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Sociology Chapter 1 Study Guide
1. Durkheim came up with the concept of Social Facts- what is a social fact
and give three or more examples?
2. What is the foreign term for understanding something in a deep way?
3. What is Conflict Theory and who were major sociologists who believed it
explained the organization of society?
4. What is Symbolic Interactionism and how do followers of this paradigm
view the world?
5. How do Structural Functionalists view society? They view society as…
6. How are Micro-level and Macro-level different? Give an example of each.
7. Who is considered the father of Sociology? Why is he considered this?
8. If somebody is engaged in Qualitative Sociology, what types of methods
would they engage in to gather their data?
9. What is Manifest Function to a sociologist? Provide an example
10.What is Latent Function to a sociologist? Provide an example
11.How did Emile Durkheim feel that people rose to their level in society?
12.What is a Paradigm in sociology?
13.How does Figuration look at the relationship between the individual and
society?
14.If a sociology researcher were to research using a Quantitative data
gathering strategy, what type of information would they gather?
15.What do communists mean by “means of production”?
16.What did Weber mean by the term Antipositivism?
17.What is Sociology?
18.According to Auguste Comte, what is Positivism?
19.What did C. Wright Mill mean by Sociological Imagination?
20.In sociology, what is meant by Shared Beliefs?
21.What is a Theory?
22.What kind of theory covers large-scale issues and what type covers very
specific relationships? Which one is more testable?
23.What is Dynamic Equilibrium’s relationship to Functionalism?
24.What is Dysfunction in sociology?
25.Why study Sociology? (section 1.4)- short answer