Table of Contents
- 1 Which theoretical approach gives an evolutionary explanation of why?
- 2 What concept refers to any change in a subject’s behavior that is caused by the awareness of being studied?
- 3 What are the different theories of culture?
- 4 Which theoretical approach states that social movements depend on rallying around symbols?
- 5 Which theoretical approach was used by the early sociologist?
- 6 Which is the best description of philosophical materialism?
- 7 How is materialism related to the theory of immaterial substance?
Which theoretical approach gives an evolutionary explanation of why?
Sociology Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which theoretical approach gives an evolutionary explanation of why the sexual “double standard” is found around the world? | the sociobiology approach |
| The term Homo sapiens, the name of our species, comes from Latin meaning | “intelligent person.” |
Which theoretical approach states that the stability of us?
Which theoretical approach states that the stability of U.S. society rests on core values shared by most people? Answers: structural-functional approach.
What concept refers to any change in a subject’s behavior that is caused by the awareness of being studied?
What concept refers to any change in a subject’s behavior that is caused by the awareness of being studied? The Hawthorne effect. You just studied 14 terms!
Who was the US sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions in the latent functions of social patterns?
Who was the US sociologist who distinguished between?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who was the US sociologist who distinguished between the manifest functions and the latent functions of social patterns? | Robert Merton |
| The recognized and intended consequences of social pattern are referred to as _____ _______ | manifest functions |
What are the different theories of culture?
Let’s finish our analysis of culture by reviewing them in the context of three theoretical perspectives: functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism.
Which theoretical approach stresses stability and order and states that the stability of the US society rests on core values shared by most people?
Which theoretical approach asserts that the stability of U.S. society rests on core values shared by most people? structural-functional approach.
Which theoretical approach states that social movements depend on rallying around symbols? Culture theory.
What Lenski termed as the industrial society and Marx termed as the capitalist society Weber termed it the society?
43) What Lenski called the industrial society and Marx called the capitalist society, Weber considered: d. a rational society. 44) How did Weber describe traditional societies?
Which theoretical approach was used by the early sociologist?
Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Two of sociology’s early founders were: | Auguste Comte and Karl Marx |
| Which theoretical approach is closest to that taken by early sociologists Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim? | structural-functional approach |
| The structural-functional approach helps us to: | understand “what makes society tick.” |
Which of the following is a theoretical approach that focuses on how society is divided by inequality and conflict?
Like the gender-conflict approach, the race-conflict approach is concerned with social inequality. The focus of the symbolic-interaction approach is how society is divided by class, race, and gender.
Which is the best description of philosophical materialism?
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions. According to philosophical materialism, mind and consciousness are by-products or epiphenomena…
Why was Marx’s theory of historical materialism important?
His theory is that material conditions essentially comprise technological means of production and human society is formed by the forces and relations of production. Marx’s theory of historical materialism is historical. It is historical because Marx has traced the evolution of human societies from one stage to another.
The materialist view is perhaps best understood in its opposition to the doctrines of immaterial substance applied to the mind historically by René Descartes; however, by itself materialism says nothing about how material substance should be characterized. In practice, it is frequently assimilated to one variety of physicalism or another.
Can a dialectical materialist be an extreme materialist?
Dialectical materialists contrast their view with what they call “vulgar” materialism; and it does, indeed, appear that their theory is not an extreme materialism, whether mechanical or physicalist. They seem to hold merely that mental processes are dependent on or have evolved from material ones.