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sociology ch.1
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Sociology
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2008

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C. Write Mills developed the term..??
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Sociological Imagination
Who developed the term..??
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Famous for his theory on suicide..??
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Emile Durkheim is famous for his theory on..??
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who Coined the term "Looking glass self"..?
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Charles Horton Cooley coined the term..??
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who Thought that the proletariat was always in conflict with the bourgeoisie?
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Karl Marx thought that the proletariat was always in conflict with..?
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Who applied Darwin's survival of the fittest theory to society?
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Herbert Spencer
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Who introduced the "ideal type" ??
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Max Weber
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Who is famous for introducing the concepts of manifest and latent functions??
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Robert K. Merton
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Who wrote the first book on sociological research methods??
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Harriet Martineau
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What term is given to define the scientific study of social behavior and human groups??
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Sociology
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What term is used to define the awarness of the relationship between the individual and the wider society??
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Sociological Imagination
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What term coined by Durkheim, is associated with suicide and "normlessness?"
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Anomie
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What does Merton call a social function that is expected and observed (as oppose to one that is not expected) ??
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Manifest Function
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What is the sociological study of small groups called??
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Microsociology
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What term describes the use of sociology with the intent of yielding practical applicationfor human behavior??
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Applied sociology
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What is the German word for "understanding" that Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to really understand by looking at the subjective meanings people attatch to their actions??
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Verstehen
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What was the term that Marx used to descrie his theory that economic issues fuel social change??
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Economic determinism
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In his example of an ideal type, what term did Ferdinand Toennies give to a "community" as an example of a rural area??
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Gemeinschaft
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Karl Marx is commonly associated with this perpective or theory/?
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Conflict theory
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Which major theory or perspective states that society is a network of connected parts, all of which maintains the system as a whole??
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Functionalist theory
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What is the name of the theory, introduced by Charles Horton Cooley, that suggests that our definition of self is a product of our social interactions??
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Interactionist perspective
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What is the name of the approach that compares society to a theater in which actors only play out a role that is appropriate for the audience to see??
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Dramaturgical approach
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What is the name of Durkheim's theory that maintains suicide rates are related to the extent to which people are integrated into the society and had feelings of belongingness??
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Social integration theory
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A theory is considered effective if it does what two things??
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Explains and predicts
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