Sociology Exam Paper
1. sociology the study of human society
2. Who argued that in the effort to think critically about the social world around us, we need to use our sociological imagination to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history?
C. Wright Mills
3. sociological imagination the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces
4. social institution a complex group of interdependent positions that perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within it
5. Who invented what he called …show more content…
Comte's stage in which society seemed to be the result of devine will theological stage
8. Comte's stage in which scholars might consult the Bible or other ecclesiastical texts theological stage
9. Comte's stage in which Enlightenment thinkers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hobbes saw humankind's behavior as governed by natural, biological instincts metaphysical stage
10. Comte's stage in which to understand the nature of society, we needed to strip away the layers of society to better comprehend how our basic drives and natural instincts governed and established the foundation for the surrounding world metaphysical stage
11. Comte's stage in which we would develop a social physics of sorts in order to indentify the scientific laws that govern human behavior scientific stage
12. Who was the first to translate Comte into English?
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
13. works of Harriet Martineau * Theory and Practice of Society in America (1837) * How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838)
14. Who is considered one of the earliest feminist social scientists writing in the English language?
Harriet Martineau
15. founding fathers of the sociological …show more content…
Ann Oakley * Sex, Gender, and Society (1972) * argued that much of what we attribute to biological sex differences can be traced to behaviors that are learned and internalized through socialization
45. focuses on big theories of society macrosociology 46. focuses on how face-to-face interactions create the social world microsociology 47. postmodernism a condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progess and history, the replacement of narrative within pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed affiliations
48. social constitutions an entity that exists because people behave as if it exists and whose existence is perpetuated as people and social institutions act in accordance with the widely agreed upon formal rules or informal norms of behavior associated with that entity
49. midrange theory a theory that attempts to predict how certain social institutions tend to function
50. microsociology seeks to understand local interactional contexts; its methods of choise are ethnographic, generally including participant observation and in-depth
2. Who argued that in the effort to think critically about the social world around us, we need to use our sociological imagination to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history?
C. Wright Mills
3. sociological imagination the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces
4. social institution a complex group of interdependent positions that perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time; also defined in a narrow sense as any institution in a society that works to shape the behavior of the groups or people within it
5. Who invented what he called …show more content…
Comte's stage in which society seemed to be the result of devine will theological stage
8. Comte's stage in which scholars might consult the Bible or other ecclesiastical texts theological stage
9. Comte's stage in which Enlightenment thinkers such as Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hobbes saw humankind's behavior as governed by natural, biological instincts metaphysical stage
10. Comte's stage in which to understand the nature of society, we needed to strip away the layers of society to better comprehend how our basic drives and natural instincts governed and established the foundation for the surrounding world metaphysical stage
11. Comte's stage in which we would develop a social physics of sorts in order to indentify the scientific laws that govern human behavior scientific stage
12. Who was the first to translate Comte into English?
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
13. works of Harriet Martineau * Theory and Practice of Society in America (1837) * How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838)
14. Who is considered one of the earliest feminist social scientists writing in the English language?
Harriet Martineau
15. founding fathers of the sociological …show more content…
Ann Oakley * Sex, Gender, and Society (1972) * argued that much of what we attribute to biological sex differences can be traced to behaviors that are learned and internalized through socialization
45. focuses on big theories of society macrosociology 46. focuses on how face-to-face interactions create the social world microsociology 47. postmodernism a condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progess and history, the replacement of narrative within pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed affiliations
48. social constitutions an entity that exists because people behave as if it exists and whose existence is perpetuated as people and social institutions act in accordance with the widely agreed upon formal rules or informal norms of behavior associated with that entity
49. midrange theory a theory that attempts to predict how certain social institutions tend to function
50. microsociology seeks to understand local interactional contexts; its methods of choise are ethnographic, generally including participant observation and in-depth