Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective

One criticism of social Darwinism is that it served to justify class,racial-ethnic,and gender inequalities.

Karl Marx believed that the working class would eventually become aware of its exploitation,overthrow the capitalists,and establish a free and classless society.

Many of us rely on knowledge gained from personal experience to help us understand our daily lives.What is the best term to describe this type of knowledge?

Which key thinker is associated with the feminist perspective?

Overspending is a public issue because people may accumulate credit cards and spend more than they can afford,thereby affecting all aspects of their lives.

According to Auguste Comte,what are forces for social order and stability referred to as?

Who defined power as the ability of a person in a social relationship to carry out his or her own will despite resistance from others?

Who argued that societies developed through a process of "struggle" for existence and "fitness" for survival,which suggested that only the fittest members of society would succeed?

Which of the following theorists advocated an evolutionary perspective on social order and change?

According to symbolic interactionism,what we consider to be "reality" is always shared.

Who distinguished between manifest and latent functions of social institutions?

According to Ralf Dahrendorf,power is the critical variable in explaining human behaviour.

What would a functionalist call the undesirable consequences of any element of a society?

A study that focused on nursing stations rather than the entire hospital would be what kind of analysis?

Richard sells his labour to the Small Shoe Factory.To which group does he belong?

What do sociologists call a set of logically interrelated statements that attempts to describe,explain,and (occasionally)predict social events?

What do feminist perspectives assume?

What was Auguste Comte's positivism based on?

Which perspectives are based on the assumption that society is a stable,orderly system?

In 2014,what was the approximate value of Canadian credit card debt?