Key Concept Quiz 1

Question 1

Confirmation Bias

Answer 1

The bias to accept uncritically anything that confirms our worldview and to be overly critical of anything that challenges or disproves our worldview. Simply put, we are all biased to favor information that confirms what we already believed.

Question 2

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 2

When we mistakenly attribute the cause of an individual’s behavior/experience to individual factors when, in fact, that individual’s behavior/experience was (at least partially) the result of supra-individual factors.

Question 3

Phenomenon

Answer 3

Any observed action, event, or outcome

Question 4

Social Location

Answer 4

The collection of social demographics (i.e. your race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, citizenship, etc.) that you hold and how they relate to everyone else in your community and around the world

Question 5

Social Phenomenon

Answer 5

An observable action, event, or outcome that is caused by social factors. Social phenomena cannot be created, caused, or controlled by any single individual

Question 6

Society

Answer 6

A group of people who share a social structure, culture, and territory.

Question 7

Sociology

Answer 7

The scientific exploration of how society influences individuals and how individuals create society through interaction.

Question 8

Supra-Individual

Answer 8

An adjective that literally translates to greater than the individual.

Question 9

The Sociological Imagination

Answer 9

The ability to think simultaneously analyze individual, societal, and historical factors surrounding any social phenomena.

Question 10

Worldview

Answer 10

The perspective you have on the world around you. Our individual worldview is shaped by our social, cultural, and personal experiences all of which are profoundly influenced by our social location. Each of us has a worldview and it reflects the biases and assumptions we hold about the world around us.