Julia wants to study the effects that hours of screen time has on math grades. In this study, the hours of screen time represent the _______________________, while the math grades represent the ___________________.

Zoe is a college student who is having difficulty because she was unable to pay her tuition on time. She spent her morning at the college trying to make sure she didn't get dropped from her classes due to late payment of her tuition, causing her to be late for her morning class. She approached the instructor asking for understanding as she tries to balance multiple demands on her as a student including paying for her tuition and arriving to class on time. We could say that Zoe is experiencing:

According to Marx, capitalism is an economic system structured around the exploitation of the _________________ by the _____________________.

A ________________ sample refers to the chance that everyone in the population has an equal chance of being selected.

According to C. Wright Mills, matters that occur at the structural and institutional level are also known as:

According to Durkheim, social order and social stability were achieved in pre-industrial societies because of a shared_________________________.

When sociologists refer to the macro level of society, they are typically describing:

Which early sociologist is known for demonstrating, in his study of suicide, that people are a product of their social environments?

Mary is a researcher who is conducting a research study on the relationship between college students and the amount of time devoted to studying. She is going to conduct open-ended interviews. These research methods are examples of:

A ___________________ views social life as a continuous power struggle among competing social groups.

The goal of _________________ is to generate data that can be analyzed numerically, while the goal of ____________________ is to provide descriptive detail in order to understand the meaning of social relationships.

The difference between an ascribed status and an achieved status is that ascribed statuses describe:

Zoe is also a mother of a newborn. Last year, she found school challenging enough, but now, as a student and a mother, Zoe is finding it very hard to meet the demands placed on her from both of these statuses: mother AND student. She has to figure out how to meet the competing needs of being in class at a certain time as well as her baby's feeding needs which happen to fall at the exact same time as her scheduled class time. We could say that Zoe is experiencing:

The origins of sociology can be traced back to changes brought about due to the __________________________.

According to C. Wright Mills, the sociological imagination helps us to understand:

According to Merton, _____________________ functions have known or intended consequences while ____________________ functions have unintended consequences.

According to Durkheim, in industrializing societies, social order and social stability were achieved though ____________ and ______________.

The early sociologist who is best known for his studies pertaining to race, specifically his work on what he called ‘double consciousness’, is _____________________.

Sociologists who use the __________________ framework focus on how societal institutions, such as our governmental system and health care system, are necessary and essential components to any society and integral to maintaining social order.

All of the following are examples of social institutions, except:

According to Weber, capitalism arose alongside Protestantism, specifically Calvinism, because:

A sociologists who lives with a gang for several years in order to understand their daily activities would be using which research method?

Words, gestures, and even objects that stand in for things, and which symbolic interactionists focus on in their analyses, are called

_____________ coined the term sociology and felt that the scientific method could be applied to the social world to help us better understand social life (positivism).

The idea that we construct reality through our interactions and the meanings we attach to those interactions, experiences, and social structures, is referred to as the:

A group or society's definition of the way that a specific role ought to be played is referred to as:

Match the following Perspectives to the appropriate theorists in corresponding order. Functionalism: __________, Conflict: __________, Interactionist: __________.

Which classical theorist(s) is/are known to be critical of capitalism?

When sociologists refer to the micro level of society, they are typically describing: