Chapter 1: What is Sociology?
Key Terms


This section will test your knowledge of key terms from Chapter 1.


1.  

_________ is the body of knowledge produced by answering logical questions with evidence gathered through experimentation or systematic observation.

viewpoint
sociological imagination
science
theory


2.  

Sociologists develop explanations for the relationships between facts. This is called _________.

scientific method
theory
sociological imagination
science


3.  

The U.S. government is an example of _________ because it existed before we were born and will most likely continue to exist after we die.

social change
social structure
sociological imagination
social interaction


4.  

_________ stated that the U.S. had a set of core values that concerned human equality and the obligation of human justice, and that social strains result when people behave in ways that are contrary to their core values.

Karl Marx
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber
Harriet Martineau


5.  

_________, known as the father of Afro-American sociology, established a sociological research lab in Atlanta to research the Afro-American experience.

Robert Ezra Park
Albion Small
W.E.B. Dubois
Lester F. Ward


6.  

_________ founded Hull House, an institution designed to serve the needs of people living in some of Chicago's disorganized neighborhoods.

Jane Addams
Robert Ezra Park
Harriet Martineau
William Graham Sumner


7.  

_________ believed that capitalist society would eventually collapse due to struggles between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

Karl Marx
Albion Small
Max Weber
Emile Durkheim


8.  

Small societies have simple divisions of labor. As a result, people participate in the same social life and come to share the same values. These societies are held together by _________.

anomie
organic solidarity
alienated solidarity
mechanical solidarity


9.  

Unskilled manual laborers may experience _________ if they feel they have lost control over their lives.

mechanical solidarity
rationalization
alienation
anomie


10.  

During a revolution, norms in a society may be in conflict or entirely absent, causing the society to experience _________.

anomie
alienation
mechanical solidarity
organic solidarity


11.  

During the past two centuries, the U.S. has experienced _________, in that traditional thinking has been replaced with deliberate calculation, efficiency, and self-control.

anomie
organic solidarity
alienation
rationalization


12.  

The _________ perspective holds that parts of a social system work together to maintain the cohesion of the system.

conflict
functionalism
manifest functionalism
world systems


13.  

A _________ of schooling is that children are away from the home for seven hours each weekday.

latent function
dysfunction
manifest function
malfunction


14.  

Historical records, interviews, and participant observation are techniques used in _________ research.

statistical
qualitative
survey
quantitative


15.  

The Literary Digest survey of 1936 incorrectly predicted that Alfred Landon would defeat Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential Election because the survey was _________.

random
empirical
biased
controlled


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