Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective and Research Process

Automobiles provide transportation and independence. But they are also responsible for a great deal of air pollution and contribute to global warming. Merton would consider these negative impacts to be __________.

All conflict theorists regard class conflict as the central and most important source of social change.

Which of these concepts is most comparable to the contemporary concept of the sociological imagination?

French sociologist Emile Durkheim coined the term __________ to refer to the patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside any one individual but that exert social control over every person in society.

Sociologist C. Wright Mills coined the term __________ for the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society.

__________is the study of social life in its natural setting: observing and interviewing people where they live, work, and play.

The basis for Durkheim's theory of society is the principle that _____________ .

__________ studied suicide in what was probably the first sociological study to use scientific research methods.

Researchers in one study examined the effects of church membership, divorce, and migration on suicide rates in the United States and concluded that suicide rates are typically higher where divorce and migration rates are higher and church membership is lower. This is an example of __________.

The first department of sociology in the United States was established at the University of Chicago, where the faculty was instrumental in starting the American Sociological Society (now known as the American Sociological Association).

Although Weber emphasized that sociology should be value free, he did not believe that human behavior could be analyzed through application of the objective criteria used to study other natural phenomena.

According to Mills, the sociological imagination enables one to distinguish between personal troubles that must be solved within the immediate social setting and __________ that affect large numbers of people and often require solutions at the societal level.

The American Sociological Association's Code of Ethics for conducting research includes which of the following?

A __________ of education in the United States is the perpetuation of gender, racial, and class inequalities, which contributes to a waste of potential talent and benefit for society.

Quantitative research and qualitative research both follow the same research model.

Define sociology and explain how it helps us to better understand our social world and ourselves.

The early sociologists were in agreement that human behavior could be studied using the same techniques used in the natural sciences.

Breanna believes Jarrod is upset with her because she interprets his tone of voice as angry. Although Jarrod states he is not angry, from a symbolic interactionist perspective it is Breanna's __________ of the situation that is most real or believable to her.

German sociologist Georg Simmel analyzed how social interactions vary depending on the __________. He concluded that interaction patterns differed between a dyad and a triad.

According to feminist theorists, we live in a(n) __________,  a system in which men dominate women and in which things that are considered to be "male" or "masculine" are more highly valued than those considered to be "female" or "feminine." Patriarchy