Download SOCIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE UNIT 1

SOCIOLOGY STUDY GUIDE UNIT 1
1. Give two definitions for the term “Sociology”
2. List some social relations that can be studied:
Easy ones:
Moderately difficult ones to study:
Hard to study:
3. Why are some relations easier to study than others?
4. What goals does Sociology share with the sciences?
5. Does Sociology give the solutions to problems directly?
6. What are social facts
7. List some social facts that could contribute to riots?
8. Describe the “Scientific Method”.
9. What did Sociologist Emil Durkheim find out about suicide?
10. What do Sociologists believe about most personality traits?
11. Why don’t people in a given society act the same?
12. Describe the three categories into which all human behavior can be grouped.
13. Describe the three roles into which most Sociologist fit in society.
14. List some common specific jobs of Sociologist.
15. Anomie
16. Verstehen
17. What are Emile Durkheim main ideas?
18. What are Max Weber’s main ideas?
19. What was Karl Marx’s view of society? What formed those ideas?
20. What was the reason for criminal behavior according to Robert Merton?
21. Who coined the term Sociology?
22. What is the Sociological Imagination?
23. Herbert Spencer
24. Microsociology
25. Macrosociology
26. Three Theoretical perspectives:
Functionalist:
Conflict:
Interactionist: