The scientific study of social behaviors and human group is known as: - CORRECT ANSWER
Sociology
The awareness that allows people to comprehend the
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social settings and the remote, impersonal social world is called: - CORRECT ANSWER C.
Wright Mills sociological imagination
Sociology is considered a science because sociologist: - CORRECT ANSWER Study the
influence that society has on people's attitudes and behavior
Sociologists argue that, unlike scientific knowledge, common sense conclusions are: -
CORRECT ANSWER Sociologists do not accept something as fact because "every one knows
it" each piece must be tested, recorded, and analyzed.
Emile Durkheim's study of suicide related suicide rates to: - CORRECT ANSWER Group life
(theory side)
The discipline of sociology was given its name by the French theorist: - CORRECT ANSWER
Auguste Comte
Anomie refers to: - CORRECT ANSWER Loss of direction felt in a society when social control
of individual behavior becomes ineffective
The word that Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's
emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and attitudes was: - CORRECT ANSWER
Verstehen
Which sociological perspective would view society as a living organism in which each part of
the organism contributes to it survival and stability? - CORRECT ANSWER Functionalist
perspective
Which sociological perspective sees the social world as being in continual struggle? -
CORRECT ANSWER Conflict perspective
What is used to describe a systematic, organized series of step that ensures maximum objectivity
and consistency in researching a problem? - CORRECT ANSWER Scientific Method
What is commonly the second step in the scientific method? - CORRECT ANSWER Reviewing
the literature
A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables is known as: -
CORRECT ANSWER Hypothesis
A variable is: - CORRECT ANSWER Measurable trait or characteristic subject to change under
different conditions
What can serve as a variable in a study? - CORRECT ANSWER Ethic background, marital
status, and age
Social scientists call the variable that is hypothesized to cause or influence another variable is: -
CORRECT ANSWER Independent variable
The race of a criminal offender is associated with the frequency with which capital punishment is
administered. In this example, the capital punishment is the: - CORRECT ANSWER Dependent
variable
The relationship between a condition or a variable and a particular consequence, with one even
leading to the other, is known as: - CORRECT ANSWER Casual logic
The relationship between two variables whereby a change in one coincides with a change in the
other is known as: - CORRECT ANSWER Correlation
In which type of sample does each member of the entire population being studied have the same
chance of being selected? - CORRECT ANSWER Random sample
A research measure that provides consistent results is considered: - CORRECT ANSWER
Reliability
Valid research measures: - CORRECT ANSWER - Accurate measures
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