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3) The concept of "survival of the fittest" was coined by Herbert Spencer, the father of the philosophical view called social Darwinism.
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4) Marxism and communism are identical political ideologies with both leading to a classless society.
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5) Max Weber referred to the self-denying approach to life as the Protestant ethic.
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6) Sociology first took root as an academic discipline in the United States at the University of California at Berkeley.
Page Ref: 97) As a part of his studies in sociology, W. E. B. DuBois attended lectures by Max Weber at the University of Berlin.
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8) Talcott Parsons is credited with being one of the major social reformers and social activists of the 1940s which led to a widespread acceptance of sociology as a social science in America.
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9) Pure, basic, and applied sociology are all terms that mean virtually the same thing which is the application of the scientific method to the social world.
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10) W. E. B. DuBois and Jane Addams are two early sociologists who would be most appropriately classified as applied sociologists.
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11) Research aimed at learning more about some behavior is called basic sociology.
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12) In functional analysis how the parts of a society fit together to make the whole refers to function.
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13) Robert Merton and Emile Durkheim were both advocates of the concept of structural functionalism that views society as being composed of many interrelated parts.
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14) Individuals becoming homeless because of welfare reform legislation that cuts all payments to non-working Americans after two years would be classified as a latent dysfunction of the legislation.
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15) Symbolic interactionism and structural functionalism are both theoretical perspectives relying on macro level analysis.
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16) Common sense is the most logical guide on which to base sociological research.
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17) In a large series of scores, the mode is the most representative measure of the average score.
Page Ref: 2418) Although sociological research should be value free, undesirable results should be discarded when they are contrary to the hypothesis.
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When using unobtrusive measures the researcher observes the behavior of people without the subjects'
knowledge they are being studied.
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20) Repeating a study by other researchers to compare results is referred to as replication.
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1)
What is the scientific method?

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