Sociology Ch 1 Quiz. – Flashcards
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The "grand narrative" that constitutes a social identity:
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is nothing more than a sum of individual stories told between pairs of individuals.
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Postmodern sociologists argue that all so-called objective phenomena are open to debate because all meaning is subjective. Thus, to postmodernists, all "facts" are really:
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social constructs.
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Explaining unique cases is the focus of most historians, whereas the comparative method is the staple of the sociologist. This comparative method is also known as:
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the nomothetic approach.
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Robert Merton's modern sociological theory focused on attempting to predict how certain social institutions function between microsociology and macrosociology. This is known as
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midrange theory.
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"If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences" is the theory of which of the following Chicago School theorists?
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W. I. Thomas
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The examination of human behavior within a rational actor model is the focus of which of the following "cousins" of sociology?
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economics
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American sociology in the United States began at which of the following universities?
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University of Chicago
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According to research used to question credentialism, what might it cost to buy a college diploma online?
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$29.95
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Positivism is best defined as the:
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idea that we can scientifically and logically study social institutions and the individuals within them.
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The Division of Labor in Society was the first of many sociological contributions from:
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Émile Durkheim.
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Which of the following sociologists wrote Suicide in 1897
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Émile Durkheim
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All of the following are examples of social institutions used to prevent websites from undermining colleges' degree-conferring abilities EXCEPT: copyright law. b. families. c. police forces. d. employers.
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families
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Feeling discomfort about rural Chinese society, where many generations of a family sleep in the same bed, is known as:
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xenophobia
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Who criticized Marx for focusing exclusively on economics and social class as explanations for human behavior and advocated sociological analyses that allowed for multiple influences?
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Max Weber
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Which of the following argues that the organizing narratives of history are over, and that progress has led to a condition where there are no shared, objective meanings?
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postmodernism
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Sociology is the study of:
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Correctc. group-level dynamics and social structures.
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In contrast to functionalism, which modern sociological theory borrows from Marx's belief that competition, not consensus, is the essential cause of social change?
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conflict theory
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Chicago was a good place to study urbanism using more of a community-based approach (a.k.a. social ecology). Why?
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The population was experiencing rapid growth due to foreign immigration and the influx of African Americans from the rural South.
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Who was the author of the first methods book in the discipline of sociology?
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Harriet Martineau
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Although positivism originated with Auguste Comte, the person who is often considered to be the first practitioner of positivism is:
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Émile Durkheim.
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Each of the following is known as one of the three epistemological stages of human society, as explained by Comte, EXCEPT:
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the postscientific stage.
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To truly understand why people act the way they do, we must understand the meanings they attach to their behaviors. Max Weber called this:
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Verstehen
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According to Comte, positivism arose out of a need to make ____________ sense of the social order in a time of declining religious authority.
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moral
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According to Randall Collins's (1979) research, the expansion of higher education is:
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a result of credentialism and expenditures on formal education.
