SYG1000 Sociology – Module 1 Quiz – Flashcards

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Which of the following modern sociological theories states that the best way to analyze society is to identify the purpose that different aspects or phenomena play in the overall structure of society?
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functionalism
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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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American sociology in the United States began at which of the following universities?
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University of Chicago
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While historians are more likely to focus on the unique case, sociologists would more likely focus on:
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commonalities
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Which of the three historical epistemological stages did Comte argue would explain human society by identifying the "laws" that governed human behavior?
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the scientific stage
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The Chicago School's Jane Addams founded the first American settlement house, an institution to help the poor by offering aid, educational services, and more. This house was known as the:
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Hull House
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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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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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Which feminist sociologist wrote Sex, Gender, and Society (1972), which argued that much of what we attribute to biological sex differences can actually be traced to learned behaviors and socialization?
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Ann Oakley
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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 is defined as a complex group of interdependent positions that together perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time?
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a social institution
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In the discipline of history, focusing on historical figures such as Adolf Hitler is known as:
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"great man" theories
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According to the theory of social solidarity, the division of labor in a society helps to determine:
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the way social cohesion among individuals is maintained.
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The functionalist paradigm went largely unchallenged in the United States until about the 1950s. C. Wright Mills criticized Talcott Parsons for:
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supporting the dominant class structure and the inequalities associated with it.
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The textbook author uses dialogue from Pulp Fiction, in which the characters discuss how in Holland people put mayonnaise on their french fries, in order to:
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explain the sociological imagination
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A white woman goes into an upscale shop to look at clothes. She is excited to see that there is a sale and gathers a huge pile of clothes to take into the dressing room. An African American woman goes into the store and is also excited about the sale but hesitates to take too many clothes into the dressing room because she is afraid the staff will think she might shoplift. W. E. B. Du Bois would say that the African American woman has:
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a double consciousness
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In the book How to Observe Morals and Manners, the institution of marriage is criticized as:
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based on an assumption of the inferiority of women.
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Which early U.S. sociologist told other sociologists in the Chicago School to "go out and get the seats of [their] pants dirty in real research"?
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Robert Park
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In today's society, Randall Collins might suggest that getting a "piece of paper" is more important to many than actually having the knowledge to do a job. He calls the priority placed on formal education:
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credentialism
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Native Americans may see the history of the United States differently than white Europeans. Which theory would argue that there is not a unifying "grand narrative" of history because history itself is not objective, but rather socially constructed?
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postmodernism
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