Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective

Looking at Canada, high suicide rates are typical of people who

Briefly explain the difference between a macro-level and micro-level theoretical orientation.

The social-conflict approach draws attention to

If we state that children raised in single-parent families are at high risk of being single parents themselves, we have constructed a(n) _____ of family life.

The _____ approaches are macro-level, describing societies in broad terms.

Unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social pattern are called

In which of the countries noted below did sociology as a formal discipline appear first?

Racial discrimination in professional sports is evident today in

Which of the following is a manifest function of sports?

In deciding what kinds of questions to ask in their research, sociologists are guided by

What did C. Wright Mills mean by "the sociological imagination"? How does this point of view change the way we see personal problems?

According to Emile Durkheim, a category of people with a higher suicide rate typically has

W.E.B. Du Bois claimed that _____ was the major problem facing the United States during the twentieth century.

To evaluate a theory, sociologists

The basic idea of the symbolic-interaction approach is that society is

Following the thinking of C. Wright Mills, we would have expected the sociological imagination to be more widespread

Sociologists cannot identify "laws of society" that allow us to predict individual human behaviour

The last of Comte's "three stages" is the metaphysical stage in which people know the world in terms of God's will

Who, of the following would be most likely to ask "what factors give rise to social inequality"?

Which early U.S. sociologist studied the Black community and served as a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?