SYG2000 online midterm UF Exam Q’s
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Sociology - -is the study of groups and group interactions, societies and
social interactions, from small and personal groups to very large groups.
- Society - -A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who
interact with one another, and who share a common culture; Sociologists
study all aspects and levels
- Micro-level - -study small groups and individual interactions; example:
accepted rules of conversation in various groups such as among teenagers
or business professionals
- Macro-level - -trends among and between large groups and societies;
example: ways that language use has changed over time or in social media
outlets
- Culture - -a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs; encompasses a
group's way of life, from routine, everyday interactions to the most important
parts of group members' lives; everything produced by a society, including
all of the social rules
- Sociological imagination - -awareness of the relationship between a
person's behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the
person's choices and perceptions; a way of seeing our own and other
people's behavior in relationship to history and social structure; used to
study culture
- Reification - -the error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a
real, material existence; example: culture
- Social facts - -the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions,
rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life; that may
contribute to these changes in the family; each of these social facts serves
one or more functions within a society; coined by Emile Durkheim
- Positivism - -the scientific study of social patterns; using scientific
methods to reveal the laws by which societies and individuals interact would
usher in a new "positivist" age of history; coined by Auguste Comte
- Significant others - -specific individuals that impacted a person's life;
coined by George Herbert Mead
, - Generalized others - -the organized and generalized attitude of a social
group; coined by George Herbert Mead
- Verstehen - -a German word that means to understand in a deep way; in
seeking verstehen, outside observers of a social world—an entire culture or a
small setting—attempt to understand it from an insider's point of view;
coined by Max Weber
- Antipositivism - -social researchers would strive for subjectivity as they
worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values; led
to some research methods whose aim was not to generalize or predict
(traditional in science), but to systematically gain an in-depth understanding
of social worlds; coined by Max Weber
- Quantitative Sociology - -uses statistical methods such as surveys with
large numbers of participants; researchers analyze data using statistical
techniques to see if they can uncover patterns of human behavior; coined by
Max Weber
- Qualitative Sociology - -seeks to understand human behavior by learning
about it through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and analysis of content
sources; example: books, magazines journals, and popular media; coined by
Max Weber
- Theory - -a way to explain different aspects of social interactions
- Hypothesis - -create a testable proposition; a testable educated guess
about predicted outcomes between two or more variables; it's a possible
explanation for specific happenings in the social world and allows for testing
to determine whether the explanation holds true in many instances, as well
as among various groups or in different places
- Social solidarity - -social ties within a group; used in suicide study; coined
by Emile Durkheim
- Grand theories - -attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer
fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change
- Paradigm - -philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a
discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments
performed in support of them; Three paradigms have come to dominate
sociological thinking, because they provide useful explanations: structural
functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism
- STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM - -The way each part of society functions
together to contribute to the whole; macro-mid level of analysis; sees society
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Sociology - -is the study of groups and group interactions, societies and
social interactions, from small and personal groups to very large groups.
- Society - -A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who
interact with one another, and who share a common culture; Sociologists
study all aspects and levels
- Micro-level - -study small groups and individual interactions; example:
accepted rules of conversation in various groups such as among teenagers
or business professionals
- Macro-level - -trends among and between large groups and societies;
example: ways that language use has changed over time or in social media
outlets
- Culture - -a group's shared practices, values, and beliefs; encompasses a
group's way of life, from routine, everyday interactions to the most important
parts of group members' lives; everything produced by a society, including
all of the social rules
- Sociological imagination - -awareness of the relationship between a
person's behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the
person's choices and perceptions; a way of seeing our own and other
people's behavior in relationship to history and social structure; used to
study culture
- Reification - -the error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a
real, material existence; example: culture
- Social facts - -the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions,
rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life; that may
contribute to these changes in the family; each of these social facts serves
one or more functions within a society; coined by Emile Durkheim
- Positivism - -the scientific study of social patterns; using scientific
methods to reveal the laws by which societies and individuals interact would
usher in a new "positivist" age of history; coined by Auguste Comte
- Significant others - -specific individuals that impacted a person's life;
coined by George Herbert Mead
, - Generalized others - -the organized and generalized attitude of a social
group; coined by George Herbert Mead
- Verstehen - -a German word that means to understand in a deep way; in
seeking verstehen, outside observers of a social world—an entire culture or a
small setting—attempt to understand it from an insider's point of view;
coined by Max Weber
- Antipositivism - -social researchers would strive for subjectivity as they
worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values; led
to some research methods whose aim was not to generalize or predict
(traditional in science), but to systematically gain an in-depth understanding
of social worlds; coined by Max Weber
- Quantitative Sociology - -uses statistical methods such as surveys with
large numbers of participants; researchers analyze data using statistical
techniques to see if they can uncover patterns of human behavior; coined by
Max Weber
- Qualitative Sociology - -seeks to understand human behavior by learning
about it through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and analysis of content
sources; example: books, magazines journals, and popular media; coined by
Max Weber
- Theory - -a way to explain different aspects of social interactions
- Hypothesis - -create a testable proposition; a testable educated guess
about predicted outcomes between two or more variables; it's a possible
explanation for specific happenings in the social world and allows for testing
to determine whether the explanation holds true in many instances, as well
as among various groups or in different places
- Social solidarity - -social ties within a group; used in suicide study; coined
by Emile Durkheim
- Grand theories - -attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer
fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change
- Paradigm - -philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a
discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments
performed in support of them; Three paradigms have come to dominate
sociological thinking, because they provide useful explanations: structural
functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism
- STRUCTURAL FUNCTIONALISM - -The way each part of society functions
together to contribute to the whole; macro-mid level of analysis; sees society
