SYG 2000 FINAL EXAM CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● Verstehen
Answer: German; understanding. The concept of Verstehen forms the
object of inquiry for interpretive sociology-- to study how social actors
understand their actions and the social world through experience.
●● Double Consciousness
Answer: two behavioral scripts, one for moving through the world and
the other incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers,
which are constantly maintained by African Americans.
●● Conflict Theory
Answer: the idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic,
animating force of social change and society in general.
●● Feminist Theory
Answer: emphasis on equality between men and women; interested in
how power relationships are defined, shaped, and reproduced on the
basis of gender differences
,●● Symbolic Interaction Theory
Answer: a nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties
of citizenship but identifying with a past or future nationality. For later
generations of white ethnics, something not constraining but easily
expressed, with no risks of stigma and all the pleasures of feeling like an
individual.
●● Post-Modernism Theory
Answer: a condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of
progress and history, the replacement of narrative within pastiche, and
multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed
affiliations
●● Qualitative
Answer: methods that attempt to collect information about the social
world that cannot be readily converted to numeric form.
●● Quantitative
Answer: methods that seeks to obtains information about the social
worlds that is already or can be converted to numeric form.
●● Deductive approach
Answer: a research approach that starts with a theory, forms a
hypothesis, makes empirical observations, and then analyzes the data to
confirm, reject, or modify the original theory.
, ●● Inductive approach
Answer: a research approach that starts with empirical observations and
then works to form a theory.
●● Causality
Answer: the notion that a change in one factor results in a corresponding
change in another.
●● Correlation
Answer: simultaneous variation in two variables.
●● Dependent Variable
Answer: the outcome that the researcher is trying to explain
●● Independent Variable
Answer: a measured factor that the researcher believes has a crucial
impact on the dependent variable.
●● Hypothesis
Answer: a proposed relationship between two variables.
●● Culture
EVALUATION COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
●● Verstehen
Answer: German; understanding. The concept of Verstehen forms the
object of inquiry for interpretive sociology-- to study how social actors
understand their actions and the social world through experience.
●● Double Consciousness
Answer: two behavioral scripts, one for moving through the world and
the other incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers,
which are constantly maintained by African Americans.
●● Conflict Theory
Answer: the idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic,
animating force of social change and society in general.
●● Feminist Theory
Answer: emphasis on equality between men and women; interested in
how power relationships are defined, shaped, and reproduced on the
basis of gender differences
,●● Symbolic Interaction Theory
Answer: a nationality, not in the sense of carrying the rights and duties
of citizenship but identifying with a past or future nationality. For later
generations of white ethnics, something not constraining but easily
expressed, with no risks of stigma and all the pleasures of feeling like an
individual.
●● Post-Modernism Theory
Answer: a condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of
progress and history, the replacement of narrative within pastiche, and
multiple, perhaps even conflicting, identities resulting from disjointed
affiliations
●● Qualitative
Answer: methods that attempt to collect information about the social
world that cannot be readily converted to numeric form.
●● Quantitative
Answer: methods that seeks to obtains information about the social
worlds that is already or can be converted to numeric form.
●● Deductive approach
Answer: a research approach that starts with a theory, forms a
hypothesis, makes empirical observations, and then analyzes the data to
confirm, reject, or modify the original theory.
, ●● Inductive approach
Answer: a research approach that starts with empirical observations and
then works to form a theory.
●● Causality
Answer: the notion that a change in one factor results in a corresponding
change in another.
●● Correlation
Answer: simultaneous variation in two variables.
●● Dependent Variable
Answer: the outcome that the researcher is trying to explain
●● Independent Variable
Answer: a measured factor that the researcher believes has a crucial
impact on the dependent variable.
●● Hypothesis
Answer: a proposed relationship between two variables.
●● Culture
