Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective

The university that dominated sociology as an academic discipline when Albion Small headed the department was ________.

The sociological perspective emphasizes how the social context influences people's lives, particularly how people are influenced by ________.

The titles Karl Marx used to describe the two classes in society were the ________ and the ________.

What did C. Wright Mills mean by the term "power elite"?

Functionalists and conflict theorists tend to focus on the ________, or large scale patterns of society, in conducting their analyses.

According to Robert Merton, ________ are the intended beneficial consequences of people's actions.

Booker T. Washington was the first African American to earn a doctorate degree from Harvard University.