SOCY 1000 MCCONNELL COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔essay: why would a sociological study not be generalizable? - ✔✔generalizability:
our findings from the study inform us about more than the people we studied
findings could only be specific in that particular group
some of the people might also not be giving accurate results (white coat and social
desirability)
✔✔who defined culture as "a(n) historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied
in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of
which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes
towards life"? - ✔✔clifford geertz
✔✔the location of wealthy business owners in the upper class above the working class
is an example of what? - ✔✔social structure
✔✔what connects nonmaterial culture with material culture? - ✔✔meaning
✔✔who wrote primitive culture? - ✔✔edward burnett tylor
✔✔a social network is a kind of what? - ✔✔social structure
✔✔clifford geertz defined culture as a system of what? - ✔✔meaning
✔✔who believed that the culture in the humanities would enable people to transcend
the ills of modern civilization? - ✔✔matthew arnold
✔✔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? -
✔✔social world
✔✔what is located at each point in the cultural diamond?
, a (top)
b (left)
c (right)
d (bottom) - ✔✔a: social world
b: creator
c: receiver
d: cultural object
✔✔(t/f) technology is material culture - ✔✔t
✔✔(t/f) a society's material culture is provided by nature - ✔✔f
✔✔(t/f) something is a "cultural object" because it embodies meaning - ✔✔t
✔✔(t/f) matthew arnold had a higher regard for "primitive" cultures than did tylor - ✔✔f
✔✔tylor's definition of culture precisely excludes what cannot be called culture - ✔✔f
✔✔essay: how can wonder bread be analyzed as a cultural object? - ✔✔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
✔✔what are the insights and limitations of arnold's, tylor's and geertz's culture
definitions? - ✔✔arnold: only positive, doesn't see negativities of culture
tylor: culture is everything, overgeneralized, too broad
geertz: culture is meaning, has to be historically passed down, things might arise that
don't have a meaning yet
✔✔ yablonsky described the street gang as a what? - ✔✔near group
✔✔there are diffuse relationships in what kind of group? - ✔✔primary group
✔✔who first described the primary group and secondary group ideal types? -
✔✔charles horton cooley
✔✔the size and scope of the things that are studied in a science is its what? - ✔✔level
of analysis
✔✔relationships which involve a lot of emotion are described as being what? -
✔✔expressive
AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔essay: why would a sociological study not be generalizable? - ✔✔generalizability:
our findings from the study inform us about more than the people we studied
findings could only be specific in that particular group
some of the people might also not be giving accurate results (white coat and social
desirability)
✔✔who defined culture as "a(n) historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied
in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of
which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes
towards life"? - ✔✔clifford geertz
✔✔the location of wealthy business owners in the upper class above the working class
is an example of what? - ✔✔social structure
✔✔what connects nonmaterial culture with material culture? - ✔✔meaning
✔✔who wrote primitive culture? - ✔✔edward burnett tylor
✔✔a social network is a kind of what? - ✔✔social structure
✔✔clifford geertz defined culture as a system of what? - ✔✔meaning
✔✔who believed that the culture in the humanities would enable people to transcend
the ills of modern civilization? - ✔✔matthew arnold
✔✔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? -
✔✔social world
✔✔what is located at each point in the cultural diamond?
, a (top)
b (left)
c (right)
d (bottom) - ✔✔a: social world
b: creator
c: receiver
d: cultural object
✔✔(t/f) technology is material culture - ✔✔t
✔✔(t/f) a society's material culture is provided by nature - ✔✔f
✔✔(t/f) something is a "cultural object" because it embodies meaning - ✔✔t
✔✔(t/f) matthew arnold had a higher regard for "primitive" cultures than did tylor - ✔✔f
✔✔tylor's definition of culture precisely excludes what cannot be called culture - ✔✔f
✔✔essay: how can wonder bread be analyzed as a cultural object? - ✔✔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
✔✔what are the insights and limitations of arnold's, tylor's and geertz's culture
definitions? - ✔✔arnold: only positive, doesn't see negativities of culture
tylor: culture is everything, overgeneralized, too broad
geertz: culture is meaning, has to be historically passed down, things might arise that
don't have a meaning yet
✔✔ yablonsky described the street gang as a what? - ✔✔near group
✔✔there are diffuse relationships in what kind of group? - ✔✔primary group
✔✔who first described the primary group and secondary group ideal types? -
✔✔charles horton cooley
✔✔the size and scope of the things that are studied in a science is its what? - ✔✔level
of analysis
✔✔relationships which involve a lot of emotion are described as being what? -
✔✔expressive
