The Exam

Question 1

Sociological Imagination

Answer 1

Awareness of the personal experience in the context of society

Question 2

Personal troubles/public issues

Answer 2

Troubles happen to you and you talk to other people to see if they are not only your problem

Question 3

Sociology as a discipline

Answer 3

Formed in the industrial era because lots of peeps moving close together so it was easy to see differences within society. Some social mobility

Question 4

Social Determinism vs probabilistic

Answer 4

Probabilistic- if you you experienced this, then you are more likely to blah. SD- if you experienced this, then you will do that.

Question 5

Human agency

Answer 5

Free will. How much have to affect conditions of life. HH decided to drop out

Question 6

Micro/macro sociology

Answer 6

Micro- individual approach (symbolic) macro group of people

Question 7

Generalizations

Answer 7

Based on observation

Question 8

Stereotypes

Answer 8

Not based on fact

Question 9

Ethnocentrism

Answer 9

Judging other cultures practices by the standards of your own culture

Question 10

Cultural relativism

Answer 10

Every group has its own logical step outside perspective.

Question 11

The self

Answer 11

Language in which parties articulate visions of what is good/right

Question 12

Durkheim

Answer 12

Protestants more likely to kill themselves, sociological imagination

Question 13

Social fact

Answer 13

Values cultural norms and social structures which transcend the individual and are capable of exercising a social constraint

Question 14

Anomic altruistic suicide

Answer 14

Not connected vs social values promote (suicide bombers)`

Question 15

Functionalism

Answer 15

Social order –> deviance affirms cultural values/norms. Responding brings people together

Question 16

Conflict theory

Answer 16

Power. Those we label as deviant are powerless. Laws reflect interest of rich

Question 17

Symbolic Interactionism

Answer 17

Micro level. How people come to know themselves. How people make meaning of their situation

Question 18

Looking Glass Self

Answer 18

How one imagines themselves in context of the minds of others

Question 19

Performance

Answer 19

Conducted by participants in order to influence interaction

Question 20

Front stage

Answer 20

Performance in progress

Question 21

Scripts

Answer 21

social lubrication of interaction

Question 22

Back stage

Answer 22

place relative to a given performance, where impressions fostered by the performance knowingly contradicted as a matter of course

Question 23

Double consciousness

Answer 23

Looking only at yourself through the eyes of others. Never being American and black

Question 24

Intersectionality

Answer 24

Race, class, sexuality. You’re aware of all parts

Question 25

Social location

Answer 25

Where you stand in society

Question 26

Social structure

Answer 26

ties to organizations and social institutions

Question 27

Sex

Answer 27

socially agreed upon bio category

Question 28

Gender

Answer 28

managing situated conduct normative attitudes/activities

Question 29

Gender socialization

Answer 29

Cultural means by which norms/restrictions to adhere to the traditional patterns that maintain social functioning

Question 30

Social construction of sexuality

Answer 30

Classifications are the product of power struggles b/w groups. Society teaches us which sensations are sexual

Question 31

Essentialist vs constructivist view

Answer 31

sexuality basic part of being human vs social product

Question 32

Deviance

Answer 32

departing from what is socially normal

Question 33

Social norms

Answer 33

appropriate behavior in specific situations that are not regulated by laws, but agreed as the right way to act

Question 34

Social control

Answer 34

norms berger

Question 35

Concentric circles of social control

Answer 35

Formal- get caught cheating informal- you shouldn’t cheat internalized- no one is watching but you still don’t cheat because you feel society

Question 36

Functions of deviance

Answer 36

Affirms cultural values/norms. Responding brings people together. Clarifies moral boundaries and encourages changes

Question 37

Life history method/theoretical sample

Answer 37

Life history is an in depth interview. Theoretical sample developing a theory as it emerges

Question 38

Gender-identity development

Answer 38

developed early child. How they connect with being male or female

Question 39

gender entrapment

Answer 39

because of social location and gender women who thought they were special can’t get the jobs they want because of social location and then can’t make money and so they marry

Question 40

Marital rape

Answer 40

pretty shitty stuff

Question 41

Functional need for stratification

Answer 41

social order society division of society into layers of differential power and prestige

Question 42

the american dream

Answer 42

fucking bull shit

Question 43

achievement ideology

Answer 43

if you work hard you’ll get what you want

Question 44

ethnography

Answer 44

description of customs of individual people people and cultures

Question 45

Social reproduction theory

Answer 45

school enforces inequality by teaching rich to take the top of econ while poor accept low class

Question 46

economic derterminism

Answer 46

if you are born into X class, you will wind up in that class

Question 47

cultural capital

Answer 47

general cultural background, knowledge, disposition, skills that are passed from one generation to the next

Question 48

Habitus

Answer 48

attitude that source surrounded by expectations

Question 49

leveled aspirations

Answer 49

not told to have higher aspirations, so you don’t and then don’t achieve more