Theory and Perspectives

A. sexuality
B. discipline
C. discourse
D. all of the these

A. standard accounts of the origins of sociology focus on the industrial and French revolutions giving no weight to the significance of colonialism in shaping modern societies
B. the sociological gaze is Eurocentric failing to incorporate the experience of formerly colonized societies
C. sociology has described Western societies as developed or modem in opposition to the notion of non-Western societies as pre-modern traditional inferiors
D. the sociological imagination has always encouraged and enabled the voices of people across the world to be heard in sociological theorizing

A. a theory that emphasizes the positive aspects of society
B. the precise scientific study of observable phenomena
C. a theory that posits difficult s and sets out to answer them
D. an unscientific set of laws about social progress

A. ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
B. the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
C. data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
D. ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world

A. affectual
B. affective
C. effective
D. infected

A. taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism
B. studying society from the perspective of women
C. the recognition of difference and diversity in women’s lives
D. a tendency to ignore the gendered nature of knowledge

A. Durkheim
B. Blumer
C. Lemert
D. Berger
E. Mills

A. wealthy aristocrats
B. sixteenth-century population growth
C. industrialization
D. developments in transportation and communication
E. international migration

A. the United States
B. Canada
C. Europe
D. Australia

A. Comte
B. Rousseau
C. Mead
D. Locke
E. Durkheim