sociology as a discipline

Question 1

conflict theory

Answer 1

the ways economic inequality affects people’s lives and the ways inequality is reproduced (karl marx)–important to study of HIV because certain populations (poor) at higher risk for the disease and less access to treatment

Question 2

structural violence

Answer 2

focuses on the way social arrangements of many forms keep certain groups of people from the opportunity to meet their basic needs and thrive (johan galtung, used today by advocates for improvement in health care delivery on global scale)–important to HIV because we need to understand what social structures leave certain groups of people at higher risk for HIV and reduced access to care

Question 3

symbolic interactionism

Answer 3

focuses on interactions between individuals and what is being conveyed beyond actual words, can study relationships between doctors and patients, international aid organizations and villagers (george herbert mead, erving goffman, others)

Question 4

world system theory

Answer 4

the way in which global relations are structured such that certain nations and their people are advantaged, linked to development of overseas transportation and emergence of colonial system and reality that even in a post colonial world many of form colonies remain reliant and indebted to former colonizers (immanual wallerstein, structural violence)

Question 5

phenomenonology

Answer 5

individual experience of any given phenomenon, could study what it is to live with AIDS, what it means to have HIV, etc. typically done with qualitative data collection (edmund husserl and alfred schutz)

Question 6

the research process

Answer 6

theory, hypothesis, observation, generalizations

Question 7

some research methods

Answer 7

surveys, content analysis, ethnography (observational research that takes place over time), in-depth interviews, secondary research (analyzing data already collected)

Question 8

research q: factual

Answer 8

what is happening

Question 9

research q- comparative

Answer 9

comparison of what is happening in more than one place/situation

Question 10

research q-developmental

Answer 10

comparison of what has happened at different historical moments

Question 11

research q-theoretical

Answer 11

the “why” question