Exam 1: The Sociological Perspective

Emile Durkheim provided the functionalist rationale for sociology by emphasizing social facts, which are human factors that explain human behavior.

A fundamental problem with the sociological perspective is

All of the following are conditions that Marx argued would happen when the working class developed class-consciousness EXCEPT

Explain what Peter Berger meant when he said that the sociological perspective involves a process of seeing through the facades of social structure.

At the societal level, sociology examines and explains pollution.

The __________is discomforting for many people because an understanding of society's constraints is liberating.

________ believed that positivism, which is the philosophy that knowledge should be based on systematic principles, experiments, and comparisons, could solve social problems.

Marx attributed to owners of capital the use of economic power to keep the less powerful in their place.

Experiments are used to understand the ________ relationship among variables.

Prevailing myths and stereotypes are contradicted by conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom and proverbs are used by sociologists as valid tools for explaining social behavior.

Social determinism is the assumption that human behavior is explained exclusively by social factors like the economy.

________ is believing in ideas that are not favorable to us but rather in the best interest of the capitalist class.

Making generalizations about human behavior based on personal experience illustrates a problem with using the scientific approach.

Marx argued that the working class will come to recognize their class interests, common oppression, and an understanding of who their oppressors are when they develop class consciousness.

All of the following support the assumption that groups are human-made EXCEPT

Discuss why our personal judgments and interpretations are inferior as sources of data upon which to base sociological analysis.

The experimental group in an experiment is a group of subjects not exposed to the independent variable.

The teen out-of-wedlock birthrate in the United States is much higher than the rate in countries where welfare payments for single teen mothers is much more generous.

The sociological perspective ignores the implication of accepting traditional sex roles as a natural social arrangement.