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Questions

1. Within macro sociological studies, researchers use sociological theory to explain how social structures impact the organization of our social world.

True

False

2. Within micro sociological studies, researchers use sociological theory to explain how individual and interpersonal dynamics are shaped by the constraining factors of particular social institutions.

True

False

3. What is the purpose of sociological theory?

All of these

to critically examine and explain the social world

to make sociology majors cry

to promote only positivist ideas abut the social world

4. Which theorist discussed in this chapter considered sociology to be the study of humanity as biology is the study of the natural world?

Comte

Dilthey

Marx

de Tocqueville

5. ________ refers to the idea that sociology can make scientific observations on the subject matter of humanity with the same objectivity that is displayed within natural sciences.

interpretive understanding

verstehen

positivist sociology

theoretical immersion

6. Which sociological research method would researchers use if they wanted to take an empathetic understanding of a social phenomenon?

archival work

ethnographic research

in-depth interviews

all of these

7. Who was the first sociological theorist to advocate for researcher's to be more aware of their own social context and values when studying social groups they are not members of so that they do not introduce their own bias into the scholarship?

Saint-Simon

Durkheim

Martineau

Comte

8. You use theory to help you recognize social patterns that create and reinforce our social world in a process is called __________________?

interpretative understanding

rationality

theoretical immersion

emancipatory knowledge

9. Social structures needed to be understood as social constructions (i.e., as human creations with the possibility of change) for sociology to develop as a field of study. This changed happened, in part, due to which of the following?

the enlightenment

U.S. declaration of independence

All of these

the French revolution