Introduction to Sociology

Question 10 Answer: verstehen
This term, coined by Weber, is used to describe a deep understanding of an issue.
Question 11 Answer: harmful
The research showed that the harm done to Black schoolchildren was unconstitutional.
Question 12 Answer: to apply statistics, generate theories, and analyze policies
Data analysis often includes statistical analysis, theorization, and analysis.
Question 13 Answer: both monumental moments in people’s lives and common everyday life events.
Sociologists are concerned about the totality of human experience.
Question 14 Answer: It is a way of thinking that looks at personal troubles in the context of larger . . .
It is also described as an awareness of individual problems as being part of larger societal struggles.
Question 15 Answer: C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills published “The Sociological Imagination in 1959 and describes the sociological imagination throughout the book.
Questions 16 Answer: As a gathering and a rite of passage.
A “coming-of-age celebration” signifies a cultural milestone where people gather to mark a specific passage of time that has cultural significance.
Question 17 Answer: They are social issues related to standards of beauty that emphasize a slender . . .
The personal trouble, an eating disorder, is seen as part of societal beauty standards that are conveyed through agents of socialization such as the family, peers, the workplace, and mass media and therefore are public issues.
Question 18 Answer: theory
A theory seeks to explain social phenomena.
Question 19 Answer: Structural functional theory uses a macro-level orientation.
Structural functional theory and conflict theory examine social structures, which are macro processes.
Question 20 Answer: Rates of suicide are related to social factors such as religion, marital status, country of origin, parental status, and whether the country is at war or not.
Durkheim’s work as a functionalist is an example of the sociological imagination and connecting an individual issue to a larger societal issues.