Exam 3: Socialization

Tom works on the assembly line at the local Ford automobile factory. According to Marx, Tom would be considered a member of the __________because he does not own the means of production.

Automobiles provide transportation and independence. They also cause a great deal of air pollution and contribute to global warming. Merton would consider these negative impacts to be __________.

Sociologists are in agreement that sociological research can and should be value free.

__________refers to the fact that the lives of people everywhere are intertwined closely so that one nation's problems are part of a much larger global context.

Karl Marx and Max Weber were in agreement that __________was at least one source of inequality in society.

__________refers to the process by which an increasing number of people live in cities rather than rural areas.

Discuss the competing perspectives on social life-stability and social change. Explain each perspective and give an example of a theorist and how he or she contributed to that approach.

With __________research, the goal is scientific objectivity, and the focus is on data that can be measured numerically.

Which of these is not part of the sociological approach to the study of society and social interaction?

__________is the extent to which a study or research instrument accurately measures what it is supposed to measure.

Midori attends nursing school so that she can work in health care. Merton would consider this a __________function of Midori's education.

State the major assumptions of the conflict perspectives.

Marx termed the tools, land, factories, and money for investment that form the economic basis of a society the __________.

Durkheim believed that the limits of social behavior __________.

Which of these sociologists is not considered a founder of sociological study within the United States?

Durkheim used the term__________ for the condition in which social control becomes ineffective as a result of the loss of shared values and a sense of purpose in society.

A number of Europeans were important in establishing sociology. Discuss these figures in terms of their contributions.

Robert K. Merton defined a manifest function as one that __________ .

__________is a socially constructed concept used by many people to specify groups of people based on physical characteristics such as skin color.

During the__________ , massive social changes occurred as technological innovations shifted the economic base of countries in Europe, and later the United States, from agriculture to manufacturing.