General Sociology Exam 1 2025/2026
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Sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the study of human society
Sociological imagination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability to connect the most
basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and
remote historical forces
social institution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a complex group of interdependent
positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves
over time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that
works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within it.
,Verstehen - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔German for "understanding." The concept of
Verstehen comes from Max Weber and is the basis of interpretive
sociology in which researchers imagine themselves experiencing the life
positions of the social actors they want to understand rather than treating
those people as objects to be examined.
anomie - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a sense of aimlessness or despair that arises
when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable; too little
social regulation; normlessness
positivist sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a strain within sociology that believes
the social world can be described and predicted by certain describable
relationships (akin to a social physics)
double consciousness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a concept conceived by W.E.B. Du
Bois to describe the two behavioral scripts, one for moving through the
world and the other incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced
onlookers, which are constantly maintained by African Americans.
functionalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the theory that various social institutions
and processes in society exist to serve some important (or necessary)
function to keep society running
, conflict theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that conflict between competing
interests is the basic, animating force of social change and society in
general
symbolic interactionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a micro-level theory in which
shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations
behind people's actions
postmodernism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a condition characterized by a
questioning of the notion of progress and history, the replacement of
narrative within pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities
resulting from disjointed affiliations
social construction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an entity that exists because people
behave as if it exists and whose existence is perpetuated as people and
social institutions act in accordance with the widely agreed-upon formal
rules or informal norms of behavior associated with that entity
midrange theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a theory that attempts to predict how
certain social institutions tend to function
microsociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a branch of sociology that seeks to
understand local interactional contexts; its methods of choice are
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Exam Questions and Verified Answers |
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Sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the study of human society
Sociological imagination - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the ability to connect the most
basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and
remote historical forces
social institution - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a complex group of interdependent
positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves
over time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that
works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within it.
,Verstehen - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔German for "understanding." The concept of
Verstehen comes from Max Weber and is the basis of interpretive
sociology in which researchers imagine themselves experiencing the life
positions of the social actors they want to understand rather than treating
those people as objects to be examined.
anomie - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a sense of aimlessness or despair that arises
when we can no longer reasonably expect life to be predictable; too little
social regulation; normlessness
positivist sociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a strain within sociology that believes
the social world can be described and predicted by certain describable
relationships (akin to a social physics)
double consciousness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a concept conceived by W.E.B. Du
Bois to describe the two behavioral scripts, one for moving through the
world and the other incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced
onlookers, which are constantly maintained by African Americans.
functionalism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the theory that various social institutions
and processes in society exist to serve some important (or necessary)
function to keep society running
, conflict theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the idea that conflict between competing
interests is the basic, animating force of social change and society in
general
symbolic interactionism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a micro-level theory in which
shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations
behind people's actions
postmodernism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a condition characterized by a
questioning of the notion of progress and history, the replacement of
narrative within pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities
resulting from disjointed affiliations
social construction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔an entity that exists because people
behave as if it exists and whose existence is perpetuated as people and
social institutions act in accordance with the widely agreed-upon formal
rules or informal norms of behavior associated with that entity
midrange theory - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a theory that attempts to predict how
certain social institutions tend to function
microsociology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a branch of sociology that seeks to
understand local interactional contexts; its methods of choice are
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