SOC 215 Prep Exam Questions And Answers All Correct.

Sociology - correct answer the systematic and scientific study of human society and human behavior society - correct answer a group of people who shape their lives in an aggregated and patterned ways that distinguish their group from others sociological perspective - correct answer we use this to examine society sociological imagination - correct answer the ability to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history Intersection of biography and history the individual and society - correct answer social relationship is formed... 1. we are shaped by society in which we live 2. we shape society through our actions Miscrosociology - correct answer emphasizes research into everyday human interactions and agency on a small scale macrosociology - correct answer generally concerned with social dynamics at a higher level of analysis or across the breadth of society structural functionalism - correct answer macrosocial theory emile durkheim social cohesion what makes people attach to society -society is conceived as stable ordered system made up of interrelated parts (structures) -each structure has a function that contributes to stabilizing society as a whole Conflict theory - correct answer Karl Marx (macro) -sees social conflict as the basis of society and social change -change= generated by competition among different class groups for resources -social inequality: the unequal distribution of wealth, power, prestige -pessimist of capitalism (bourgeois vs proletariat) Weberian Theory - correct answer Max Weber (macro) -economy and society -individual behavior was driven by beurocratic goals, which become more important than traditions, values, or emotions -serves as a bridge btwn micro and macro Symbolic Interactionism - correct answer micro level theory = shared meanings and assumptions form social bonds and motivate people's actions -we act toward things on the basis of their meanings -meanings are not inherent, rather theyre negotiated through interactions -meanings can change or be modified through interaction dramaturgical approach - correct answer individuals present themselves as actors post modernism - correct answer shared meanings have eroded leading to multiple perhaps conflicting indentities to emerge -social reality- diverse pluralistic and constantly in flux -facts are subjected to time and space social constructionism - correct answer the ideology that within society norms/behaviors are created and maintained by participants who collectively agree on them -value is placed on abstract concepts bc its is placed on it Methods for collecting data - correct answer quantitative and qualitative quantitative research - correct answer methods that seek info about the social world that is already in or can be converted into numeric form qualitative - correct answer methods that attempt to get info about social world that cannot be readily converted into numbers deductive reasoning - correct answer research that begins with a theory inductive - correct answer research that begins with data dependent variable - correct answer what researcher is trying to explain (the effect) independant variable - correct answer what researcher believes has an impact on the dependent variable (the cause) Correlation vs. Causation - correct answer correlation- one variable increases while the other decreases causation-one variable causes the other valilidy - correct answer the extent to which an instrument measures what it is intended to measure reliability - correct answer the likelihood of obtaining consistent results using the same measure generalizability - correct answer the extent to which we can claim our own findings inform us about a group larger than the one we studied