Exam 1: What Is Sociology and Why Should I Care

C. Wright Mills would designate the issue of teenage access and addiction to prescription painkillers nationwide as a _____ and the struggle of one family with a daughter who is abusing painkillers as a _____

Participant observation research is another term for

In sociology, what methods are used most commonly?

Which sociological theory argues that those with economic, social, and political power will use that power to keep what they have and to prevent others from acquiring it or even challenging it?

What is the purpose of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) concept of dramaturgy?

The conclusions drawn from sociological research are generally based on

How can the sociological imagination be applied to the Covid-19 pandemic?

Contextualizing one drunk driver's failure to moderate alcohol intake and/or avoid driving by focusing on the broader failure of laws to better prevent and punish drunk driving is an example of

Social problems are generally attributed to factors beyond any one individual's control due to structural factors. This is referred to as

Macrosociology examines

The sociological perspective is

How do sociologists handle their own bias in their work?

While ______ tends to focus on a consensus model to explain the social order (where everyone is on the same page about social life), ______ argues that this does not reflect the way the world actually works.

The ultimate goal of ethnographic research is ______, which means writing about what was seen, heard, and understood in such a way that the reader gets a vivid image, as if they were standing next to the researcher as he or she made those observations.

Which stage of the evolution of a social problem involves claims makers and moral entrepreneurs bringing about awareness and promoting actions be taken to face a given issue?

According to Durkheim, which type of suicide is attributed to normlessness, where the norms that organize people's lives no longer have value or are broken, causing people great fear and anxiety?

Durkheim felt that in those societies characterized by ______, the collective conscience would be strong, as people in such societies are on the same page with regard to social life; however, this becomes more difficult with increasing industrialization and division of labor.

The general textbook definition of Sociology is

In a scientific experiment, what is a control group?

Deconstructionism refers to