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Any relatively stable pattern of social behavior
social structure
The study of the larger world and our society’s place in it
global perspective
An exaggerated description applied to every person in some category
stereotype
A way of understanding based on science
positivism
Auguste Comté claimed that his “religion of humanity” would improve politics by
by showing people that changing to improve life for all would result in less government corruption
According to Auguste Comte’s approach, a person such as Marie Curie, a chemist who did much research on radioactive material, reflected the ____ stage of social development
scientific
Franklin is a loner in high school, wearing black clothes, dying his hair black, painting his fingernails black, and identifying as an “emo.” Franklin being excluded from social activities based upon society’s view of his behavior as an “outsider” is referred to as
social marginality
A student becoming anorexic is an undesirable product of unrealistic body shaming. The student’s action of starvation is an example of a
social dysfunction
Why does symbolic-interaction use micro-level orientation in its examination of society?
it looks into the individual encounters that a person experiences regularly to study the interaction’s impact on the person
The high rate of illiteracy, warfare, and the Black Plague caused much suffering in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. This period produced the ___ stage of sociology
metaphysical
Why did Emilé Durkheim study the suicide rates in France in the late 1800s?
to determine if there was a correlation in suicide rates increasing and the industrial revolution
Why did W.E.B. DuBois call out and attempt to activate American sociologists during the early 1900s?
he believed it was their duty to deal with the problem of racial inequality and solve it
A criticism of the ___ paradigm is that it ignores biological factors and how these biological factors impact who we become and the social institutions that we engage with
symbolic interaction
Ancient civilizations like the Egyptians and the Greeks believed that their gods caused any natural phenomenon that they couldn’t explain. This period produced the ___ stage of sociology
theological
Why did Jane Addams establish Hull House in Chicago in 1889?
she helped immigrants work their way into getting used to American culture
Explain how ethnicity became a bonding agent as people migrated to cities that developed during the origins of sociology
when they moved to the cities, they lived communally in apartments so they would seek out certain complexes of similar people
Having a great physical therapist can decrease the amount of recovery time for a patient recovering from a stroke. This statement would support which theoretical paradigm?
symbolic interaction
Within social marginality, what establishes the expectations for acceptable behavior (or what goes on the paper to the right of the margin line)?
how the majority of people decide what is acceptable (mainstream)
Go Red for Women campaign sponsored by the American Heart Association enlightens women to their risk of cardiovascular disease. This campaign would support which theoretical paradigm?
structural functional
According to Durkheim’s study, why did wealthy males have higher rates of suicide than any other social group in France?
their happiness was materialistic and they never answered the question in life, “why am I here?”
Apply: Manifest function and latent function to a current situation happening in our world. (immigrants example)
Manifest - searching for a better life in the US
Latent - become established in a career even though they are illegal
A criticism of the ___ paradigm is that it ignores and chooses to downplay the successes and professional achievements of minorities.
social conflict
Explain why female sociologists Jane Adams and Harriet Martineau and their contributions to their fields seem to be overshadowed by male sociologists.
men were more interested in the fame and women were hands on in providing help
According to Durkheim’s study, why did males have higher rates of suicide than females in France?
techniques used by males were more irreversible
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, breast cancer-related death rates are 40% higher for Black American women than for White women. This statistic reflects which theoretical paradigm?
social conflict
A criticism of the ___ paradigm states that while it highlights the benefits of social institutions, it ignores the social dysfunctions.
structural functional
Even though he was a doctoral student there, W.E.B. DuBois experienced racism first-hand at ____.
harvard
