Sociology Midterm Exam Chapters 1-

Sociology Midterm Exam (Chapters 1- 5) / Actual Questions & Verified Answers, / .Quiz____?Sociology - Answer✓✓ The scientific study of human social life, groups and societies.Quiz____?Social Facts - Answer✓✓ The aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals Quiz____?Organic solidarity - Answer✓✓ The social cohesion that results from the various parts of a society functioning as an integrated whole.Quiz____?Social constraint - Answer✓✓ The conditioning influence on our behavior of the groups and societies of which we are members Quiz____?Anomie - Page 1 of 31 1 / 4

Answer✓✓ referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior..... When an individual goes astray Quiz____?Materialist conception of history - Answer✓✓ develped by Karl Marx, according to which material or economic factors have a prime role in determining historical change.Quiz____?capitalism - Answer✓✓ An economic system based on private ownership of wealth, which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit.Quiz____?Social imagination - Answer✓✓ The application of imagnative thought to the asking and answering of sociological questions Quiz____?Structuration - Answer✓✓ The two way process by which we shape our social world through individual actions and by which we are reshaped by society Quiz____?Natural Science - Answer✓✓ Page 2 of 31 2 / 4

Study of physical features, nature and the ways they interact and change Quiz____?Social Science - Answer✓✓ The study of social features of humans and the ways they interact and change.Quiz____?Theory - Answer✓✓ set of statements that seek to explain problems, actions or behaviors.Quiz____?symbolic interactionism - Answer✓✓ (G.H Mead) emphasizes the role of symbols and language as core elements of all human interaction.Quiz____?Symbol - Answer✓✓ One item used to stand for or represent another.Quiz____?functionalism - Answer✓✓ the notion that social events can best be explained in terms of the functions they perform- that is the contributions they make to the community of a society.Page 3 of 31 3 / 4

Quiz____?manifest functions - Answer✓✓ the functions of a particular social activity that are known to and intended by the individuals involved in the activity Quiz____?latent functions - Answer✓✓ Functional consequences that are not intended or recognized by the members of a social system in which they occur Quiz____?Marxism - Answer✓✓ A body of thought deriving its main elements from Karl Marx's ideas Quiz____?ideology - Answer✓✓ system of ideas characteristic of a group or culture Quiz____?Feminist theory - Answer✓✓ A sociological perspective that emphasizes the centrality of gender in analyzing the social world and particularly the uniqueness of the experience of women. There are many strands of feminist theory, but they all share the desire to explain gender inequalities in society and to work to overcome them.Page 4 of 31

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