Posted: March 4th, 2016

Inherited genetic structure

1. which variable do sociologists emphasize the most as being the determining motivation for our thinking and behavior?
Random chance events
Natural born in instincts
Inherited genetic structure
Ones society and social location

2. The first goal of each scientific discipline is to:
Explain why something happens
Make generalizations why things happen
Look for patterns when things happen
Predict what will happen in the future

3. A sociological theory concerned with the issues of who benefits from particular social arrangements and how the powerful maintain their positions is known as:
Coercion theory
Conflict theory
Functionalism
Symbolic interactionism

4. Which of the following sociological perspectives views society as a system of highly interrelated structures or parts that operated together harmoniously?
Conflict
Symbolic interactionism
Societalism
Functionalism