SOC 100 (PURDUE) EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The study of human society - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious thought -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social
structures. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sociological Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅C. Wright Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce
themselves over time. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social Institution
Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx, Max Weber,
and Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism." - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Auguste Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Harriet Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe Morals and Manners -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Harriet Martineau
Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided the theoretical basis for
Communism. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx
,elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical Materialism. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social change
throughout history - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Historical Materialism, by Karl Marx
Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of modern capitalism - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social class - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Max
Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism" - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Émile Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to sociology. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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 ___ - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Émile Durkheim
, Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Émile
Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by certain
observable relationships. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Georg
Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅formal sociology, by Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger, and the poor. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural sociology - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅American
Sociology
Concept that humans' behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical environments
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social ecology
the basic premise of the Chicago School - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social ecology
The theory of the "social self " emerged from the work of which social psychologists? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead
Best known for the concept of the "looking-glass self." - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Charles Horton Cooley
The study of human society - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sociology
Applying analytical tools to something you have always done without much conscious thought -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Thinking like a sociologist
Making the familiar strange - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅sociological imagination
the quality of mind that enables one to see the connection between personal troubles and social
structures. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sociological Imagination
Who "invented" the sociological imagination? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅C. Wright Mills
A complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce
themselves over time. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social Institution
Who are the founding fathers of sociological theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx, Max Weber,
and Émile Durkheim.
Some would say Georg Simmel too.
French scholar who invented what he called "social physics" or "positivism." - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Auguste Comte
An English social theorist who was the first to translate Comte into English. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Harriet Martineau
Wrote the Theory and Practice of Society in America and How to Observe Morals and Manners -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Harriet Martineau
Created Marxism (an ideological alternative to capitalism) which provided the theoretical basis for
Communism. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx
,elaborated a theory of what drives history, now called Historical Materialism. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx
Theory which believed that it was primarily the conflicts between classes that drove social change
throughout history - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Historical Materialism, by Karl Marx
Lived during the time of the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of modern capitalism - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Karl Marx
Criticized Karl Marx for his exclusive focus on the economy and social class - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Max
Weber
most famous for his two-volume work Economy and Society and "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism" - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Émile Durkheim
Wrote The Division of Labor in Society and contributed work on Suicide to sociology. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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 ___ - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Anomie, by Émile Durkheim
Wrote about the methods of social science as well as religion in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Émile Durkheim
, Often considered the founding practitioner of positivist sociology - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Émile
Durkheim
A strain within sociology that believes the social world can be described and predicted by certain
observable relationships. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Positivist Sociology
Established what we today refer to as formal sociology (pure numbers) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Georg
Simmel
A sociology of pure numbers, by ____ - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅formal sociology, by Georg Simmel
Provided formal definitions for small and large groups, a party, a stranger, and the poor. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Georg Simmel
His work was influential in the development of urban sociology and cultural sociology - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅American
Sociology
Concept that humans' behaviors and personalities are shaped by their social and physical environments
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social ecology
the basic premise of the Chicago School - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Social ecology
The theory of the "social self " emerged from the work of which social psychologists? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead
Best known for the concept of the "looking-glass self." - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Charles Horton Cooley
