Definition Matching
Anything that represents something else
A: Sample
B: Social Fact
C: Symbol
D: Latent Function
C: Symbol
This contemporary sociological perspective focuses on the inequality faced by women
A: Functionalism
B: Race-conflict theory
C: Feminism
D: Symbolic interactionism
C: Feminism
The participants who are not exposed to the independent variable
A: Subjects
B: Population
C: Experimental Group
D: Control Group
D: Control Group
Sociology is primarily concerned with
A: studying the physical properties of society
B: psychological differences between individuals
C: investigating the natural sciences
D: how society influences human behavior
D: how society influences human behavior
Focuses on large scale sociological patterns
A: Macrosociology
B: Microsociology
C: Control Group
D: Verstehen
A: Macrosociology
An unintended consequence of society
A: Social Integration
B: Manifest Function
C: Social Fact
D: Latent Function
D: Latent function
An unobtrusive data collection method that examines information collected by someone else
A: Experiment
B: Interview
C:Secondary Analysis
D: Primary Analysis
C:Secondary Analysis
The first sociologist to actually "do" sociology
A: Weber
B: DuBois
C: Durkheim
D: Martineau
C: Durkheim
A sociologist who separates his or her personal beliefs from scientific research is
A: functionalist
B:Symbolic Interactionist
C:Value Free
D:Dysfunctional
C: Value Free
when a person sees and connects personal experiences to larger social influences, they are employing
A: Sociological Imagination
B: Latent Functions
C: Functionalism
D: Manifest Functions
A: Sociological Imagination
A researcher directly asks respondents a series of questions
A: Interview
B: Empirical
C: Conflict theory
D: Experiment
A: Interview
Coined the phrase "sociological imagination"
A: Weber
B: Mills
C: Addams
D: Durkheim
B: Mills
Aspects of social life that can be measured
A: Value free
B: Manifest Functions
C: Verstehen
D: Social facts
D: Social facts
This perspective emphasizes symbols and language
A: Conflict
B: Feminist
C: Symbolic Interactionism
D: Race Conflict
C: Symbolic Interactionism
Information that is based on observations and data
A: Straw poll
B: Intuition
C: Subjective
D: Empirical
D: Empirical
This sociologist was a social worker in Chicago who emphasized applying knowledge to solve everyday problems
A: Auguste Comte
B: Emile Durkheim
C: Harriet Martineau
D: Jane Adams
D: Jane Adams
The negative consequences an element of society has that destabilizes the system
A: Symbolic interaction
B: Dysfunction
C: Postmodernism
D: Function
B: Dysfunction
The theoretical approach that focuses on competition and change
A: Symbolic interactionism
B: Feminist theory
C: Alienation
D: Conflict theory
D: Conflict theory
Sociologists focus on a numerical analysis of people's responses or specific characteristics
A: Qualitative Research
B: Quantitative Research
C: Population
D: Probability Sample
B: Quantitative Research
Who is NOT considered one of the early Sociologists?
A: Verstehen
B: Marx
C: Weber
D: Durkheim
A: Verstehen
AN economic system based on the private ownership of property and the means of production
A: Socialism
B: Capitalism
C: Communism
D: Neo-conservatism
This perspective views society as a system of interrelated parts that work together to maintain stability
A: Conflict theory
B: Structural functionalism
C: Symbolic interactionism
D: Feminist theory
B: Structural functionalism
A controlled artificial situation that allows researchers to manipulate variables to measure their effects
A: Experiment
B: Control group
C: Secondary analysis
D: Content analysis
A: Experiment
A body of objective and systematic techniques used to investigate phenomena, acquire knowledge, and test theories
A:Inductive reasoning
B: Hypothesis
C: Deductive Reasoning
D: Scientific method
D: Scientific method