SYG 2000 UCF Exam 1 |95 Questions
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Sociology - -The study of society and human interaction with society
- Sociology Seeks to understand - -General human behavior, social
relationships and social institutions
- Sociological Imagination - -The ability to grasp the relationship between
individual lives and the larger social forces that shape them. Put things into
context, personal beliefs aside, be objective.
- Agency - -ability for an individual to exercise free will
- Structure - -patterned social arrangements that effect agency (ex: a
woman's place is in the home)
- 4 Interrelated historical developments in sociological thinking - -Scientific
revolution, the enlightenment, industrial revolution, urbanization
- Anomie - -When you don't know the social norms and get
stressed/confused
- Functionalism - -How people should come together to avoid anomie
- Auguste Comte - -Coined the term "sociology" and created the idea of
positivism (knowledge gained from scientific fact and reasoning)
- Harriet Martineau - -First female sociologist, said we need to focus on
underrepresented groups to ensure social justice
- Max Weber - -Bureaucracies, first person to talk about capitalism
- Karl Marx - -Conflict, economic and political thinker, thought powerful
people should exploit less powerful for personal benefit and to keep power
- Emile Durkheim - -Pioneered methodology, ideas of suicide, looked at
mechanical and organic bonds
- Mechanical Bonds - -Bonds created because of similarity
- Organic Bonds - -Bonds based on specialization and independence
- Robert Ezra Park - -Pioneer of urban sociology, the chicago school
, - WEB Dubois - -African American male, talked about racial stigma, double
consciousness, aware that they are a different race but more aware that they
are americans
- Robert Merton - -First person to come up with theory of deviance, created
middle range theories
- C. Wright Mills - -Founded the Hull House and was the first to study
neighborhoods
- Functionalism - -Theory that everything in society has a function,
everything serves a purpose, if it doesn't serve a function it will go away
- Durkheim - -Talked about function of deviance, normal vs. abnormal
- Parsons - -First to focus on gender role differences
- Conflict Theory - -Asks who benefits? Who loses? What makes people
different that divides them?
- Symbolic Interaction - -Theory that everything that society has created is
based on social interactions with people
- Scientific Method - -A way of learning about the world that combines
legally constructed theory and systematic observation to provide explanation
- Qualitative Research - -Explanation of numerical data, includes interviews
and is more in depth research
- Quantitative Research - -Numerical data, less personal, less expensive
(surveys, numbers)
- Operational Definition - -Definition of a concept that allows it to be
measured. Created when you want to collect data, use it to measure
something.
- Validity - -The degree to which concepts and their measurements
accurately represent what they claim to represent (hitting the bulls eye)
- Reliability - -The extent to which researchers findings are consistent with
different studies of the same thing or with the same study over time (hitting
the same spot every time)
and answers
Sociology - -The study of society and human interaction with society
- Sociology Seeks to understand - -General human behavior, social
relationships and social institutions
- Sociological Imagination - -The ability to grasp the relationship between
individual lives and the larger social forces that shape them. Put things into
context, personal beliefs aside, be objective.
- Agency - -ability for an individual to exercise free will
- Structure - -patterned social arrangements that effect agency (ex: a
woman's place is in the home)
- 4 Interrelated historical developments in sociological thinking - -Scientific
revolution, the enlightenment, industrial revolution, urbanization
- Anomie - -When you don't know the social norms and get
stressed/confused
- Functionalism - -How people should come together to avoid anomie
- Auguste Comte - -Coined the term "sociology" and created the idea of
positivism (knowledge gained from scientific fact and reasoning)
- Harriet Martineau - -First female sociologist, said we need to focus on
underrepresented groups to ensure social justice
- Max Weber - -Bureaucracies, first person to talk about capitalism
- Karl Marx - -Conflict, economic and political thinker, thought powerful
people should exploit less powerful for personal benefit and to keep power
- Emile Durkheim - -Pioneered methodology, ideas of suicide, looked at
mechanical and organic bonds
- Mechanical Bonds - -Bonds created because of similarity
- Organic Bonds - -Bonds based on specialization and independence
- Robert Ezra Park - -Pioneer of urban sociology, the chicago school
, - WEB Dubois - -African American male, talked about racial stigma, double
consciousness, aware that they are a different race but more aware that they
are americans
- Robert Merton - -First person to come up with theory of deviance, created
middle range theories
- C. Wright Mills - -Founded the Hull House and was the first to study
neighborhoods
- Functionalism - -Theory that everything in society has a function,
everything serves a purpose, if it doesn't serve a function it will go away
- Durkheim - -Talked about function of deviance, normal vs. abnormal
- Parsons - -First to focus on gender role differences
- Conflict Theory - -Asks who benefits? Who loses? What makes people
different that divides them?
- Symbolic Interaction - -Theory that everything that society has created is
based on social interactions with people
- Scientific Method - -A way of learning about the world that combines
legally constructed theory and systematic observation to provide explanation
- Qualitative Research - -Explanation of numerical data, includes interviews
and is more in depth research
- Quantitative Research - -Numerical data, less personal, less expensive
(surveys, numbers)
- Operational Definition - -Definition of a concept that allows it to be
measured. Created when you want to collect data, use it to measure
something.
- Validity - -The degree to which concepts and their measurements
accurately represent what they claim to represent (hitting the bulls eye)
- Reliability - -The extent to which researchers findings are consistent with
different studies of the same thing or with the same study over time (hitting
the same spot every time)
