Introduction to Sociology

• Sociologists indicate that the study of social behavior and human societies is critically driven by the issue of methodology.
• Questioning common sense issues is seen as important during the intellectual phases of sociology, according to Assimeng.
• Peter analyzing kidnapping incidence by referencing family variables is seen as a sociological analysis.
• C. Wright Mills defines a vivid awareness of the relationship between personal life and wider society as sociological imagination.
• Sociological studies view human behavior as largely shaped by the groups to which individuals belong.
• Factors that influenced sociology's development and sociological theory include all of the follow except language differences.
• The importance of sociological knowledge are awareness of cultural differences, helping in designing and implementing policies, and interpretation of the social world.
• A core element in sociological imagination is the capability to perceive one's society as a stranger
• Proto-sociological thinking refinements result in sociological imagination, according to Assimeng.
• Private ownership of production means for maximizing profit relates to capitalism.
• Emphasizing sovereignty in the hands of the people, rather than monarchy, was the foundation for political revolutions and the development of sociology.
• Auguste Comte initiated advising positivism for sociological studies.
• Enlightenment refers to people explaining social events and behavior via pragmatic reasons as opposed to religion.
• Sociologists say human behavior is greatly influenced by social forces.
• People are what they are and behave the way they behave because of their particular society in a particular time.
• In sociological analysis, the focus is on groups.
• People have to understand the social context to understand the actions and experiences of other people.
• A theoretical perspective says society consists of interrelated components working independently toward a stable society which is the functionalist perspective.
• Meritocracy, hierarchical organization based on rules, the separation of private affairs from official duties is called bureaucracy.
• Observation stage, theoretical stage are not included as a part of Comte's law.
• Economic determinism according to Marx posits that the economic system determines a society's structure and development.
• An ideal type is an investigative analytical construct that serves the investigator as a measuring rod.
• According to Durkheim, suicide rate varied inversely to the degree of social integration and social regulations.
• An illusion which eases the pain produced by exploitation and oppression, according to Karl Marx, is religion.
• Comte split sociology into two sub-disciplines called social statics and social dynamics.
• A type of solidarity rooted in the dissimilarity of members is categorized as organic solidarity.
• According to Herbert Spencer, Evolution is a change from indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a state of relative definiteness, coherent, heterogeneity.
• According to Karl Marx, the driving force of social change is class struggle.
• Comte's final stage of laws of three stages is the positivist stage.
• According to Durkheim, things that are external to, but coercive of, the individual are social facts.
• Dysfunctions refers to an element or process of society that may disrupt a social system, or lead to a decrease in stability.
• Conflict perspectives see the social world in continual struggle.
• Men are dominated by forces of their own creation impacting their personality and connections with others, relates to alienation.
• Fatalistic suicide is a type of suicide resulting from over-regulation.
• Max Weber emphasizes social action as the subject matter of sociology.
• Weber defines power as controlling others, even without their consent.
• Charismatic authority rests on devotion to specific, exceptional, and heroic qualities of an individual.
• Positivist ways of attaining sociology has many areas except compressions.
• Humans cannot survive without society is the best explanation to "Humans are social animals".
• All of the following denotes key attributes of society except same political authority.
• Being the first kind of society to start from human existence, the Hunting and Gathering society is known for the following attributes except domestication of wild animals for food.
• Little premium on possessions is a factor in the Hunting and Gathering society.
• The importance of religion begins to diminish as society advances to the industrial phase.
• Elaborate division of labor is characteristic of industrial societies.
• The production of services and information is mainly a trait of post-industrial societies.
• Culture is a very important concept which must be studied because it helps in sociological analysis.
• All the following statement about culture are true, except culture is transmitted genetically.
• A group with a contrasting culture within the University may be seen as having a counter-culture.
• The technological aspects of culture in daily life are known as material culture.
• Established standards of behavior maintained by a society are referred to as norms.
• Everyday life's usages and conventions handed down from generation to generation is referred to as folkways.
• Osmosis is excluded from the social processes that lead to culture change.
• Discovery is the unearthing of new perceptions that already exist.
• The culture of ordinary people is known as subculture.
• Experiencing surprise, disorientation, or feeling out of place upon first visiting KNUST campus is known as culture shock.
• Xenocentrism is the belief that one's culture is inferior to an alien culture.
• A tendency to view other cultures as backwards is an evidence of ethnocentrism.
• Socially shared ideas about what is good, right and desirable are known as values
• Penalties and rewards for behavior of social norms are known as sanctions.
• Norms are the 'must and must not do' rules of a society, these violations are however not taken as serious as folkways
• An association within a broader society exhibiting aligned cultural practices is classified as a subculture community.

Explore the basics of sociology, including social behavior, sociological imagination, and the influence of groups on human behavior. Understand the importance of sociological knowledge and its applications in policy design and cultural awareness. Learn to perceive society from a new perspective.