 100 (PURDUE) EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
The study of human society - Answers Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious thought -
Answers Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - Answers sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social
structures. - Answers Sociological Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - Answers C. Wright Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce
themselves over time. - Answers Social Institution
Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - Answers Karl Marx, Max Weber, and
Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism." - Answers Auguste
Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English. - Answers Harriet
Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe Morals and Manners -
Answers Harriet Martineau
Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided the theoretical basis
for Communism. - Answers Karl Marx
elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical Materialism. - Answers Karl
Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social
change throughout history - Answers Historical Materialism, by Karl Marx
Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of modern capitalism -
Answers Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social class - Answers Max
Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism" - Answers Max Weber
, Suggests that sociologists approach social behavior from the perspective of those engaging in
it. In other words, a sociologist must understand the meanings people attach to their actions. -
Answers Verstehen, by Max Weber
Wished to understand how society holds together and how modern capitalism and
industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to one another. - Answers Émile
Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to sociology. - Answers
Émile Durkheim
Argument that one of the main social forces leading to suicide is a sense of normlessness
resulting from drastic changes in living conditions or arrangements.
, by ___ - Answers Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The Elementary Forms of
Religious Life - Answers Émile Durkheim
Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology - Answers Émile Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by
certain observable relationships. - Answers Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) - Answers Georg
Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - Answers formal sociology, by Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger, and the poor. -
Answers Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural sociology - Answers
Georg Simmel
Sociology characterized by empirical research primarily conducted throughout the city of
Chicago. Was best embodied by what came to be referred to as the Chicago School - Answers
American Sociology
Concept that humans' behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical
environments - Answers Social ecology
the basic premise of the Chicago School - Answers Social ecology
The theory of the "social self " emerged from the work of which social psychologists? - Answers
Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead
The study of human society - Answers Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious thought -
Answers Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - Answers sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social
structures. - Answers Sociological Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - Answers C. Wright Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce
themselves over time. - Answers Social Institution
Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - Answers Karl Marx, Max Weber, and
Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism." - Answers Auguste
Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English. - Answers Harriet
Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe Morals and Manners -
Answers Harriet Martineau
Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided the theoretical basis
for Communism. - Answers Karl Marx
elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical Materialism. - Answers Karl
Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social
change throughout history - Answers Historical Materialism, by Karl Marx
Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of modern capitalism -
Answers Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social class - Answers Max
Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The Protestant Ethic and the
Spirit of Capitalism" - Answers Max Weber
, Suggests that sociologists approach social behavior from the perspective of those engaging in
it. In other words, a sociologist must understand the meanings people attach to their actions. -
Answers Verstehen, by Max Weber
Wished to understand how society holds together and how modern capitalism and
industrialization have transformed the ways people relate to one another. - Answers Émile
Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to sociology. - Answers
Émile Durkheim
Argument that one of the main social forces leading to suicide is a sense of normlessness
resulting from drastic changes in living conditions or arrangements.
, by ___ - Answers Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The Elementary Forms of
Religious Life - Answers Émile Durkheim
Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology - Answers Émile Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by
certain observable relationships. - Answers Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) - Answers Georg
Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - Answers formal sociology, by Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger, and the poor. -
Answers Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural sociology - Answers
Georg Simmel
Sociology characterized by empirical research primarily conducted throughout the city of
Chicago. Was best embodied by what came to be referred to as the Chicago School - Answers
American Sociology
Concept that humans' behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical
environments - Answers Social ecology
the basic premise of the Chicago School - Answers Social ecology
The theory of the "social self " emerged from the work of which social psychologists? - Answers
Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead
