Introduction to Sociology - Milestone 1

Introduction to Sociology - Milestone 1 Which of the following was one of researcher Philip Zimbardo’s key findings in the Stanford Prison Experiment? • The guards who participated in the experiment had aggressive personalities. • Research has the potential to harm the physical and mental well-being of participants. • Research does not impact the physical and mental well-being of participants. • The prisoners who participated in the experiment had aggressive personalities. Jackie uses graphs and charts to present data on obesity in the United States. She creates a chart showing the increasing number of children who are obese, as well as the mean, median, and mode weights. The type of data Jackie presents on the chart is called __________ statistics. • qualitative • spurious • inferential • descriptive Which of the following sociologists produced research demonstrating the challenges of the participant observation method? • William Foot Whyte • W.E.B. Du Bois • Lois Benjamin • Max Weber Which of the following approaches emphasizes issues that arise due to differences between races? • Symbolic interaction theory • Power elite theory • Structural functional theory •