chapter 2

Question 1

paradigm

Answer 1

framework for observing and understanding phenomena (neither true nor false)

Question 2

anomaly

Answer 2

events that do not fit within expected or standard patterns, challenge paradigms

Question 3

macrotheory

Answer 3

examines social structures, institutions, intersocietal interactions

Question 4

mesotheory

Answer 4

focus on organizations, communitites, social categories (bridge)

Question 5

microtheory

Answer 5

focus on individuals, small group interactions

Question 6

positivism

Answer 6

an approach that emphasizes scientific validation through observation and logical analysis

Question 7

conflict paradigm

Answer 7

views societal conflicts as a result of struggles for dominance or resistance to being dominated

Question 8

symbolic interactionism

Answer 8

individual interactions, how people form self-concepts based on their perceptions of other’s view

Question 9

ethnomethodology

Answer 9

approach focusing on people trying to make sense of their reality, like “social scientists”

Question 10

sctructural functionism

Answer 10

approach viewing society as an organism where each part contributes to the whole

Question 11

feminist standpoint theory

Answer 11

approach where women have unique insights into their social experiences that men lack

Question 12

critical race theory

Answer 12

critical of traditional academic and societal norms

Question 13

critical realism

Answer 13

argues that entities are real if they produce effects, even if they are not observable