Lecture Ideas Flashcards
Durkheim research
On who’s most likely to kill themselves.
Sociologists look at the
Why in the familiar
Social marginality
Being excluded from social activity as an outsider.
People only care when society
Fails them
A good group name says ____ __ ___ we are and don’t you ____ you could __ ____ of __
This is who we are
Wish
Be one
Us
Social stratification
Hierarchy in society
Theoretical paradigm or theoretical perspective
Fundamental assumptions about society that guide thinking and research
Structural functional paradigm
Assumes that society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote stability.
Social conflict paradigm
Assumes that society is a complex system characterized by inequality and conflict that continuously generate social change.
Social interaction paradigm
Assumes that society is continuously recreated as human beings construct reality through interaction.
Operationalizing a variable
Specifying exactly what is to be measured.
Standard deviation
Step 1: find the deviations by subtracting the mean from the scores(6-8) then square the result
Step 2: add up squared deviations
Step 3: divide by number of added deviations
Step 4: square root result
Ethnography
Describes participant observation of human behavior.
Instincts
Inherited biologically determined behavior
Machiavellian
Cunning deceitful
Tabula rosa
Blank slate. The theory that people are born as blank slates
Double bind
When both complying with a request and refusing a request will cause a problem.
Hegals dialectic process
- Thesis: the idea that begins the dialectic process
- Antithesis: the contradiction contained in a thesis
- Synthesis: the constant struggle between ideas and their opposites produces a Changed state
Synthesis becomes new thesis
Marxs 4 stages of dad kapital
- Feudal mercantilism: in sellable land
- Capitalism: private factory ownership
- Socialism: state factory ownership
- Communism: ownership unnecessary
