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33 Cards in this Set
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- WHAT IS C. WRIGHT MILLS "THE PROMISE" ALL ABOUT (BE SPECIFIC)?
- DESCRIBE PERSONAL TROUBLES & PUBLIC ISSUES |
- assertions regarding the "sociological imagination"; people feel like strangers in their own society.
- it's understanding the social contents; can't solve social issues by personal troubles. |
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- WHO WAS AUGUSTE COMTE?
- WHAT DID HE BELIEVE IN? - WHAT WAS HIS GOAL? |
- father of sociology; first person to use science to study human society (scientific method)
- believed scientific revolution occured by all natural sciences coming together; bel. it played a role in the social netwrk. - his goal was to see how society can be better to serve human beings: by the sci. method = power tool and human society = problem solving. |
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- WHAT IS MACRO-LEVEL SOCIAL SCIENCE?
- SOCIAL STRUCTURE? - PEOPLE ARE ___ OF THEIR SOCIETY; WHAT EFFECTS PEOPLE'S BEHAVIORS? |
- mainstream sociological orientation.
- social institutions which is an important structure that make-up social structure. - opponent; social forces. |
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- SOCIAL PHYSICS?
- WHAT ARE THE TWO DIVISIONS OF SOCIAL PHYSICS AND EXPLAIN THEM. - WHAT IS ORGANIC ANAOLOGY? - peaceful social change thru...? |
- putting together a social plan..
- social statics = examine how society is structured & social dynamics = examine how society structure evolves "change" over time. - structure of society can be compare to the body of an animal (bel. organs should be compared) -scientific research |
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- WHAT DID KARL MARX SAY ABOUT THE WORK AND WITNESS OF THE POOR SOCIETY?
- WHAT DID HE THINK ABOUT THE WORKERS? - WHAT ELSE DID MARX BELIEVE IN? - EXPLAIN "CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS" AND THE "CLASSLESS SOCIETY" - WHAT KIND OF SOCIETY DID HE WANT? - WHAT DID HE THINK WAS THE ONLY MECHANISM FOR THE WORKERS GETTING THEIR WAY? |
- He said the Bourgeoise are the capatalists who own the factories and the Proletariat are the workers
- He thought they will eventually develop "class consciousness" and unite for a united front and confront the Bourgeoisie. - Believed revol. was inevitable for wealthy and working class to fight. - class con. had to deve. in the working class and raised up to the upper class "classless society" which means the workers had control and wanted no class distinction; everyone would work as much as they can. - one that would benefit everyone - violence. |
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- WHAT IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE DEALING WITH THINGS THRU A PERSONAL WAY OR A PUBLIC WAY?
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- MACRO-LEVEL SOCIETY.
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- WHAT DID HERBERT SPENCER DEVELOP?
- WHAT PHRASE DID HE COIN? - WHAT WAS THE TERM HE CAME UP WITH AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN? - WHERE IS HE FROM? - WHAT DID HE COMPARE HUMAN SOCIETY TO? - HOW DID HE VIEW HUMAN SOCIETY? |
- SOCIAL EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND SOCIAL DARWINISM.
- "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" - "EXTREME NONINTERVENTIONIST" = BELIEF NOT TO CHANGE SOCIAL STANDING THAT THE GOVT WAS DOING; BELIEVE IT CANNOT CHANGE THE SOCIAL STANDING BC THERE WILL BE A RIPPLE EFFECT LIKE IN NATURE. - HE'S A BRIT. - ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM - HE VIEWED IN A NATURAL ORDER; BEL PPL WERE BORN TO THEIR SOCIAL STANDING. |
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- WHAT IS EMILE DURKHEIM KNOWN FOR?
- WHAT ARE SOCIAL FACTS? - GROUPS ARE THE ___ OF ANALYSIS; ____ ___ IS THE KEY TO SOCIAL LIVING. - EMPIRICAL RESEARCH OR QUANTITIVE RESEARCH - EXPLAIN THE THEORY OF "COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE" - WHAT OTHER THEORY DID SHE HAVE? |
- ACTIVATING COMTE'S BLUEPRINT FOR SOCIOLOGY.
- DURKHEIM DEV. THIS; THE PROPER OF GRP LIFE THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY REASON/RESEARCH TO ACTIVITIES OF CHARACTERISTICS OF A PERSON. - UNITS; CULTURAL CONTEXT - COLLECTING DATA AND USE IT FOR STATISTICS; DRAWING A CONCLUSION THEN FORMING THOSE RESULTS. - IT'S ABOUT SOCIAL BONDING; A HUMAN SOCIETY HAS TO HAVE BONDS IN SOCIETY FOR IT TO BE A REAL HUMAN SOCIETY. THRE HAS TO BE A REAL SET OF VALUES AND BELIEFS THAT BOND PPL TOGETHER IN A TRUE SOCIETY. - THEORY ABOUT "SUICIDE" -- CATEGORIES OF PPL WITH LOW SOCIAL INTEGRATION WERE PRONE TO SUICIDE. |
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- WHO IS MAX WEBER?
- QUANTITIVE RESEARCH (WHAT DID MAX WEBER BEL ABOUT THAT?) - QUALITIVE RESEARCH? - WHAT IS THE CONCEPT MAX WEBER CAME UP WITH AND WHAT IS IT? |
- GERMAN SOCIOL. WHO EMPHASIZED UNDERSTANDING A SETTING FROM THE PT OF VIEW OF THE PPL IN IT.; CONTRIBUTOR TO SOCIOLOGY.
- HAD TO BE THE FOUNDATION; THERE IS SO MUCH MORE YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PPL JUST NOT BY NUMBERS. - IT'S OBSERVATIONAL - VERSTEHEN = SCIENTIFIC METHOD FOR DOING QUALITIVE RESEARCH MEANING IF YOU TRADED WELL ENOUGH YOU COME TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PPL YOU ARE OBSERVING (OFFICIAL DEF FOR QUAL. RES.) |
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- STRUCURAL FUNCTIONALISM
- WHAT WAS STRUC. FUNC. BASED ON? - SOCIAL STATUSES - SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS - EVOLUTIONARY SOCIAL CHANGE - BELIEVE SOCIAL SYSTEM NEEDS TO HAVE WHAT FOUR THINGS? |
- SOCIO.'S OLDEST THEORY AND DOMINANT TIL THE 60s; STRUCTURALLY ORIENTED THEORY ABOUT HUMAN SOCIETY.
- COMTE, DURKHEIM, & PARSONS. - ANY WAY ONE MIGHT CHARACT. SOCIAL DESBRIBE BY BEING A SET - THEY HAVE FUNCTIONS: STRUCTURES MAKE UP INSTITUTION/FUNCTION TO PERFORM. - NOT REVOLUTIONARY/FAST PASED; FUNCTIONALIST BELIEVES CHANGES CANNOT OCCUR AT A FAST PACE (RADICAL CHANGE) - STABILITY,ORDER, HARMONY, & EQUILIBRIUM. |
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- CONTEMPORARY CONFLICT THEORY
- SOCIAL CONFLICT THEORY - WHAT TYPES OF CONFLICT IN SOCIETY ARE THERE? |
- SOCIAL CHANGES BY RELATIVELY NONVIOLENT GRPS. "SOCIAL"
- DEVELOPED BY COSER & R. DAHNRENDORF; A FRAMEWORK FOR BLDG THEORY THAT SEES SOCIETY AS AN ARENA OF INEQUALITY THAT GENERATES CONFLICT AND CHANGE. - SOC |
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- SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
- QUALITIVE MICRO-LEVEL - "INTERACT IN GRP" |
-STUDY GRP SMALL ENOUGH TO OBSERVE
- COSER & DAHREUDART BEL. IN SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION/HUMAN BEINGS CAN COMMUNICATE THRU SPEAKING, WRITING, AND SIGNS; - HAVE THE PWR TO CHANGE THE IMPROPER/SOCIAL REALITY. |
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-WHO WAS DEVOTED TO SOCIAL AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONS?
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- COOLEY, MEAD, W.I. THOMAS, AND E. GUFFMAN
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- WHAT DID CHARLES H. COOLEY COME UP WITH?
- WHAT KIND OF PROCESS WAS IT? - NAME THE THREE PARTS. - WHAT IS THIS THEORY LIKE? |
- LOOKING GLASS SELF
- TRIAL AND ERROR - PPL SIZING OTHER UP, ASSESMENT IS POSTIVE/NEGATIVE, AND CHANGING IDEAS BASED ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT. - LOOKING AT URSELF THRU A LOOKING GLASS (MIRROR SELF-IMAGE OF URSELF) |
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PRINICPLES OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD:
-WHAT IS OBJECTIVITY? -ETHICAL NEUTRALITY? -ORGANIZED SKEPTICISM? |
- RESEARCHER CANNOT ALLOW HIS/HER EFFECT THE WAY OF THEIR RESEACHS.
- CERTAIN TYPES OF QUESTIONS THAT SCIENCE CAN ATTEMPT TO ANSWER; SCIENCE CAN TELL TRUE/FALSE BUT NOT DESIGN TO ANSWER MORAL QUESTONS. - SCIENFICIC IS VERY SKEPTICAL TO RESEARCH |
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CASUALITY:
- NAME THE THREE THINGS. |
- association, time prioroty (require the research that the cause vari. in time), and non spuriousness (have to show best to ability this is a true relations; not false ones.)
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- STATEMENT OF A RELATIONSHIP OF TWO OR MORE VARIABLES..GENERAL OR ABSTRACT LEVEL.
- concrete level or terms - which has a collective conscience (theory or hypo)? |
- theory
- hypothesis. - theory |
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- where do u measure the variable?
- what is the process in which the variable is in the hypothesis? |
- in hypothesis
- operationalization. |
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- what experiment did durkheim do?
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- believed that marriage was the degree of social bonding also same thing with religions.
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- the indep. variable is what letter, what direction, and what does it stand for?
- same questions for the DEPENDENT variable? |
- X, to the left, amount
- Y, to the right, earned. |
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- name the two types of relationships.
- which one has the levels of variables move in opposite directions? |
- positive/direct & negative/inverse
- negative/inverse relationships. |
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- what should the results mean..also what means the research should be consistent?
- what means your results are true? |
- reliability.
- validity. |
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- PEOPLE OR SUBJECTS YOU STUDY IS CALLED THE WHAT?
- RANDOMIZING PICK OF PPL OF SUBJECTS IS? - WHAT DOES THE STIMULUS CAUSE CHANGE IN? - WHAT IS THE CONTROL OF ANY EXTERNAL FACTORS? - WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN THE STIMULUS WAS NOT PRODUCING THE CHANGE EFFECT? |
- EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS.
- CONTROL GROUPS - THE DEP. VARIABLE. - ALSO THE STIMULUS. - HAWTHORNE EFFECT OR HALO EFFECT. |
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- IDENTIFY WHAT ASKING PEOPLE QUESTIONS, COLLECTING DATA, AND MAILING OUT QUESTIONAIRES HOPING PPL WILL RESPOND TO Q'S IS CALED.
- WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE. - SMALL AMOUNT OF GRP IS CALLED? - WHAT DOES THE POPULATION DO? - WHAT WAS THE 1936 "LITERARY DIGEST"? - WHAT WENT WRONG/? |
- SURVEY RESEARCH.
- POLITICAL POLLS - A SAMPLE - IT GENERALIZES YOUR INFO - EARLIEST POLLS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND CANDS. GOT LARGE SAMPLE AND PUBLISHED THAT AL LANDON WOULD WIN - THEIR SAMPLE WAS RICH REPUB NOT BOTH (POOR, WORKING, NO JOBS, DEMOS) |
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- SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING/ LIST OF TOTAL POP IS CALLED?
- JUDGEMENTAL OR PURPOSIVE SAMPLING IS CALLED? |
- PROBABILITY SAMPLING
- NONPROB SAMP. |
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- QUALITIVE MICROLEVEL RES.; BASIC TYPE OF OBSERV. IS CALLED?
- WHAT IS WITNESSING A NATURALLY OCCURED EVENT CALLED? - WHAT HAPPENS TO ONE CASE STUDIES? - INSTEAD WHAT IS A GOOD WAY FOR RES? |
- OBSERVATIONAL RESE.
- ONE SHOT CASE STUDY - CHAOS OCCURS. - LONG TERM OBSERV. |
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- LONG TERM OBSERV STUDIES IS ALSO CALLED?
- THE RES. IS NOT PART. IN GRPS NOT BE ABLE TO ACTS JUST OBS. IS? - WHAT IS THE ETHNIC ISSUE AND WHAT DOES IT RELATE TO? |
- PARTICIPANT OBS.
- NONPARTICIPANT OBS. - MIGHT HURT THE PPL U STUDY AND IT'S APART OF NONPART. STUDY |
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- WHAT WAS THE MILGRAM STUDY?
- WHAT DID MILGRAM BEL? |
- GERMAN GOV. WAS EXP. A BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD; THERE WAS AN F-TYPE PERSONALITY; INSTRUCTURE WOULD SHOCK THE PPL THAT GOT ANS WRONG IN THE CONTROL RM...TRICK WAS INSTR. BEL. THEY WERE HURTING OTHERS.
- BELIEVED PPL WOULDNT' FOLLOW AUTH. IF IT INTERFERED WITH THEIR MORALS SO HE DID AN EXPERIMENT |
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- WHAT WAS THE HUMPRIES T HOUSE TRADE?
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- WAS AN EXP. WITH HOMOS..FOUND OUT MARRIED GUYS MEET UP WITH OTHER GUYS TO SLUT IT UP; HUMPR. FOUND OUT WHERE MEN LIVED AND ASKED WIFE Q'S SUCH AS WHERE HE WENT TO SCHOOL, WHAT HIS CAREER WAS, ETC...
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- WHAT WAS THE E. GOFFMAN STUDY?
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- DID AN EXP. IN MENTAL INSTI...THERE'S ABUSE AND NEGLEGENCE IN INST...SAME WITH NURSING HMS.
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- WHICH KIND OF RESEARCH INVOVLES NOT BOTHERING ANYONE.
* ANALYIZING THE CONTENT OF ANYTHING WRITTEN OR RECORDED USING A BROAD OF HISTORICAL PERIODS IS... * SIMPLY DATA SOME ELSE HAVE COLLECTED; RESER. CAN CHECK IT OUT AT AN ARCHIVAL LIB IS? |
- UNOBTRUSIVE RES.
*CONTENT ANALYSIS * HISTORICAL ARCHIVAL DATA..VERY LONG PROCESS. |
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- WHAT IS AN ELEMENT OF EVERY HUMAN CULTURE; TRAITS THAT ARE PART OF KNOWN CUTURE?
- WHAT IS A PERSONAL DISORIENTAITON WHEN EXPERIENCING AN UMFAMILIAR WAY OF LIFE? - WHAT IS THE ATTITUDE OF PPL BY THINKING THEIR CULTURE IS THE ONLY RT WAY OF LIVING AND JUDGING OTHERS BY THEIR STANDARDS? -WHAT ARE THE 4 NORMS OF CULTURE? - NORAMS THAT ARE WIDELY OBSERVED AND HAVE GREAT MORAL SIGNIFICANCE IS? - NORMS FOR ROUTINE OR CASUAL INTERACTION? - FORMALIZE OR CODIFIY? - REPRESENTS TERRIBLE ACTS? - MADE OF SOCIETY VALUES COLLECTIVE CONCEPTION OF SOCIETY IS CALLED? - WHAT ARE THE REFLECTIONS OF OUR VALUES? - WHERE IS THERE TENSION B/T? |
- CULTURAL UNIVERSALS
- CULTURE SHOCK. - ETHONOCENTRISM - MORES, LAWS, FOLKWAY, TABOOS.. - MORES - FOLKWAYS - LAWS - TABOO - COGNITIVE CULTURE - NORMS - REAL/IDEAL BEHAVIORS AND CHANGING VALUES AND NORMS |
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- THE PRACTICE OF EVALUATING A CULTURE BY ITS OWN STANDARDS
- CULTURAL PATTERNS THAT SET APART SOME SEGMENT OF A SOCIETY'S POPUL. (EX: PPL WHO ENJOY RAP, FASHION) - CULTURAL PATTERNS THAT STRONGLY OPPOSE THOSE WIDELY ACCEPTED WITHIN A SOCIETY (EX HIPPIES) |
- CULTURAL RELATIVISM
- SUBCULTURE - COUNTERCULTURE |