SOC Chapter 2

Question 1

Structural functionalist

Answer 1

Society works like a machine. Each component part works for the whole

Question 2

Social conflict

Answer 2

Inequality exists in society which creates conflict between special interests. The struggle for power and rights is the force for change.

Question 3

Symbolic Interactionism

Answer 3

We create society in everyday life just be the way we use and interpret symbols and imply meanings

Question 4

Deductive reasoning

Answer 4

starts from a broad theory about the social world but proceeds to break them down into more specific and testable hypotheses

Question 5

Inductive reasoning

Answer 5

: starts from specific data, such as interviews, observations, or field notes, that may focus on a single community or event and endeavors to identify larger patterns from which to derive more general theories

Question 6

Validity

Answer 6

The degree to which concepts and their measurements actually represent what they claim to represent.

Question 7

Reliability

Answer 7

: The extent to which researchers’ findings are consistent with the findings of different studies of the same thing or with the findings of the same study over time.

Question 8

Qualitative research

Answer 8

characterized by data that cannot be quantified (or converted into numbers

Question 9

Quantitative data

Answer 9

gathers data that can be quantified and offers insight into broad patterns of social behavior and social attitudes