Items more likely to be on the exam are indicated with an asterisk
- sociological imagination
- individualism
- *social problem is defined as a condition that:
- harms
- controversial
- 2016 survey asking people what they considered to be serious social problems
- Wright Mills "personal troubles," social issues
- social-constructionist approach
- *example of a pattern that is harmful and generally defined as a social problem
- *view of gender inequality as a social problem compared to the past
- claims making
- politics
- social movement
- stages of a social movement
- coalescence
- formalization
- decline
- emergence
- *relationship between solving social problems and the ways in which society operates
- solving social problems and creating new problems
- cause of more than 1 million accidents in the United States in recent years
- *adopting a global perspective and poverty in the United States
- theory
- theoretical approach
- *structural-functional approach (functionalism)
- feminist approach
- *social-conflict approach (conflict theory)
- *symbolic-interaction approach (symbolic interactionism)
- social institutions.
- Herbert Spencer
- social disorganization theory
- manifest functions
- latent functions
- dysfunctions
- *Karl Marx and the operation of a capitalist economy
- Marx predicted that, over time, capitalism would what?
- the bourgeoisie
- proletarians
- multicultural theory
- feminism
- Lois Benjamin
- interview
- field research
- secondary analysis
- experiment
- *questionnaire, survey
- participant observation
- Max Weber
- *In evaluating any social policy, it is important to remember what?
- the political spectrum
- Liberal is derived from the Latin word for?
- If you were a conservative, you would look for guidance about how to live by keeping in mind the lessons of what?
- The term "radical" is derived from the Latin, meaning what?
- According to national surveys carried out in 2014, about what percentage of people consider themselves to be slightly liberal, liberal, or extremely liberal?
- *What positions would have the support of social liberals?
- *What positions would have the support of social conservatives?
- In general, economic liberals favor what?
- *dependent variable
- *positive and negative correlation
- causal relationship
- *well-done sociology
- *Katherine Beckett
- *sociological perspective
- *characteristics of social problems
- *Emile Durkheim
- *control variable
- *sociology and sociologists