SYG 2000 UCF Exam 1
Reliability - ✔️✔️The extent to which researchers findings are consistent with different
studies of the same thing or with the same study over time (hitting the same spot every
time)
Survey Research - ✔️✔️Questionnaires or interviews administered to a group of
people in person or by telephone or email to determine their characteristics, opinions
and behaviors.
Fieldwork - ✔️✔️A detailed conversation designed to obtain in-depth information abut a
person and his or her activities (in-depth, takes longer, more expensive)
Culture - ✔️✔️Customs and beliefs, norms, and behaviors that are common to a
particular group
Language - ✔️✔️Can be verbal or non-verbal, anything that conveys meaning or helps
create culture
Material Culture - ✔️✔️Material possessions, tangible objects, homes etc.
Non-Material Culture - ✔️✔️Examples: Patriotism, applauding and the end of a play
Anomie - ✔️✔️When you don't know the social norms and get stressed/confused
Functionalism - ✔️✔️How people should come together to avoid anomie
Auguste Comte - ✔️✔️Coined the term "sociology" and created the idea of positivism
(knowledge gained from scientific fact and reasoning)
Harriet Martineau - ✔️✔️First female sociologist, said we need to focus on
underrepresented groups to ensure social justice
Max Weber - ✔️✔️Bureaucracies, first person to talk about capitalism
Karl Marx - ✔️✔️Conflict, economic and political thinker, thought powerful people
should exploit less powerful for personal benefit and to keep power
, Emile Durkheim - ✔️✔️Pioneered methodology, ideas of suicide, looked at mechanical
and organic bonds
Mechanical Bonds - ✔️✔️Bonds created because of similarity
Organic Bonds - ✔️✔️Bonds based on specialization and independence
Robert Ezra Park - ✔️✔️Pioneer of urban sociology, the chicago school
WEB Dubois - ✔️✔️African American male, talked about racial stigma, double
consciousness, aware that they are a different race but more aware that they are
americans
Robert Merton - ✔️✔️First person to come up with theory of deviance, created middle
range theories
C. Wright Mills - ✔️✔️Founded the Hull House and was the first to study
neighborhoods
Functionalism - ✔️✔️Theory that everything in society has a function, everything
serves a purpose, if it doesn't serve a function it will go away
Durkheim - ✔️✔️Talked about function of deviance, normal vs. abnormal
Parsons - ✔️✔️First to focus on gender role differences
Conflict Theory - ✔️✔️Asks who benefits? Who loses? What makes people different
that divides them?
Symbolic Interaction - ✔️✔️Theory that everything that society has created is based on
social interactions with people
Scientific Method - ✔️✔️A way of learning about the world that combines legally
constructed theory and systematic observation to provide explanation
Sociology - ✔️✔️The study of society and human interaction with society
Sociology Seeks to understand - ✔️✔️General human behavior, social relationships
and social institutions
Sociological Imagination - ✔️✔️The ability to grasp the relationship between individual
lives and the larger social forces that shape them. Put things into context, personal
beliefs aside, be objective.
Reliability - ✔️✔️The extent to which researchers findings are consistent with different
studies of the same thing or with the same study over time (hitting the same spot every
time)
Survey Research - ✔️✔️Questionnaires or interviews administered to a group of
people in person or by telephone or email to determine their characteristics, opinions
and behaviors.
Fieldwork - ✔️✔️A detailed conversation designed to obtain in-depth information abut a
person and his or her activities (in-depth, takes longer, more expensive)
Culture - ✔️✔️Customs and beliefs, norms, and behaviors that are common to a
particular group
Language - ✔️✔️Can be verbal or non-verbal, anything that conveys meaning or helps
create culture
Material Culture - ✔️✔️Material possessions, tangible objects, homes etc.
Non-Material Culture - ✔️✔️Examples: Patriotism, applauding and the end of a play
Anomie - ✔️✔️When you don't know the social norms and get stressed/confused
Functionalism - ✔️✔️How people should come together to avoid anomie
Auguste Comte - ✔️✔️Coined the term "sociology" and created the idea of positivism
(knowledge gained from scientific fact and reasoning)
Harriet Martineau - ✔️✔️First female sociologist, said we need to focus on
underrepresented groups to ensure social justice
Max Weber - ✔️✔️Bureaucracies, first person to talk about capitalism
Karl Marx - ✔️✔️Conflict, economic and political thinker, thought powerful people
should exploit less powerful for personal benefit and to keep power
, Emile Durkheim - ✔️✔️Pioneered methodology, ideas of suicide, looked at mechanical
and organic bonds
Mechanical Bonds - ✔️✔️Bonds created because of similarity
Organic Bonds - ✔️✔️Bonds based on specialization and independence
Robert Ezra Park - ✔️✔️Pioneer of urban sociology, the chicago school
WEB Dubois - ✔️✔️African American male, talked about racial stigma, double
consciousness, aware that they are a different race but more aware that they are
americans
Robert Merton - ✔️✔️First person to come up with theory of deviance, created middle
range theories
C. Wright Mills - ✔️✔️Founded the Hull House and was the first to study
neighborhoods
Functionalism - ✔️✔️Theory that everything in society has a function, everything
serves a purpose, if it doesn't serve a function it will go away
Durkheim - ✔️✔️Talked about function of deviance, normal vs. abnormal
Parsons - ✔️✔️First to focus on gender role differences
Conflict Theory - ✔️✔️Asks who benefits? Who loses? What makes people different
that divides them?
Symbolic Interaction - ✔️✔️Theory that everything that society has created is based on
social interactions with people
Scientific Method - ✔️✔️A way of learning about the world that combines legally
constructed theory and systematic observation to provide explanation
Sociology - ✔️✔️The study of society and human interaction with society
Sociology Seeks to understand - ✔️✔️General human behavior, social relationships
and social institutions
Sociological Imagination - ✔️✔️The ability to grasp the relationship between individual
lives and the larger social forces that shape them. Put things into context, personal
beliefs aside, be objective.
