Soc 112 Module 2 & 3

Question 1

Research Methology

Answer 1

methods used to gather data, fact and theory based

Question 2

Scientific method

Answer 2

series of steps for data

Question 3

Qualitative Research

Answer 3

gaining and understanding how an person sees the world

Question 4

Ethnography

Answer 4

categories members of given culture use to intepert their world

Question 5

Institutional Ethnography

Answer 5

Everyday institutions has 2 sides with 2 different sets of data

Question 6

Narratives

Answer 6

stories people tell about themselves

Question 7

Content analysis

Answer 7

involves studying cultural artifacts

Question 8

Discourse analysis

Answer 8

conversation, texts, individual words

Question 9

Genealogy

Answer 9

method examining history or discourse

Question 10

Critical Thinking & Statistics

Answer 10

statistics can be flawed

Question 11

Research Ethics

Answer 11

respect for research subjects

Question 12

Informed Consent

Answer 12

Participants indicate their understanding and acceptance of the research conditions

Question 13

Culture

Answer 13

behaviors, beliefs, knowledge, practices, values, concrete materials including buildings, tools and sacred items.

Question 14

Dominant Culture

Answer 14

Impose values, language and ways of behaving and interpenetrating behavior on society.

Question 15

Dominants

Answer 15

closely linked with the cultural mainstream

Question 16

Countercultures

Answer 16

minority that feel the power of the dominant culture

Question 17

Minority

Answer 17

fall outside the cultural mainstream

Question 18

Subcultures

Answer 18

minority cultures that differ in some way from the dominant culture but do not directly oppose it

Question 19

High Culture

Answer 19

culture is elite , a distinct minority (the arts)

Question 20

Popular Culture

Answer 20

culture of the majority, especially those who have no power

Question 21

Social Capital

Answer 21

economic resources garnered from human interactions

Question 22

Mass Culture

Answer 22

people who have little or no agency in the culture they consume

Question 23

Norms

Answer 23

rules or standards of behavior that are expected of a group, society or culture

Question 24

Sanctions

Answer 24

rewards and punishment in response to a behavior

Question 25

Pos Sanctions

Answer 25

rewards ( doing the right thing )

Question 26

Neg sanctions

Answer 26

violated a norm

Question 27

Folkways

Answer 27

govern day to day matters ( we should not violate )

Question 28

Mores

Answer 28

must not violate, serious sanctions ( rape, stealing )

Question 29

Taboos

Answer 29

norms deeply ingrained in us, mention of it is disgust like ( incest, child pornography)

Question 30

Symbols

Answer 30

cultural items that hold significance for a culture or subculture

Question 31

Values

Answer 31

standards used by cultures to describe qualities ( goodness, beauty)

Question 32

Ideal Culture

Answer 32

is what people believe in

Question 33

Actual Culture

Answer 33

what really exsists

Question 34

Ethnocentrism

Answer 34

someone holds one culture as being a standard culture for someone else ( white people with the FN )

Question 35

Euro centrism

Answer 35

addressing others or an audience who want to be apart of that position

Question 36

Cultural Globalization

Answer 36

intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe.

Question 37

Cultural Relativism

Answer 37

understand an aspect of another culture within proper social, historical and environmental context

Question 38

Presentism

Answer 38

judge figures of the past within their own time, but instead we judge people by today standards ( sir john a MacDonald)

Question 39

Sociolingusitics

Answer 39

studying of language as apart of culture

Question 40

Dialect

Answer 40

variety of language that differs from others in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar

Question 41

Linguistic Determinism

Answer 41

the way we view and understand the world is shaped by the language we speak.