Sociological Imagination Quiz

A situation where individuals are estranged from their social world and each other.

A term coined by Max Weber for the increased rationalization inherent in social life.

<p>Groups disagreeing and struggling over power</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Things defined as real are real in their consequences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The freedom to make choices and to act.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability to see how historical circumstances of a society affect people, and how people affect history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Historical circumstances of the particular society they live in.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The formation of their society and the course of its history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Men feel more trapped.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Impersonal changes in the very structure of continent-wide societies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Facts about the success and failure of individual men and women.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The life of an individual and the history of a society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because of historical facts that are now becoming 'merely history'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>World history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Understand the larger historical scene in terms of its meaning for individuals' inner life and external careers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Age of Fact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Information, skills of reason, and the sociological imagination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It helps them to use information and develop reason to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Personal uneasiness of individuals focused on.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The result of a problem with structure overall, not just one person.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To enable us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To recognize the task and promise of the sociological imagination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What is the structure of this particular society as a whole?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Where does this society stand in human history?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What varieties of men and women now prevail in this society?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An absorbed realization of social relativity and transformative power of history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The distinction between the 'personal troubles of milieu' and the 'public issues of social structure'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Within the individual as a biographical entity and the scope of his immediate milieu.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The social setting that is directly open to his personal experience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because they occur when values cherished by an individual are felt to be threatened.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Matters that transcend the local environments of the individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because an issue occurs when some value cherished by publics is felt to be threatened.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A crisis in institutional arrangements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By considering political and economic issues that affect innumerable milieux.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When people cherish some set of values and do not feel any threat to them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When they cherish values but feel them to be threatened.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When they are neither aware of any cherished values nor experience any threat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When it seems to involve all their values.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When they are unaware of any cherished values, but still are very much aware of a threat.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>From the external realm of economics to the quality of individual life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it is a pathetic attempt to avoid the large issues and problems of modern society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Recognition of the crisis of ambition that is part of the very career of men in the incorporated economy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unruly forces of contemporary society itself.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it has alienating methods of production and enveloping techniques of political domination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To make clear the elements of contemporary uneasiness and indifference.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because they have the essential task of making clear the elements of contemporary uneasiness and indifference.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of groups and group interactions, societies and social interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact with one another, and who share a common culture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An examination of small-scale patterns of society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An examination of large-scale patterns of society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An awareness of the relationship between a person's behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped their choices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ibn Khaldun.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mary Wollstonecraft.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The term sociology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The application of the scientific approach to the social world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Harriet Martineau.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Karl Marx.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Micro-level approaches and topics such as social conflict and individual identity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first European department of sociology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand in a deep way.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach that seeks to understand human behavior through in-depth interviews and analysis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The bonds that unite the members of a social group.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attempts to explain large-scale relationships and fundamental questions of society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A paradigm focusing on parts that work together to ensure social survival.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Patterns of beliefs and behaviors focused on meeting social needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A healthy society where all parts work together to maintain stability.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social processes that have undesirable consequences for society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It cannot adequately explain social change and dysfunctions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A paradigm focusing on inequalities contributing to social differences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attempts to address structural issues causing inequality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is too focused on conflict and differences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A paradigm that suggests we experience the world through a symbolic sense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Erving Goffman's term for studying social interaction in terms of theatrical performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An extension of symbolic interaction theory proposing that reality is cognitively constructed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Difficulty of remaining objective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Herbert Blumer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>C. Wright Mills.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In opposition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Seeing 'the general in the particular'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The relatively permanent components of our social environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Are the person's fault.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Being able to use arguments or evidence in thinking.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Societal norms are in conflict or entirely absent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cohesion in traditional societies due to similarity.</p> Signup and view all the answers