SOC 100 Purdue final Exam Study Guide Purdue
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Emile Durkheim - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>(Macro) Fuctionalist. He
looked at how all parts of a society work together in harmony
like parts of a machine or organism to promote and reinforce
social solidarity. Social problems occur when parts are not
working well together or are not properly regulated, which
produces anomie.
Theory - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a set of statements that seeks to
explain problems, actions, or behavior. And effective theory
may have both explanatory and predictive power.
Major Theoretical Perspectives - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>Conflict,
Funtionalist, Interactionist
Functionalist Perspective - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a view that
emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured
to maintain its stability.
Conflict Perspective - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a view that
assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of
tension between groups over power or the allocation of
,resources (including housing, money, access to services, and
political representation).
Interactionist Perspective - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a view that
generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction in order
to explain society as a whole.
1) assume society emerges from interaction between people
2) focuses on shared social meaning.
3) Society shapes our sense of self
4) Understanding social behavior with the point of view of
people being studied
Dependent Variable - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is what you measure
in the experiment and what is affected during the experiment.
The dependent variable responds to the independent variable. It
is called dependent because it "depends" on the independent
variable.
Independent Variable - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is the variable you
have control over, what you can choose and manipulate.
Validity - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>refers to the degree to which a
measure or scale truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Reliability - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>refers to the extent to which a
measure produces consistent results.
Just because a measurement is reliable does not mean it is valid
, Measurement Bias - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>occurs when
information collected for use as a study variable is inaccurate
through the means of invalid measuring practices.
Measurement Error - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is observational error,
or quantitative error.
1) Using the wrong scale
2) Using the wrong measurement device
ex) thermometer to measure IQ
Sampling Bias - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>1) Loaded Questions steer
participants towards some responses and away from other ones.
2) Poor Maps between questions & theoretical variable that it is
suppose to measuring
3) Poorly worded questions that confuse subjects or that subject
interpret in very different ways
4) Inappropriate response scales
5) Subject bias
a) people do not want ti embarrass or make themselves look bad
b) subjects try to be too cooperative
c) subjects try to troll or joke
6) Poor Subject sampling
Sampling Error - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is an error in a sample
analysis, due to the improper representation of a population from
the sample taken. This is usually due to poor research design.
Why use control variables? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>Control
variables are used to keep a factor held constant to test the
relative impact of an independent variable. Using these reduces
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Emile Durkheim - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>(Macro) Fuctionalist. He
looked at how all parts of a society work together in harmony
like parts of a machine or organism to promote and reinforce
social solidarity. Social problems occur when parts are not
working well together or are not properly regulated, which
produces anomie.
Theory - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a set of statements that seeks to
explain problems, actions, or behavior. And effective theory
may have both explanatory and predictive power.
Major Theoretical Perspectives - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>Conflict,
Funtionalist, Interactionist
Functionalist Perspective - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a view that
emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured
to maintain its stability.
Conflict Perspective - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a view that
assumes that social behavior is best understood in terms of
tension between groups over power or the allocation of
,resources (including housing, money, access to services, and
political representation).
Interactionist Perspective - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is a view that
generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction in order
to explain society as a whole.
1) assume society emerges from interaction between people
2) focuses on shared social meaning.
3) Society shapes our sense of self
4) Understanding social behavior with the point of view of
people being studied
Dependent Variable - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is what you measure
in the experiment and what is affected during the experiment.
The dependent variable responds to the independent variable. It
is called dependent because it "depends" on the independent
variable.
Independent Variable - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is the variable you
have control over, what you can choose and manipulate.
Validity - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>refers to the degree to which a
measure or scale truly reflects the phenomenon under study.
Reliability - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>refers to the extent to which a
measure produces consistent results.
Just because a measurement is reliable does not mean it is valid
, Measurement Bias - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>occurs when
information collected for use as a study variable is inaccurate
through the means of invalid measuring practices.
Measurement Error - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is observational error,
or quantitative error.
1) Using the wrong scale
2) Using the wrong measurement device
ex) thermometer to measure IQ
Sampling Bias - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>1) Loaded Questions steer
participants towards some responses and away from other ones.
2) Poor Maps between questions & theoretical variable that it is
suppose to measuring
3) Poorly worded questions that confuse subjects or that subject
interpret in very different ways
4) Inappropriate response scales
5) Subject bias
a) people do not want ti embarrass or make themselves look bad
b) subjects try to be too cooperative
c) subjects try to troll or joke
6) Poor Subject sampling
Sampling Error - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>is an error in a sample
analysis, due to the improper representation of a population from
the sample taken. This is usually due to poor research design.
Why use control variables? - ✔✔ANSWER✔✔>>Control
variables are used to keep a factor held constant to test the
relative impact of an independent variable. Using these reduces
