Exam 1: Sociology: Perspective, Theory, and Method

The social-conflict approach draws attention to

A sociologist should never use data collected by any other person or organization.

What term refers to the value that occurs midway in a series of numbers (that is, the middle case)?

Participant observation is usually explanatory, identifying cause and effect relationships.

Critical sociology can best be described as

Which founding sociologist emphasized the importance of understanding a social setting from the point of view of the people in it?

Empirical evidence refers to what we can verify with our senses.

William Foote Whyte, who studied a community he called "Cornerville," found that "breaking in" to the community was unexpectedly easy.

The social-conflict approach highlights social inequality involving dimensions such as class, gender, and race.

The goal of researchers guided by the structural-functional approach is not just to understand society as much as to reduce social inequality.

Most sociologists agree with Auguste Comte that science is a crucial part of sociology, but most also agree that

Two variables are said to display correlation if

Making use of the sociological perspective encourages

Like the gender-conflict approach, the race-conflict approach is concerned with social inequality.

Which of the following phrases best describes the focus of the structural-functional approach?

Every social structure is useful, or functional, in a positive sense for the operation of society.

Studying the meaning people attach to their everyday lives is the search for

Because there is more social isolation in rural areas in the United States than urban areas, we would expect suicide rates to be:

It would be correct to say that critical sociology

The recognized and intended consequences of a social pattern are referred to as