Larkin SOC102 Final Study questions
with answers
define sociology - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ the scientific study of human social behavior and human
groups and how they change over time
list the 8 step scientific method diagram - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. select a research topic (select a
topic)
2. formulate a research question (define the problem)
3. review the literature related to the research question
4. formulate the hypothesis
5. choose a research method
6. collect the data
7. analyze the data in order to draw conclusions and state the results
8. share the results
list Larkin's social stratification diagram (how stratification works) - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ social
differentiation -> social inequality -> social order (society) -> social stratification -> organizing principle of
stratification (race, gender, class) (created by the social force of sociohistorical & political action)-> social
structure -> social institutions -> goods, services, and life options that become embedded in social
positions
what is the measurement of stratification by social class? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ - income
- wealth
- prestige
list the four premises or presuppositions of sociology - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. humans are linked
to each other
2. we depend upon each other for existence
3. identity comes from interaction
, 4. to understand social forms (groups, organizations), one needs to understand individual action
what is going to change in society when impacted by social change? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ social
behavior
social relationships
social institutions
social stratification
list the major sociological or theoretical perspectives - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ structural
functionalism
conflict theory
symbolic interactionism
define sociological imagination - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ a way of thinking that analyzes the social
world as an impartial observer specifically viewing how individuals shape society and how society shapes
the individual
~a creative type of thinking introduced by C. Wright Mills
~gives one the ability to view own society as an outsider
~an awareness of a relationship between an individual (biography) and society (history)
~a perspective of a person in history (social context)
~a perspective of history producing people (social force)
list C. Wright Mill's 3 great sociological question arenas that all sociological questions fall within
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. social structure
2. social change
3. social inequality
define theory - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ a set of ideas that attempts to explain the known facts of a
subject in a way that makes sense
with answers
define sociology - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ the scientific study of human social behavior and human
groups and how they change over time
list the 8 step scientific method diagram - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. select a research topic (select a
topic)
2. formulate a research question (define the problem)
3. review the literature related to the research question
4. formulate the hypothesis
5. choose a research method
6. collect the data
7. analyze the data in order to draw conclusions and state the results
8. share the results
list Larkin's social stratification diagram (how stratification works) - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ social
differentiation -> social inequality -> social order (society) -> social stratification -> organizing principle of
stratification (race, gender, class) (created by the social force of sociohistorical & political action)-> social
structure -> social institutions -> goods, services, and life options that become embedded in social
positions
what is the measurement of stratification by social class? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ - income
- wealth
- prestige
list the four premises or presuppositions of sociology - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. humans are linked
to each other
2. we depend upon each other for existence
3. identity comes from interaction
, 4. to understand social forms (groups, organizations), one needs to understand individual action
what is going to change in society when impacted by social change? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ social
behavior
social relationships
social institutions
social stratification
list the major sociological or theoretical perspectives - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ structural
functionalism
conflict theory
symbolic interactionism
define sociological imagination - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ a way of thinking that analyzes the social
world as an impartial observer specifically viewing how individuals shape society and how society shapes
the individual
~a creative type of thinking introduced by C. Wright Mills
~gives one the ability to view own society as an outsider
~an awareness of a relationship between an individual (biography) and society (history)
~a perspective of a person in history (social context)
~a perspective of history producing people (social force)
list C. Wright Mill's 3 great sociological question arenas that all sociological questions fall within
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 1. social structure
2. social change
3. social inequality
define theory - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ a set of ideas that attempts to explain the known facts of a
subject in a way that makes sense
