Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective

Like the gender-conflict approach, the race-conflict approach is concerned with social inequality.

Distinguish between the manifest and latent functions of any social pattern.

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.

Which of the following historical changes is among the factors that stimulated the development of sociology as a discipline?

Sociologists focus only on unusual patterns of behavior.

The sociological perspective reveals that people's lives are mostly a result of what they decide to do.

Explain how the structural-functional approach is more focused on understanding society as it is, and how the social conflict approach (consider the gender-conflict or race-conflict approaches) is more focused on social change.

In the United States, African Americans have a higher suicide rate than whites.

In the box about Barbara Ehrenreich working at low-wage jobs, we learned that she:

Which of the following questions is the focus of the symbolic-interaction approach?

Which of the following early sociologists had an important influence on the development of the social-conflict approach?

A criticism of the symbolic-interaction approach is that it:

The theoretical approach in sociology that assumes society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability is the:

According to Robert K. Merton, social patterns are always good, and have the same effect on all members of a society.

Because there is more social isolation in rural areas of the United States than in urban areas, we would expect suicide rates to be:

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

"Stacking" in sports is the pattern by which people of one racial category disproportionately play in favored positions.

Explain why the power of society is evident in the decision to bearing a child or even in the act of committing suicide.

Sarah is spending a summer living in another country where people have a way of life that differs from her own. A sociologist might expect that this experience would lead her to:

As a discipline, sociology first took root in France, Germany, and England.