Pre midterm 1 Flashcards
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Who is the audience of sociology
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- Professional Sociology: highly specific, aim
of applying it to a particular problem or
intellectual question (e.g. in criminology,
demography)
2.Critical Sociology: considered to be the
‘conscience of professional sociology’ –
pointed questions; bring about social change
3.Policy Sociology: generates sociological data
to be used in the development of social
policy for governments or corporations
4.Public Sociology: make sociology accessible
to the public (address an audience outside of
the discipline; clear writing
Key distinctions of CDN Sociology
1.French/English relations
2. Development of the CDN west
3. Class-Ethnicity
4. Sociology-anthropology
What is research methodology
A system of methods a researcher uses to gather data on a particular question
What did Auguste Comte think about researchers
They weren’t biased
Who challenged the notion of the objective outsider perspective and implemented the relationship between the two perspectives
Dorothy Smith and Michel Foucault
What is the insider voice
The insider voice of the subject being studied provides
information that comes from their subjective experience
What is the outsider perspective
The objective outsider “experts” use their privilege to decide
over the authenticity of the insider perspective, this is where vital information gets lost
Ethnography
Descibes and explains the behaviour, values, beliefs, and practices of participants in a given cultural setting
Groups studied through
Fieldwork (naturalism)
How did Mitchell Dunier use ethnology
Became apart of the group of black men living on the street
How did Loic Wacquant use ethnography
By becoming a boxer and viewing the environment surrounding it
What is instituational Ethnography
The social relations that structure peoples everyday lives
every institution has two sides, each associated with a different kind of data:
Ruling interest and experiental data
Ruling interests are the interests of the
organization, particularly its administration,
and/or the interests of those who hold
power in society. Written rules and
practices (texts) provide the data, and Experiential data come from informants: anyone who works for the organization,
outside of management
What is a case study
Research design that takes as its subject a single case or a few selected examples of a social entity
Avery Cockwell
What case study did Hilary Levey Friedman preform and what did she find
Studied child beauty pageants and found that mothers though the pageants would believe that this will ensure that they will be successful later in life
What is narrative research
listens to peoples stories and conclusions were found
What is content analysis
studying a set of cultural artifacts, (e.g. newspaper
articles, adverts, events, texts, tweets) by systematically counting them and then interpreting the themes they reflect.
What is discourse analyis
A way we explore and analyze conversation, written, and cultural/politcal events
What are the two types of discourse analysis
- Analyzing discourse as the term is commonly
understood (i.e. as a conversation, a speech, or
a written text)
2.Considers a broader definition of
“text,” going beyond individual works
and authors to include larger fields
What is Geneology
discourse analysis that traces the
origin and history of contemporary discourses
e.g. Development, Sexuality, Mental health
What is discourse analysis
conceptual framework with its own internal logic and underlying assumptions that are generally recognizable
A dominant discourse of gender often positions women as gentle and men as active heroes
Content analyis
Counting and analyzing data
Quantatitative research
Social elements that can be counted or measured
Qualitative research
Characteristics that cannot be counted or measured
But, can find patterns in governing systems
