Deck 1: The Sociological Gaze: Linking Private Lives to Public Issues

Question 1

Who first used the term 'sociology'?

A) Herbert Spencer
B) Auguste Comte
C) Claude Saint-Simon
D) Harriet Martineau

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Who coined the term 'sociological imagination'?

A) Evan Willis
B) C. Wright Mills
C) Anthony Giddens
D) Michael Burawoy

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What are the four key features of the 'sociological imagination'?

A) Historical, Cultural, Structural, Critical
B) Efficiency, Calculability, Predictability, Control
C) Structural functionalist, Weberian, Marxist, Feminist
D) Reflexive modernity, Globalisation, McDonaldization, Neo-liberalism

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Who popularised the term 'public sociology'?

A) Raewyn Connell
B) C. Wright Mills
C) Anthony Giddens
D) Michael Burawoy

Question 5

In sociology, what does the term 'structure-agency debate' refer to?

A) The way each society organises the process of socialisation for its citizens
B) Patterns of social interaction
C) The extent humans shape, or are shaped by, the social structure
D) The key social structures of social groups and social institutions

Question 6

Which of the following statements is an example of biological determinism?

A) Socialisation plays a dominant role in the nature-nurture debate
B) Social inequality is the inevitable result of human agency
C) Social identity characteristics are normal
D) The qualities of masculinity and femininity are caused by nature

Question 7

In sociology, what does the term 'agency' refer to?

A) The ability of people to influence the society in which they live
B) A political ideology that emphasises individual freedom in all aspects of social life
C) An ideology that views society as dominated by a conflict of interest between economically powerful groups
D) The ability of humans to engage in recurring patterns of social interaction

Question 8

What term describes the view that people's behaviour and beliefs are entirely shaped or determined by the social structure?

A) Social agency
B) Social structure
C) Socialisation
D) Sociological determinism

Question 9

What term describes the recurring patterns of social interaction through which people are related to each other, such as social institutions and social groups?

A) Social agency
B) Social structure
C) Socialisation
D) Sociological determinism

Question 10

Who said sociology 'is a quality of mind that seems most dramatically to promise an understanding of the intimate realities of ourselves in connection with larger social realities'?

A) Zygmunt Bauman
B) Raewyn Connell
C) C. Wright Mills
D) Michael Burawoy