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Sociology is

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The systemic study of social behavior and human groups

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Which thinker introduced the concept of the sociological imagination?

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Wright Mills

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Emile Durkheim's research on suicide suggests that...

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suicide rates seemed to be higher in times of peace than in times of war and revolution.

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Max Weber taught his students that they should employ which of the following in their intellectual work?

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verstehen

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Robert Merton's contribution to sociology include...

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-Successfully combining theory and research

-Producing a theory that is one of the most frequently cited explanations of deviant behavior

-An attempt to bring macro-level and micro-level analyses together.

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Which sociologists made a major contribution to society through his in-depth studies of urban life, including both Blacks and Whites

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W. E. B DuBois

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In the late 19th century, before the term feminist view was even coined, the ideas behind this major theoretical approach appeared in the writings of...

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Ida Wells-Barnett

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Thinking of society as a living organism contributes to its survival is a reflection of which theoretical perspective?

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the functionalist perspective

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Karl Marx's view of the struggle between social classes inspired the contemporary

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conflict perspective

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Erving Goffman's dramaturgical approach, which postulates that people present certain aspects of their personalities while obscuring other aspects, is a derivative of what major theoretical perspective?

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the interactionist perspective

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While the findings of sociologists may at times seem like common sense, they differ because the rest on ________ analysis of facts

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systemic

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Within sociology, a(n) _______ is a set of statements that seeks to explain problems, actions, or behavior.

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theory

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In _______ _____'s hierarchy of the sciences, sociology was the "queen" and its practitioners were "scientist-priests"

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Auguste Comte

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In Society in America, originally published 1837, English scholar _______ _________ examined religion, politics, child rearing, and immigration in the young nation

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Harriet Martineau

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_______ _______ adapted Charles Darwin's evolutionary view of the "survival of the fittest" by arguing that it is "natural" that some people are rich while others are poor

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Herbert Spencer

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Sociologist Max Weber coined the term _____ ____ in referring to a construct or model that serves as a measuring rod against which actual cases can be evaluated.

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ideal type

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In The Communist Manifesto, ____ ____ and _________ ______ argued that the masses of people who have no resources other than their labor (the proletariat) should unite to fight for the overthrow of capitalist societies

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Karl Marx, Freidrich Engles

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____ _____, an early female sociologist, cofounded the famous Chicago settlement house called Hull House and also tried to establish a juvenile court system

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Jane Addams

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The university's role in certifying academic competence and excellence is an example of a(n) ________ function.

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manifest

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The ________ ____ draws on the work of Karl Marx and Freidrich Engles in that it often views women's subordination as inherent in capitalist societies.

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feminist view