Definition Matching
Theories & Concepts
Scientific Research
Sociology Basics
100

Anything that represents something else

A: Sample

B: Social Fact

C: Symbol

D: Latent Function

C: Symbol

100

This contemporary sociological perspective focuses on the inequality faced by women

A: Functionalism

B: Race-conflict theory

C: Feminism

D: Symbolic interactionism

C: Feminism

100

The participants who are not exposed to the independent variable

A: Subjects

B: Population

C: Experimental Group

D: Control Group

D: Control Group

100

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

100

Focuses on large scale sociological patterns

A: Macrosociology

B: Microsociology

C: Control Group

D: Verstehen

A: Macrosociology

100

An unintended consequence of society

A: Social Integration

B: Manifest Function

C: Social Fact

D: Latent Function

D: Latent function

100

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


100

The first sociologist to actually "do" sociology

A: Weber

B: DuBois

C: Durkheim

D: Martineau

C: Durkheim

100

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

100

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

100

A researcher directly asks respondents a series of questions

A: Interview

B: Empirical

C: Conflict theory

D: Experiment

A: Interview

100

Coined the phrase "sociological imagination"

A: Weber

B: Mills

C: Addams

D: Durkheim

B: Mills

100

Aspects of social life that can be measured

A: Value free

B: Manifest Functions

C: Verstehen

D: Social facts

D: Social facts

100

This perspective emphasizes symbols and language

A: Conflict

B: Feminist

C: Symbolic Interactionism

D: Race Conflict

C: Symbolic Interactionism

100

Information that is based on observations and data

A: Straw poll

B: Intuition

C: Subjective

D: Empirical

D: Empirical

100

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

100

The negative consequences an element of society has that destabilizes the system

A: Symbolic interaction

B: Dysfunction

C: Postmodernism

D: Function

B: Dysfunction

100

The theoretical approach that focuses on competition and change

A: Symbolic interactionism

B: Feminist theory

C: Alienation

D: Conflict theory

D: Conflict theory

100

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

100

Who is NOT considered one of the early Sociologists?

A: Verstehen

B: Marx

C: Weber

D: Durkheim

A: Verstehen

100

AN economic system based on the private ownership of property and the means of production

A: Socialism

B: Capitalism

C: Communism

D: Neo-conservatism

B: Capitalism
100

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

100

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

100

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