Dramaturgical theory Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is sociology? - Answer- Is one of the social sciences disciplines that examine the human or special world. What is society? - Answer- A people who live in a defined geographic area who interact with one another and who share a common culture. Be able to identify how each of these concepts could be used to explain a single social phenomenon. - Answer- This perspective is called a "realist"approach to social science. In contrast, "non-realist" approaches argue that one single concep...

01 Student: ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. According to Timmerman, sociologists are concerned with the study of: 
A. similarities between social evolution and the evolution of viruses.
B. how important individuals shape the society in which ordinary people live.
C. what people do as members of a group or while interacting with one another.
D. what people do today and how it can be used to predict future social trends.   2. The s...

Absolute poverty - ANSWER-A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist. Achieved status - ANSWER-A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts. Activity theory - ANSWER-An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted. Adoption - ANSWER-In a legal sense, a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights, responsibilities,...

CHAPTER 3 SOCIALIZATION Questions included in web quizzing are marked in bold Student Learning Objectives After reading Chapter 3, students should be able to: 1. Recognize that human abilities remain undeveloped unless social interaction unleashes them. 2. Compare change over the past century in the socializing influence of the family, schools, peer groups and the mass media. 3. Appreciate that people’s identities change faster, more often, and more completely than they did j...

SYG2000 midterm chap 1-10 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A society - ANSWER- A community of people who share a common culture Wright Mills- sociological imagination - ANSWER- describe the ability to "think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life" and look at them from an entirely new perspective. sociology - ANSWER- The study of how people interact Social Sciences - ANSWER- Related disciplines that study various as...

SYG2000 midterm chap 1-10 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A society - ANSWER- A community of people who share a common culture Wright Mills- sociological imagination - ANSWER- describe the ability to "think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life" and look at them from an entirely new perspective. sociology - ANSWER- The study of how people interact Social Sciences - ANSWER- Related disciplines that study various as...

Name the three main parts of a neuron and the direction in which an action potential travels Axons, soma (cell body), and dendrites. Action potentials are received by dendrites and travel from the cell body down the axon What determines the intensity of an electrical signal for an action potential? Frequency of action potentials Brainpower Read More 0:11 / 0:15 List 5 physiological changes that are associated with activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Inhibition of ...

Ethnomethodology - Answer- refers to procedures - rules and activities - that people employ in making social life what initially contributed to the occurrence of the deviant behavior. - Answer- Labeling theory does not explain occupy; play - Answer- We ___________ a status and ____________ a role. Fifty to sixty - Answer- ________ percent of the elderly function without any limitation. increased over the past several decades. - Answer- Juvenile involvement in violent crime d. All ...

C. Wright Mills - ANSWER-created the "sociological imagination", found that leaders in major areas of influence and authority not only share a singular vision of what is fair and good but also that they act in ways that serve their interest in maintaining the existing stratification system and their positions in it Auguste Comte - ANSWER-"father of sociology", coined the term sociology, three stages of development for social sciences Harriet Martineau - ANSWER-studied American society ...

SYG2000 midterm chap 1-10 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A society - ANSWER- A community of people who share a common culture Wright Mills- sociological imagination - ANSWER- describe the ability to "think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life" and look at them from an entirely new perspective. sociology - ANSWER- The study of how people interact Social Sciences - ANSWER- Related disciplines that study various as...