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The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes believed that society reflected the basic goodness of human nature.

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According to sociologists,human behavior reflects our personal "free will."

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Sociology has its own department at the University of Toronto in 1902.

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Durkheim documented that categories of people with weaker social ties have lower suicide rates.

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The structural-functional,social-conflict,and symbolic-interaction approaches are three basic theoretical approaches in sociology.

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A global perspective has little in common with a sociological perspective.

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People with lower social standing are usually more likely to see the world sociologically than people who are well off.

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Among all academic disciplines,sociology is one of the youngest.

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The last of Comte's "three stages" is the metaphysical stage in which people know the world in terms of God's will

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Auguste Comte was a positivist who believed that there were laws of society,like the laws of physics that describe the operation of the natural world.

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As a discipline,sociology first took root in France,Germany,and England.

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The term "sociology" was coined by Emile Durkheim in 1898.

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C.Wright Mills claimed that,most of the time,people were responsible for their own problems.

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The symbolic-interaction approach is a micro-level orientation.

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The meaning people find in competitive sports would be one focus of a symbolic-interaction approach.

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The goal of the structural-functional approach is not simply to understand how society operates but to reduce social inequality.

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The focus of the symbolic-interaction approach is how society is divided by class,race,and gender.

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Erving Goffman pioneered macro-analysis.

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Gays and lesbians are aware of social patterns that heterosexual people rarely think about.

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In Canada,men have a higher suicide rate than women

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