sociology unit 1

Question 1

What is sociology?

Answer 1

It is the study of human groups and social behaviour. Investigates human behaviour and social interaction on a variety of levels

Question 2

What is the scientific methods?

Answer 2

Research based on observable, empirical and measurable evidence the procedes from observation. hypothesis testing then evaluation

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What is Sociological Imagination?

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a form of critical thinking the examines the social world from multiple points of view it see the social in individual behaviour.

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Theory

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A theory is a statement about the way the world is believed to world, the role of sociological theories is to explain social behaviour in the real world. e.g. Why are some people racist, sexist or ageist?

Question 5

Sociological Perspective?

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A sociological perspective is a collection of theories that provides researchers with a model to guid and reflect upon their social research.

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What is Feminism?

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A theoretical perspective that advocates for gender equality by opposing sexism and patriarchy

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Research Methods?

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The ways in which researchers collect data conduct research and analyse data.

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What’s a Experiment?

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Controlled research that involves testing the effect of one variable on another. usually by comparing results from a control group to a experimental group.

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What’s a Survey?

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Research involving participates responding to a set of questions or statements that are analysed statistically.

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Questionnaire?

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Is research involving a set of PLANNED questions for participants, analysed statistically.

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Interview?

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Another form of research where by a participant is asked to answer a series of questions. through one and one conversation.

Question 12

What’s Fieldwork?

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research involving observing and recording participants behaviour in naturalistic setting.

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What’s Participant Observation?

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Research involving the careful watching and recording of participant (subject) behaviour in a clinical or naturalistic setting

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Whats secondary analysis?

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Research involving the study of data conducted by someone else.

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What is historical analysis?

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Research involving the use of primary sources and other original evidence to form accounts of the past.

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What’s Quantitive data?

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Numerical information that has been collected in research the reflects the amount or quantity of what is being studied.

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What is Qualitative data?

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Descriptive information that has been collected in research that includes, words, descriptions, pictures and other ‘qualitys’ of what us being studied commonly used in social sciences.

Question 18

Sociological Discourse

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a discourse is a way of reflecting on data and observations made about people and or a event. Opinions are based upon a collections of beliefs, ‘truths’ myths and language of a culture

Question 19

Stereotype

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assumptions about individuals based on their social group membership rather than individual characteristics

Question 20

Youth

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A socially constructed age based social category appropriate to western societies which usually includes young people between ages 12-24

Question 21

adolescence

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a term with strong biological associations describing the period of on set of puberty to full sexual reproduction and full physiological maturations

Question 22

prejudice

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a positive or negative prejudgement about an entire category of people

Question 23

discrimination

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the un equal treatment towards a category of people

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ethnicity

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the particular cultural features thats are shared by distinctive features group or population the social traits shared by these groupings include, nationality ideology and life styles, common language, common cultural and religios practises and common ancestry support the ethnic identity

Question 25

Cultual hybridity

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the process of combining and drawing upon different cultural and identities to create a new hybridised culture slighty changing the dominate culture

Question 26

social class

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the social status and identity of groups of people based on shared social and economic backgroundin australia the term socioeconomic status SES is used with interchangably social cass’

Question 27

intergenerational inequality

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disadvantages that passes through generations of a family

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Gender

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refers to the socially and culturally constructed categories of feminine and masculine as compared to the biological categories of sex

Question 29

Sexual orientation

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refers to a persons physical attraction to the same and/or opposite gender.

Question 30

baby boomer:

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a social category encompassing australians who were born between 1946 and 1964

Question 31

Generation y:

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australians born between 1980 and 1994

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Generation Z:

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1995 and 2009

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Digital Native

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a person born into a generation in which information and communication technology already existed and has there for used ICT from young age.

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Digital immigrant

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born before the ICT era and has learnt to use it.

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Generation x:

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people born 1963 and 1980being individual flexible and hard working.

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subculture

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a minority group containing members who categorised with shared characteristics or intrest such as norms values, enthnicity, social class and sexual orientation.

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homogeneous thinking is

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social categorisation of individuals who share similarities e.g young people are lay or location

Question 38

social sustainability

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social planning bettering for future social generations