Lecture 6

Question 1

The research process (basic)

Answer 1

1. question
2. Literature Review - What do we know so far on the topic
3. Hypothesis
4. Design your research
5. Conduct your research
6. Findings - Our contribution to
   revisit/add/challenge the current knowledge

Question 2

Research process (Interpretive framework)

Answer 2

Explore topic at hand through observation / interaction

expect learning through process

Question 3

What do we do when talking or observing is impossible? (Method of gathering data)

Answer 3

Examine available data (historical/content analysis)

Pro: Can’t observe history, less chance for reactivity

Con: Always will have someone’s bias (ex. journal author)

Question 4

Nature vs Nurture: debate
Real or hypothetical condition of human beings before or without political association

(Basically what are we like without nurture)

Hobbes

Rousseau

Answer 4

Hobbes: Society is held by strict rules
- W/o we kill each other

Rousseau: Before socialization we were free
- Society corrupts us

Question 5

What did Émile Durkheim think about Nature vs Nurture?

Answer 5

Anything that is beautiful about us was brought up with society (so nurture)

Question 6

What is Socialization?

Answer 6

Learning to live in society

• Not happening miraculously (it’s a process)

Question 7

What are Agents of Socialization?

Answer 7

People, groups, and organizations
teach us how to be an adequate
member of a given society

 Family
 School
 Peer groups
 Work
 Media

Question 8

What is “The Looking Glass Self”?

Answer 8

The three stages observed in the mirror self:
 You imagine how you appear to the other person.
 You imagine the other person’s judgment.
 You feel a sense of pride, happiness, guilt or shame

Question 9

What are the Four stages of role taking
George Herbert Mead?

Answer 9

 Children play the role of others and view
their actions through the eyes of those
close to them

 Preparatory stage – imitation

 Role play - playing “house” / “doctor”

 Social games - hockey

 Other generality - how do we appear to
others (not just to a significant other)

Question 10

What is Expressive order (Goffman)?

Answer 10

We all have to “save face to preserve the
interaction”

Question 11

What is a social order?

Answer 11

a consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates how persons pursue their objectives

Others may examine whether your presentation is consistent and triangulate your front and back stages

Question 12

What is status?

Answer 12

 Status describes a person’s social position relative to others
Can be ascribed or achieved

Question 13

What is role?

Answer 13

 Role describes expected behaviors associated with a status
 Possibility of role strain and role conflict

Question 14

Anderson Code of the street. Ethnography and Symbolic interaction. What are structural conditions (what do they contribute to)?

Answer 14

Lack of
employemnt, stigma of race,
crime, poverty

Question 15

In Anderson, what is social capital?

Answer 15

Prestige, value, role.