Midterm Exam 1 - Sociological Perspective Answers

Q. Of all the social science disciplines, sociology takes the broadest approach in terms of both methodology and institutions of focus.

A. True

Q. All three of the major sociological theories can be applied to any social phenomena such as marriage and divorce rates in the US.

A. True

Q. Structural functionalists are primarily concerned with the creation of meaning. For example, they are interested in changing meanings of divorce,

parenthood, and love over time.

A. False

Q. Conflict theorists focus on the relationships among the different parts of society and how they benefit (or not) society as a whole.

A. False

Q. In order to study the social world, social scientists adopt the research model established in the natural sciences.

A. True

Q. The gender of a sociologists conducting an interview can bias the results of a study

A. true

Q. Findings from sociological studies are almost always consistent with “common sense” or our preconceived notions of how the world works

A. false

Q. The awareness of our connectedness to the social world and of our biography to history is referred to by sociologists as

A. the sociological imagination (~ historical praxis, social theory, social personality theory, biographical imagination)

Q. The race, age, gender, sexual orientation, educational level, job, and income, are indicators of

A. social location (~social network, social ideals, social institutions, social

function)