Soc Chapter 1

16 October 2022
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What approach is often used to understand what's defined as deviant within a society?
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Constructivism
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Sociology is defined as the
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the systematic study of society and social interaction
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Who coined the term positivism and is considered the father of sociology?
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Auguste Comte
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Define C. Wright Mill's sociological imagination
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how individuals understand their own and others' pasts in relation to history and social structure
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A hypothesis can be defined as
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A testable proposition
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The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior (or, the concept that the individual and society are inseparable) is referred to as:
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Figuration
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A paradigm can be defined as:
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philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them
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Conflict Theory
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a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources
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Which theorist claimed that people rise to their proper level in society based solely on their belief in a meritocracy?
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ร‰mile Durkheim
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Structural Functionalism
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a conceptual framework positing that each element of society serves a particular function to keep the entire system in equilibrium
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Qualitative sociology can be defined as
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In depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data
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manifest function
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the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern
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latent functions
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the unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern
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Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Karl Marx were all advocates of:
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conflict theory
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Symbolic Interactionism
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a micro-level theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions
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Weber's proposal of anti positivism influenced sociological researchers to
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Gain a subjective understanding of human cultural norms while examining different social worlds
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According to Durkheim, which are social facts?
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A religious belief, a law, a custom
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Verstechen is defined by the text as
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To understand in a deep way