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Sociology Final take two

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According to the text, a global perspective can inform us about the role materialism plays in our life (T/F)
T
The highest concentration of "low-income countries" is on which continent?
Africa
Sociology is defined as the science of cognitive and emotional states (T/F)
F
According to the text, socio-economic class does not impact women's definitions of expectations of a husband (T/F)
F
The text implies that we may not be as free to choose a spouse as we may think (T/F)
T
Those on the "margins of society" often think sociologically more so than those in the mainstream (T/F)
T
What are the three main components of Thomas More University's mission statement?
1) to contemplate the ultimate meaning of life
2)to understand one's place in the world
3) to know one's ethical and sociological responsibility to others.
Define liberal arts.
mental liberation
According to the text, what were two changes that were especially important to the development of sociology?
1) changes in the way people think, the Enlightenment era and the birth of science.
2) industrial revolution, the issues of poverty and sanitation were magnified.
comte's approach, known as ... is a scientific approach to knowledge based on "positive" facts as opposed to mere specualtion.
positivism
Comte believed that knowledge about society and social relations could be studied "scientifically" thus sociology was a legitimate science (T/F)
T
... is the term that refers to ideas that explain and/or predict something.
theory
What are the three main theoretical perspectives in sociology?
1) structural-functionalism
2) social-conflict theory
3) symbolic-interaction
according to the text, ... is the theoretical perspective that focuses on the micro level of analysis.
symbolic-interaction approach
in a sentence, how is Loewen's work an example of "critical sociology"?
Lies My Teacher Told Me is a book that shows how American history is bent to only show the positive characteristics of American society. But, it wrongly depicts the injustices that the United States did to other nations of people for example, Mexico during the Mexican American war. The US, stole a lot of land from the Mexicans but few know of this injustice.
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