Chapter 1

Question 1

What is sociology?

Answer 1

The study of groups and group interactions, societies and social interactions

Question 2

What is a society?

Answer 2

A group of people who live in a common area, interact with each other and share a common culture

Question 3

What is the focus of micro level sociology?

Answer 3

Small groups and indivudual interactions

Question 4

What is the focus of macro level sociology?

Answer 4

Trends among and between large groups and societies

Question 5

What is culture?

Answer 5

Group’s shared practices, values, and beliefs that

Question 6

What is sociological imagination?

Answer 6

an awareness of the relationship between a person’s behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person’s choices and perceptions.

Question 7

What are Cultural patterns?

Answer 7

social forces and influences that put pressure on people to select one choice over another.

Question 8

What are social facts

Answer 8

the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and cultural rules that govern social life

Question 9

What is figuration

Answer 9

the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior

Question 10

What is social solidarity?

Answer 10

, social ties within a group,Wh

Question 11

What do grand theories try to do?

Answer 11

Eexplain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change.

Question 12

What are paradigms?

Answer 12

theories that provide broad perspectives that help explain many different aspects of social life,

Question 13

What does structural functionalism focus on?

Answer 13

The way each part of society functions together to contribute to the functioning of the whole.

Question 14

What does conflict theory focus on?

Answer 14

The way inequities and inequalities contribute to social, political, and power differences and how they perpetuate power.

Question 15

What does symbolic interactionism focus on?

Answer 15

The way one-on-one interactions and communications behave.

Question 16

What level does symbolic interactionism focus on?

Answer 16

Micro

Question 17

What level does conflict theory focus on?

Answer 17

Macro

Question 18

What level does Structural functionalism focus on?

Answer 18

Macro/mid

Question 19

What does structural functionalism see society as?

Answer 19

a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of the individuals in that society.

Question 20

What parts keep society running in structural functionalism?

Answer 20

Social institutions, patterns of beliefs

Question 21

What is dynamic equilibrium in structural functionalism

Answer 21

A healthy society where all parts are working to maintain stability

Question 22

Manifest functions are

Answer 22

the consequences of a social process that are sought or anticipated, while

Question 23

Latent functions are

Answer 23

the unsought consequences of a social process.

Question 24

What are dysfunctions?

Answer 24

Social processes that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society

Question 25

What are some criticisms of structural functionalism?

Answer 25

It can't explain social change and dysfunctions continue

Question 26

How does conflict theory see the world?

Answer 26

as a competition for limited resources.

Question 27

How does power work in conflict theory?

Answer 27

People at the top maintain power and keep inequality

Question 28

What is critical theory?

Answer 28

A theory that must explain what’s wrong in current social reality, identify the people who can make changes, and provide practical goals for social transformation

Question 29

What are some criticisms of conflict theory?

Answer 29

It may exaggerate the instability of institutions

Question 30

What does symbolic interactionist theory focus on?

Answer 30

the relationships among individuals within a society.

Question 31

What are the three main premises of symbolic interactionism?

Answer 31

humans interact with things based on meanings ascribed to those things; the ascribed meaning of things comes from our interactions with others and society; the meanings of things are interpreted by a person when dealing with things in specific circumstances

Question 32

What is dramaturgical analysis?

Answer 32

People play different roles in life, like actors in a play

Question 33

What is constructivism?

Answer 33

is an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be.

Question 34

What are some criticisms of constructivism?

Answer 34

Hard to stay objective, narrow focus