Sociology Practice EXAM 1

The knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from generation to generation in a society.

Lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire self identity and social/mental skills.

Systematic study of human society and social interaction.

It is essential for survival and communication with other people.

Ability to see relationships between individual experiences and the larger society.

It shapes our attitudes, values, and beliefs.

Personal troubles can lead to social issues if they are reoccurring or prominent in society.

Personal troubles aren't linked to social issues.

Personal troubles are the same thing as social issues.

Priority of social over the individual. Societies are built on social facts such as rules and norms.

Social class conflict produced social change and a better society. Clash of conflicting ideas and forces.

Father of sociology. Knowledge come from science and not religion, the world can be understood by scientific inquiry.

Father of sociology. Knowledge comes from science and not religion, world can be understood by scientific inquiry.

priority of social over the individual. Societies are built on social facts such as, rules and norms.

Social class conflict produced social change and a better society. Clash between conflicting ideas and forces.

Social class conflict produced social change and a better society. Clash between conflicting ideas and forces.

Father of sociology. Knowledge comes from science and not religion, world can be understood by scientific inquiry.

Conflict theory. Groups are engaged in a continuous power. Struggle for resources. Major institutions protect the rich instead of the poor.

Functionalism. Society is a stable and orderly system.

Verstehen: ability to understand social phenomena. Study of how religion produces social change.

Groups are engaged in a continuous power, struggle for resources, and major institutions protect the rich instead of the poor.

Macro: focuses on broad features of the social structure. (looks at forrest) (functionalism & conflict) Micro: focuses on small groups and interpersonal interactions. (looks at trees) (symbolic interaction & exchange)

Micro: focuses on broad features of the social structure. (looks at forrest) (functionalism & conflict) Macro: focuses on small groups and interpersonal interactions. (looks at trees) (symbolic interaction & exchange)

Major institutions and the arrangement of society is the most efficient way of satisfying societies basic needs.

Groups are engaged in a continuous power.

Focus on small groups and interpersonal interactions.

Affect a large group of people.

Groups are engaged in a continuous power, major institutions protect the rich instead of the poor.

Priority of social over the individual.

Allows rich to exercise power over poor, exploit poor and grow richer.

Orderliness of society, society contributes to stability.

Society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups.

Pursue interactions from which profit is derived, social order emerges from individuals actors pursuing interactions.

Held together by norms, values, and common morality.

Society is the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups.