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What is the scientific study of social behavior and human groups?
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Sociology
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Sociology focuses on how ____ are established and changed?
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Societies
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Who is associated with the sociological imagination?
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C. Wright Mills
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What is sociological imagination?
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The awareness of the relationship between an individual and the whole society
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Why is the sociological imagination an empowering tool?
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It allows us to go beyond personal experience to understand broader public issues
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The body of knowledge obtained by methods based upon systematic observation is called what?
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Science
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Why is sociology considered a science?
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Sociologists engage in organized, systematic studies of phenomena in order to enhance understanding
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Astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology and physics study various aspects of the physical features of nature and are therefore considered...
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Natural sciences
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Which social science would
be interested in studying the economic impact of Hurricane
Katrina in the U.S. and throughout the world? |
Economists
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Which social science
emphasizes the influence that society has on people’s attitudes and behavior
and the ways in which people shape society?
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Sociology
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What is a construct, made up model
that serves as a measuring rod against which actual cases can be evaluated?
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Ideal type
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What is a set of statements that
seeks to explain problems, actions, or behavior. An effective theory may
have both explanatory and predictive power?
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Sociological theory
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What did Emile Durkheim's study of suicide relate suicide rates to?
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Group life, lack of cohesiveness of religious, social and occupational groups
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According to Emile Durkheim's study, ________ has a higher suicide rate that Catholics
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Protestants
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Who coined the term "sociology"?
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Auguste Comte
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