CH2

Question 1

______ are statements or explainations regarding why to or more facts are related to each other and the connection between the two facts.

Answer 1

Theory

Question 2

______ are reasonable, educated guesses about how variables are related to each other including causal relationships.

Answer 2

Hypotheses

Question 3

______ are concepts that can vary in frequency or occurence from one time, place, or preson to another.

Answer 3

Variables

Question 4

The ______ ____ is used when sociologist want to gather information directly from a number of people regarding how they think or feel or what they do.

Answer 4

Survey Method

Question 5

______ is a relationship between variables with change in one variable associaed with change in another.

Answer 5

Correlation

Question 6

_____-__-_____ ________ occur when the is a relationship between variables so that one variable stimulates a change in another but not necessarily the other way around.

Answer 6

Cause and effect relationship

Question 7

_____ ________ occur when there is no causal relationship between the independent and dependent variables, but they vary together, often due to a third variable affecting both of them

Answer 7

Spurious Relationship

Question 8

_____ are steps used by researchers to eliminate all variables except those related to he hypothesis.

Answer 8

Controls

Question 9

_____ _____ involve systematic, planned observation and recording of interactions or human behavior in natural settings.

Answer 9

Observation Studies

Question 10

In ______, all variables except te one being studied are controlled.

Answer 10

Experimens

Question 11

________ _____ is the group exposed to the variable and is being tested.
____ ____ is not exposed to variable.

Answer 11

Experimental Group

Control Group

Question 12

_______ _____ refer to ue of materials that already exist

______ ______ uses existing data that has been collected by other sources.

Answer 12

Existing Sources

Secondary Analysis

Question 13

______ ______ is the systematic categorization and recording of informatino from written or recorded sources.

Answer 13

Content Analysis

Question 14

______ is the utilization of two or more methods of data collection to enhance the amount and type of data for analysis.

Answer 14

Triangulation.

Question 15

A ______ is a group of systematically chosen people in suvey research who represent a much larger group.

Answer 15

Sample

Question 16

Comte believed that _____ ____ are aspects of society that give rise to order, and ____ ___ are change and evolution in society.

Answer 16

Social Statics

Social Dynamics

Question 17

______ ____ is fact fining for science’s sake.

Answer 17

Scientific Sociology

Question 18

_____ ____ emphasizes the way humans create and interpret meaning.

Answer 18

Humanistic Sociolgy

Question 19

______ ______ strive to better understand how society operates and to make practical use of their findings.

Answer 19

Public Sociologists

Question 20

A _____ _____ is a basic view of society that guides sociologists’ ideas and research. They are the broadest theories in sociology.

Answer 20

Theoretical Perspectives

Question 21

______ _____ ______ sees humans as active agents who create shared meanings of events and symbols and then interact on the basis of those meanings.
They make use of ____, actions or objects that represent something else and therefor have meaning beyond their own existence.

Answer 21

Symbolic Interaction Perspective

Question 22

The ____ ____ _______ states that humans are fundamentally concerned with self-interests main rational decisions based on weighing costs and rewards of the projected outcome.

Answer 22

Rational Choice Perspective

Question 23

_____-____ _______ assumes that all parts of the social structure, the culture, and social processes work together to make the whole society run smoothly and harmoniously.

Answer 23

Structural-Functional Perspective

Question 24

______ _____ are the planned outcomes of social organization.
_____ ____ are unplanned consequences of actions or of social structures.
______ are actions that undermine the stability or equilibrium of society.

Answer 24

Manifest Functions
Latent Functions
Dysfunctions

Question 25

____ ____ contends that conflict is inevitable in any group or society.

Answer 25

Conflict Perspective

Question 26

_____ ____ critiques the hierarchical power structures, which treat women and other minorities unfairly.

Answer 26

Feminist Perspective

Question 27

______ is the idea of multiple identities (race, class, gender).

Answer 27

Intersectionality