SOCY 1000 MCCONNELL ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔essay: why would a sociological study not be generalizable? - ✔✔generalizability:
✔✔(t/f) the study of separate societies has become more important because of
globalization - ✔✔f
✔✔(t/f) yablonsky found that the street gang member knows exactly who are the other
members - ✔✔f
✔✔(t/f) the members of a secondary group are performing roles and can be replaced by
other people - ✔✔t
✔✔essay: what makes sociology distinctive? - ✔✔bigger things on higher levels of
analysis
awareness of the big picture
what makes you similar to other people
societies/cultures are always changing
✔✔essay: how did yablonsky use "the group" as an ideal type, to study the street gang?
- ✔✔many others who studied gangs saw them as a group
gangs aren't a group, they're a "near-group"
only saw gangs from media
helped reveal that many of the people fighting the gang wars had different perceptions
✔✔essay: what are the five major institutions? - ✔✔economy, family, education, politics,
religion
✔✔who coined the paradoxical term "the strength of weak ties"? - ✔✔mark granovetter
✔✔in what kind of social network would norms of reciprocity develop? - ✔✔dense social
network
SET A+
✔✔essay: why would a sociological study not be generalizable? - ✔✔generalizability:
✔✔(t/f) the study of separate societies has become more important because of
globalization - ✔✔f
✔✔(t/f) yablonsky found that the street gang member knows exactly who are the other
members - ✔✔f
✔✔(t/f) the members of a secondary group are performing roles and can be replaced by
other people - ✔✔t
✔✔essay: what makes sociology distinctive? - ✔✔bigger things on higher levels of
analysis
awareness of the big picture
what makes you similar to other people
societies/cultures are always changing
✔✔essay: how did yablonsky use "the group" as an ideal type, to study the street gang?
- ✔✔many others who studied gangs saw them as a group
gangs aren't a group, they're a "near-group"
only saw gangs from media
helped reveal that many of the people fighting the gang wars had different perceptions
✔✔essay: what are the five major institutions? - ✔✔economy, family, education, politics,
religion
✔✔who coined the paradoxical term "the strength of weak ties"? - ✔✔mark granovetter
✔✔in what kind of social network would norms of reciprocity develop? - ✔✔dense social
network
