Unit test 1 - Chapter 1

Question 1

What is sociology?

Answer 1

-the systematic study of human groups & their interactions

Question 2

What is Sociological Perspective

Answer 2

-unique way that sociologists see our world & can dissect dynamic relationships between individuals and the larger social network in which we all live

Question 3

Charles Wright Mills

Answer 3

• Sociological Imagination
• Personal troubles result from individual challenges
• Social issues caused by larger social factors
• quality of mind; one’s ability to look beyond personal circumstance & into social context

Question 4

Peter Berger

Answer 4

• Seeing the general in the particular; seemingly unique events and recognizing larger features involved
• taking what is familiar and seeing it as strange

Question 5

What makes you, you?

Answer 5

• AGENCY

- STRUCTURE

Question 6

AGENCY

Answer 6

Each of us has some ability to alter our socially constructed lives

Question 7

STRUCTURE

Answer 7

Network of relatively stable opportunities & constraints influencing our individual behaviours

Question 8

The origins of Sociology; Scientific Revolution

Answer 8

1650-1800
Auguste Comte (father of sociology)
-Hard science should be applied to the social world

Question 9

Law of 3 stages

Answer 9

Theological - Religious outlook, the world is an expression of God
Metaphysical - period of questioning & challenging
Positive - rules of observation, experimentation and logic

Question 10

Positivism

Answer 10

-Theoretical approach that considers all understanding to be based on science

Question 11

Anti-Positivism

Answer 11

-Theoretical approach that considers knowledge and understanding to be the result of human subjectivity

Question 12

Quantitative Sociology

Answer 12

• Positivist in nature

- measurable behaviour

Question 13

Qualitativ Sociology

Answer 13

• Anti-positivist in nature

- Non-measurable subjective behaviours

Question 14

Origins of sociology;

Political Revolution

Answer 14

From the renaissance to the enlightenment

• Machiavelli
• Descartes
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Promotion of individual rights & social responsibility, equality of opportunity & the political ideology of democracy

Question 15

Origins of Sociology;

Industrial Revolution

Answer 15

1750

• associated with technological advancement
• Profound social changes
• Moved from an agricultural society based on local food production for local consumption to regional and national distribution networks
• Resulted in new social problems

Question 16

Macrosociology

Answer 16

-Attempts to understand society as a whole

Question 17

Microsociology

Answer 17

-Attempts to understand individual or small group dynamics

Question 18

Four features that define Canadian Sociology

Answer 18

1. Geography & Regionalism
2. Political Economy
3. Canadianization Movement
4. Radical Nature

Question 19

Sociology in Global Perspective

Answer 19

• Looking beyond our own boundaries to consider the dynamic forces of globalization
• Globalization is a worldwide process involving the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services
• Capitalism as a defining feature of the global economy
• Connecting local realities to global collective consciousness