(t/f) a role gives a person a social identity - ANS-t
(t/f) a society is the same thing as a nation-state - ANS-f
(t/f) a society's material culture is provided by nature - ANS-f
(t/f) an institution and an organization are the same thing - ANS-f
(t/f) complete examples of ideal types are rarely found in the real world - ANS-t
(t/f) disease can most effectively be prevented from spreading when it follows a spanning tree
pattern - ANS-f
(t/f) granovetter found that friends the individual sees "often" are most able to help her find a job
- ANS-f
(t/f) instrumental relationships within secondary groups are usually uniplex ties - ANS-t
(t/f) irb approval is required for all research involving human subjects - ANS-t
(t/f) lewis yablonsky observed that the street gang is an ideal-typical group - ANS-f
(t/f) matthew arnold had a higher regard for "primitive" cultures than did tylor - ANS-f
(t/f) people set up their lives in much the same way because of institutions - ANS-t
(t/f) social desirability responses increase the validity of data - ANS-false
(t/f) society is the highest level of analysis in sociology - ANS-f
(t/f) something is a "cultural object" because it embodies meaning - ANS-t
(t/f) surveys collect quantitative data - ANS-t
(t/f) technology is material culture - ANS-t
(t/f) the dependent variable comes after an independent variable - ANS-true
(t/f) the irb is a bureau of the federal government - ANS-f
, (t/f) the members of a secondary group are performing roles and can be replaced by other
people - ANS-t
(t/f) the study of separate societies has become more important because of globalization -
ANS-f
(t/f) yablonsky found that the street gang member knows exactly who are the other members -
ANS-f
a connection between auburn university and an airline company which would make it easier for
aviation majors to get jobs in that company is an example of what? - ANS-social world
a network in which most people do not know one another personally and where ties are mainly
indirect is a what? - ANS-sparse social network
a perfect description which lists all of the characteristics of a social phenomenon is a what? -
ANS-ideal type
a social network is a kind of what? - ANS-social structure
a study of a small group of teenage boys who hang out on the street corner every evening
would be considered what kind of sociology? - ANS-microsociology
an individual in a secondary group and in an institution will know how to act because he or she
is filling a what? - ANS-role
clifford geertz defined culture as a system of what? - ANS-meaning
conclusions are reached with statistics in what research methods? - ANS-quantitative methods
detailed descriptions of the daily activities of a street gang would be made by what research
methods? - ANS-qualitative methods
essay: how can wonder bread be analyzed as a cultural object? - ANS-came around at the end
of a world war
represented equality and freedom (cultural object)
hippies thought it represented corporations, revolted against it
found out it was vegan so the hippies changed their minds
essay: how did yablonsky use "the group" as an ideal type, to study the street gang? -
ANS-many others who studied gangs saw them as a group
gangs aren't a group, they're a "near-group"
only saw gangs from media