Chapter 1 Flashcards
__________offers a perspective—a view of the world—that stresses the social experiences of people
as the underlying cause of their behavior.
A. Sociology
B. Applied Sociology
C.Basic (or pure) Sociology
A. Sociology
________ _________the use of sociology to solve problems—from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution.
A. Sociology
B. Applied Sociology
C.Basic (or pure) Sociology
B. Applied Sociology
Sociologists use six research Methods or research Designs. They are:
A. Selecting a topic, defining the problem,
reviewing the literature, formulating a hypothesis, choosing a research method, collecting
B. Symbolic interaction-ism, functional analysis, micro-level analysis, nonverbal interaction, closed-ended questions and open-ended questions:
C. Survey’s, Participant Observations, Secondary Analysis, Documents, Experiments and Unobtrusive Measures
C. Survey’s, Participant Observations, Secondary Analysis, Documents, Experiments and Unobtrusive Measures
*________ is a statement about how facts are related to one another.
Sociologists use three primary theoretical frameworks:
1. _______ Interactionism
2. Functional ________
3. ______ Theory
Theory - Symbolic - Analysis - Conflict
A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as being composed of groups
competing for scarce resources:
A. Conflict Theory
B. Symbolic Interactionism
C. Functional Analysis
A. Conflict Theory
*Theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society’s equilibrium;
A. Conflict Theory
B. Symbolic Interactionism
C. Functional Analysis
C. Functional Analysis
Sociological research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups.
A. Sociology
B. Applied Sociology
C. Basic (or pure) Sociology
C. Basic (or pure) Sociology
Marx’s Term for the struggle between capitalists and workers:
A. positivism
B. class conflict
C. social location
D. social integration
B. class conflict
*A theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another:
A. Conflict Theory
B. Symbolic Interactionism
C. Functional Analysis
B. Symbolic Interactionism
The application of the scientific method to the social world:
A. positivism
B. class conflict
C. social location
D. social integration
A. positivism
The group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society:
A. positivism
B. class conflict
C. social location
D. social integration
C. social location
The degree to which people feel a part of social groups:
A. positivism
B. class conflict
C. social location
D. social integration
D. social integration
The scientific study of society and human behavior:
A. Research Design or Method B. Fieldwork C. Sociology D. Society E. Social Interaction
C. Sociology
What people do when they are in one another’s presence:
A. Research Design or Method B. Participant Observation/Fieldwork C. Sociology D. Society E. Social Interaction
E. Social Interaction
Research in which the researcher participates in a research setting while observing what is happening in that setting:
A. Research Design or Method B. Participant Observation/Fieldwork C. Sociology D. Society E. Social Interaction
B. Participant Observation/Fieldwork
One of six procedures sociologists use to collect data: surveys,participant observation, secondary analysis, documents, experiments, and unobtrusive measures:
A. Research Design or Method B. Participant Observation/Fieldwork C. Sociology D. Society E. Social Interaction
A. Research Design or Method
*People who share a culture and a territory:
A. Research Design or Method B. Participant Observation/Fieldwork C. Sociology D. Society E. Social Interaction
D. Society
Questions followed by a list of possible answers to be selected by the respondent:
A.Closed Ended Questions
B. Open Ended Questions
C. Non-verbal Interaction
D. Respondents
A.Closed Ended Questions
Questions that respondents are able to answer in their own words:
A.Closed Ended Questions
B. Open Ended Questions
C. Non-verbal Interaction
D. Respondents
B. Open Ended Questions
People who respond to a survey, either in interviews or by self-administered questionnaires:
A.Closed Ended Questions
B. Open Ended Questions
C. Non-verbal Interaction
D. Respondents
D. Respondents
Communication without words through gestures, space, silence, and so on:
A.Closed Ended Questions
B. Open Ended Questions
C. Non-verbal Interaction
D. Respondents
C. Non-verbal Interaction
Repeating a study in order to test its findings:
A. Values
B Value Free
C Replication
D Reliability
C Replication
The view that a sociologist’s personal values or biases should not influence social research:
A. Values
B Value Free
C Replication
D Reliability
B Value Free
the extent to which data produces consistent results:
A. Values
B Value Free
C Replication
D Reliability
D Reliability
The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly:
A. Values
B Value Free
C Replication
D Reliability
A. Values
A factor that is changed by an independent variable:
A. Unobtrusive Measures
B. Variables
C. Dependent Variables
D. Independent Variables
C. Dependent Variables
Ways of observing people who do not know they are being studied:
A. Unobtrusive Measures
B. Variables
C. Dependent Variables
D. Independent Variables
A. Unobtrusive Measures
A factor that causes a change in another variable, called the dependent variable:
A. Unobtrusive Measures
B. Variables
C. Dependent Variables
D. Independent Variables
D. Independent Variables
*Factors thought to be significant for behavior, which vary from one case to another:
A. Unobtrusive Measures
B. Variables
C. Dependent Variables
D. Independent Variables
B. Variables
*An intended outcome or consequence that helps keep society in equilibrium is referred to as:
A. dysfunctional
B. manifest
C. symbolic
D. latent
B. manifest
- Ethics in sociological research:
A. forbids the falsification of results.
B. condemns plagiarism.
C. requires that sociologists protect the anonymity of people who provide information.
D. all of the above
D. all of the above
Using objective, systematic observations to test theories is the _______ method.
scientific
Auguste ______ is credited as the _______ of Sociology.
Comte - founder
_______ Spencer applied ______ Darwinism and coined the term “ ________ of the fittest”.
Herbert - social - survival
Karl _____ believed that the roots of human misery lay in Class Conflict between the ________ or capitalists and the _______ or exploited worker.
Marx - bourgeoisie - proletarist
Emile ________ identified social _________, the degree to which people are _____ to their social _____.
Durkheim - integration - tied - group
____ Weber’s ______ Ethic argued that religion was the key factor in the rise of ________.
Max - Protestant - capitalism
