Exam 17: Understanding Sociology: Concepts, Theories, and Perspectives

Émile Durkheim established the first rules for conducting sociological research and examined the impact of modern society on social ______.

College students who graduated during the height of the recession and were not able to find a job but recognized that it was not due to any fault of their own but to larger structural forces were employing ______.

The relationship between agency and structure is ______,as ______.

Identify a social problem or issue.Explain this phenomenon using a conflict theory approach or lens.Include specific conflict theories and concepts to explain why the issue "exists and persists."

Define the term bureaucracy,and illustrate it with an example.

Max Weber believed modern society was increasingly characterized by rationality,as rules,regulations,and larger social structures played a greater role in people's decisions.

The text outlines six simple rules for critical thinking (as outlined by Wade & Tavris,1997).Choose at least three of these rules,and discuss why they are important when conducting a sociological study.

Explain the difference between a macrolevel paradigm and a microlevel paradigm,and provide an example of each.

Identify and define Comte's three stages of society.

Which of the following is NOT one of the social forces that is ignored in blaming the poor for their poverty and suggesting that they work harder and "pull themselves up by their bootstraps"?

Which of the following best describes sociology?

Discuss the views of Harriet Martineau on women's experience in marriage and enslaved Black people in the United States.

Weber used the method of ______ to understand the meaning of what people say and do.

Auguste Comte founded and named sociology as a ______ discipline,pushing for a society in which knowledge would be based on scientific reasoning and facts.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of critical thinking?

Talcott Parsons argued that men were socialized into instrumental roles to be rational workers,whereas women were socialized into expressive roles to be emotional and sensitive caretakers.Which perspective does this statement reflect?

Define globalization.Identify three effects of globalization and how these effects can either be positive or negative for local or national communities.

Which of the following is NOT one of the arguments of early feminist and sociologist Charlotte Perkins Gilman?

Which of the following is NOT one of the stages that Comte argued that all societies would go through?

Which of the following is NOT considered a characteristic of sociology?