Ch 1: Sociological Imagination

Question 1

What is the study of human society and social life and the social causes and consequences of human behavior

Answer 1

Sociology

Question 2

What studies the human mind and cognition

Answer 2

Psychology

Question 3

What studies culture and society but primarily focused on politics

Answer 3

Political Science

Question 4

studies culture but more comparative and less explanatory

Answer 4

Anthropology

Question 5

how goods, services, and wealth are produced, consumed, and later distributed

Answer 5

Economics

Question 6

Sociologists explain _____ through structure

Answer 6

phenomena

Question 7

Sociologists are interested in issues that impact ____ and not so much individuals

Answer 7

groups

Question 8

Sociologists study _____ that emerge in human social life

Answer 8

patterns

Question 9

_____ looks at the big picture

Answer 9

Macro

Question 10

Country, state, city, or a particular group or people are examples of

Answer 10

macro

Question 11

_____ looks at the small group level

Answer 11

Micro

Question 12

Between Macro and Micro

Answer 12

Meso

Question 13

Who asks us to understand the influence of social forces on our individual lives?

Answer 13

C. Wright Mills

Question 14

C. Wright Mills says:

Answer 14

“Intersection of history and biography”

Question 15

• Make the familiar strange
• Question the habits or customs that seem “natural”

Are examples of using your what?

Answer 15

Using your sociological imagination

Question 16

_______ is a conscious effort to question the obvious and examine experiences critiques and objectively

Answer 16

The Sociological Perspective

Question 17

Who said “The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal the which is hidden”?

Answer 17

Pierre Bourdieu

Question 18

How does the sociological process begin?

Answer 18

By seeing patterns in human behavior

Question 19

What is a way that sociologists answer questions using data gathered in different ways

Answer 19

Methdology