Soc 101 Test #1 Flashcards
Viktor and Genie are both interesting to researchers because their development gives researches important information on the significance of ___________
a. Exercise during childhood
b. Neuroplasticity
c. The generalized other stage of Development
d. socialization
d. socialization
- Socialization is:
a. The learning of culture
b. A lifelong process
c. A process that leads to social reproduction
d. A time when children learn values, norms, and social practices of their society
e. All of the above
f. A and B
g. None of the above. It is all lies and slander.
e. All of the above
The viewpoint that culture in a given society is the “glue” that holds that society together and gives the society common norms and values which help maintain order is most like an explanation given by which type of theorist?
a. Conflict b. Symbolic Interactionist c. Functionalist d. Rational Choice Theory
c. Functionalist
norms and values create order. Focused more on society than on the individuals
- “No no don’t clump around the ball! Stay in your positions! Pass the ball! Stop picking the grass…” This short excerpt from one of Professor Redding’s last coaching experience shows the children are most likely in the _____________ stage while Professor Redding wishes they were in the __________ stage.
a. The Bumblebee Stage; The Beckham Stage
b. The Organized Games Stage; The Generalized Other Stage
c. The Play Stage; The Generalized Other Stage
d. The Play Stage; The Organized Games Stage
d. The play stage; The organized games stage.
They understand that they are all in the role of the soccer player but not really that they all should have different soccer player roles in relation to each other.
- If you want to research how groups dynamics shape behavior and specifically want to examine responses to the question “what is your favorite color” in a group of 3rd graders. What type of research method could you use to and why?
a. experiment; you can control for other variables and answer your specific research question
b. survey; you can ask more students and generalize your results
c. ethnography; you can collect a large quantity of data over a long period of time to inform a theory
a. experiment.
You want to know if there is a significant pattern related to pet ownership and personality type. You define your categories of people into two categories (extroverted and introverted) and then have an open ended question for what kind of pet people have.
What is the independent variable?
What is the dependent variable?
Independent Variable: Personality Type
Dependent Variable: Type of pet that a person has
(your personality came before the pet)
After some statistical analysis we see that there is a pattern in which introverts tend to be more likely have cats as pets. What can we say about the relationship then about introverts and cats?
a. No correlation b. Introvertism increases the probability of someone having a cat thus they are positive correlated. c. Introvertism increases the probability of someone having a cat thus they are negatively correlated. d. Introvertism causes someone to have a cat. e. Having a cat causes someone to become introverted thus they are positively correlated.
b. they are positively coorelated
What are the 7 steps in the research process?
define a research problem, literature review, define a hypothesis, research design, collect data, analyze data, publish and present research findings
If you formed a study group for sociology 101 that met once a week this would be considered a (primary or secondary group) with (weak or strong ) ties?
secondary group/weak ties
(remember: secondary groups usually are usually instrumental in some way, you form that group for a specific purpose to get a specific job done)
As the size of a group increases the pressure to conform (increases/decreases) and the social ties between people gets (stronger /weaker)
decreases/weaker
(Highest pressure to conform is within primary groups such as close family and friends. Example: you most likely care more about what your friends think about you than one of the 300 people in our sociology class)
Karl Marx:
What did he think was more important Individual or society?
What did he think kept social order power or norms/values?
What pattern of social relations was he most interested in?
Marx is a Conflict Theorist and is all about Society and Power.
The pattern of social relations that he was most interested in was “class”
(Remember other patterns of social relations would be gender, race/ethnicity, age, religion etc…)
Emile Durkheim:
What did he think was more important Individual or society?
What did he think kept social order power or norms/values?
What theory is he associated with?
Society and Norms/Values
He is associated with Functionalism.
Max Weber:
What did he think was more important Individual or society?
What did he think kept social order power or norms/values?
How does he differ from Karl Marx?
Society and Power
Weber thinks that in addition to class other patterns of social relations and social institutions really matter. He focused on bureaucracies and rationalization.
George Herbert Mead:
What did he think was more important Individual or society?
What did he think kept social order power or norms/values?
What theory is Mead associated with?
What process did Mead study?
Individual and Norms/Values
He is associated with Symbolic Interactionism
Mead studied the process of socialization which is the learning of language and the norms and values of a society.
The Sociological Imagination:
A. lets us invent social fiction literature by allowing us to think about different societies
B. allows us to link the individual or personal experience with larger public issues and society.
C. Refers to the importance of personal experiences and observations as the only scientific source of understanding broader events and structures
D. allows us to think how human behavior is linked to imagination
B. allows us to link the individual or personal experience with larger public issues and society.
(Think about the unemployment example. If one person is unemployed it is a personal problem but if 20% of the population is unemployed it is then a public or a social issues)
