Sociology Group Concepts: Identifying Incorrect Match
The question asks to identify the sociologist incorrectly matched with a sociological group concept. We need to evaluate the associations provided in each option.
Correct Sociologist-Group Pairings
- Sumner is correctly associated with the concepts of In-group and Out-group.
- Mead is correctly associated with the concept of Significant others, a key element in his theory of socialization.
- Cooley is famously linked with the distinction between Primary groups (like family and close friends) and Secondary groups (larger, more impersonal groups).
Incorrect Sociologist-Group Pairing
The pairing of Giddings with Horizontal and Vertical Groups is the incorrect match. While Franklin Giddings did develop classifications of groups, the terms "Horizontal and Vertical Groups" are not typically attributed to him as his core conceptual contribution in the way the other pairings are established facts in sociology.
Therefore, the incorrect match is Option C.
Important Questions from Basic Concepts and Institutions
"Being a white man, in short, was a very concrete manner of being-in-the-world, a way of taking hold of reality, language and thought."
What does the theorist signify by the term 'white man' here?
- Who among the following was the first sociologist to systematically study ‘White-Collar Crime’ ?
- Who has argued on the basis of empirical study that informal relations play an important role in bureaucracy ?
- Who has provided sociological explanations for the study of fertility in the form of social capillarity ?
- Women are classified according to the number of children born alive to them. This is referred to as :
