Chapter Review 1 – An Introduction to Sociology

Richard Perez
Name_____________________________
Sociological
1. Sociologists often study culture using the ___________________________________
Imagination
_____________________________________ which pioneer C. Wright Mills described as an
Behavior
awareness of the relationship between a person’s ______________________________ and
Colture
experience and the wider ______________________ that shaped the person’s choices and
perceptions.
Postivism
2. “The term ______________________________ . . . was reintroduced by Auguste
Comte
_________________________.”
3. “Marx. . . believed that societies grew and changed as a result of the
Struggles Social Classes
_________________________ of different __________________ ____________________
over the means of production.”
Social
4. Durkheim believed that sociologists could study objective “_____________________
Facts
__________________.”
Theory
5. In sociology, a _____________________ is a way to explain different aspects of social
Testable
interactions and to create a ________________________ proposition, called a
Hypothesis
____________________________, about society.
Organs
6. “He argued that just as the various ________________________ of a body work together
Functioning
to keep the body _____________________________, the various parts of
Society
__________________________ work together to keep society functioning.”
Conflict
7. _________________________ theory looks at society as a competition for limited resources.
Symbolic
8. _________________________________ Interactionism
____________________________________ is a
Relationships
micro-level theory that focuses on the _____________________________ among individuals
within a society.

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