Chapter 1

Question 1

Violence

Answer 1

The use of physical force to cause pain, injury, death, or damage to property, destructiveness aimed at some targeted other

Question 2

Social Problem

Answer 2

A social condition or pattern of behaviour that people believe warrants public concern and collective action to bring about change, because they systematically harm or disadvantage a significant number of people

Question 3

Sociology

Answer 3

The academic and scholarly discipline that engages in systematic study of human society and social interactions

Question 4

Society

Answer 4

A large number of individuals that share the same geographical territory and are subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations, the groups and organizations within

Question 5

Discrimination

Answer 5

Actions or practices of dominant group members that have harmful impact on members of subordinate groups

Question 6

Dominant group

Answer 6

The group whose members are disproportionately at the top of the hierarchy, with max access to the society’s power resources, ex. political office, ownership of the means of production

Question 7

Subordinate groups aka minority groups

Answer 7

Those whose members do not occupy such positions of power as the dominant group

Question 8

Hate crime

Answer 8

Discrimination acted out in the form of violence, violence motivated by prejudice against people on the basis of racialized identity, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation

Question 9

Verstehen

Answer 9

Understanding or insight, enables individuals to see the world as others see it and empathize with them, Weber

Question 10

Sociological imagination

Answer 10

The ability to see the relationship between an individual’s experiences and larger society in which they are contextualized, connecting the private troubles of individuals to public issues of a society, Mills

Question 11

Public issues

Answer 11

Matters beyond a person’s control that originate at the regional or national level, can be resolved only by collective action

Question 12

Micro-level analysis

Answer 12

Small group relations and social interactions among individuals

Question 13

Macro-level analysis

Answer 13

Social processes occurring at the societal level, large scale organizations, major societal institutions, ex. government, politics, the economy

Question 14

Theory

Answer 14

A set of logically related statements that attempt to describe, explain, and occasionally predict social events, explaining relationships between social concepts/phenomena, ex. ethnicity & unemployment, a framework for organizing our observations

Question 15

Perspective

Answer 15

An overall approach or viewpoint towards a subject

Question 16

Social change

Answer 16

The alteration, modification or transformation of public policy, culture, or social institutions over time, has a short/medium/long term temporal dimension aka lasting effect

Question 17

Micro-level solutions

Answer 17

Focus on how individuals operate within small groups to try to remedy a problem that affects them, their family/friends

Question 18

Primary groups

Answer 18

Small less specialized groups in which members engage face-to-face, emotion based interactions over an extended period of time, groups with which one routinely shares more personal experiences in life

Question 19

Mid-range solutions to problems

Answer 19

Focus on how secondary groups and formal organizations can assist individuals in overcoming issues, social problems best reduced by reaching one person at a time

Question 20

Grassroots groups

Answer 20

Prganizations started by ordinary people who work in concert to deal with a perceived problem in their neighbourhood, city, province, territory or nation

Question 21

Social movement

Answer 21

An organized group that acts collectively to promote or resist change through collective action

Question 22

Macro-level solutions to problems

Answer 22

Focus on how large scale social institutions may be persuaded to become involved in remedying social problems

Question 23

Special-interest group

Answer 23

A political coalition composed of individuals or groups sharing a specific interest they wish to protect or advance with the help of the political system, aka pressure groups/lobbies

Question 24

Collective behaviour

Answer 24

Voluntary, spontaneous, activity of a large number of people thats typically violates dominant group norms and values, ex. riots

Question 25

Civil disobedience

Answer 25

Non-violent action that seeks to change a policy or law by refusing to comply with it, ex. boycotts, strikes

Question 26

National social movements

Answer 26

Divided into reform, revolutionary, religious, alternative and resistance movements