What approach is often used to understand what's defined as deviant within a society?
a. Criticism
b. Symbolic interactionism
c. Constructivism
d.
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Sociology is defined as the:
a. Qualitative analysis of human phenomenon.
b. Systematic study of society and social interaction.
c. Quantitative analysis of social transgressions.
d. Theoretical examination of life's origins. Systematic study of society and social interaction
Which of the following men coined the term positivism, and is widely considered the father of sociology?
a. Auguste Comte
b. Karl Marx
c. Max Weber
d. Émile Durkheim Auguste Comte
Please define C. Wright Mill's sociological imagination.
a. The theory that man evolved slowly over time.
b. The process of analyzing human behavior based solely on statistics.
c. A series of interviews asking subjects about their sleep habits and dreams.
d. How individuals understand their own and others' pasts in relation to history and social structure. How individuals understand their own and others' past in relation to history and social structure
A hypothesis can be defined as:
a. A way to explain different aspects of social interactions
b. A testable proposition
c. An attempt to explain large-scale relationships
d. Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them A testable proposition
6. The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior (or, the concept that the individual and society are inseparable) is referred to as:
a. Dynamic equilibrium
b. Latent functions
c. Dramaturgical analysis
d. Figuration Figuration
A paradigm can be defined as:
a. Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.
b. The social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion [Show Less]