LSU Sociology Test (Thomas) With Right
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August Comte - ✅✅ Father of Sociology
Functionalist Perspective - ✅✅ a sociological approach that emphasizes the way
in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability
Conflict Perspective - ✅✅ tension between groups over power and resources
Interactionist Perspective - ✅✅ how everyday interaction explains society as a
whole, construction of meaning.
Operational Definition - ✅✅ Narrowing down the variable to specific attributes
to measurement
Random sample - ✅✅ statistically representative because every member had an
equal chance of being picked
Hawthorne effect - ✅✅ Unintended influence that observers have on subjects
Secondary analysis - ✅✅ previously collected and public information available
to use (general social survey)
, Culture - ✅✅ Everything we create in establishing relationships with nature and
with each other
Cultural lag - ✅✅ gap when non-material culture struggles to adapt to new
conditions of material culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - ✅✅ the structure and the vocabulary of a language
shapes perception and reality - shapes thoughts and actions
Informal norms - ✅✅ understood
Dominant Ideology - ✅✅ set of cultural practices/ beliefs that legitimate
(maintain) powerful social/ economic/ political interests (gender inequality)
Counterculture - ✅✅ a subculture that deliberately resists aspects of the larger
culture (hippies, terrorist, KKK, Women's March)
Culture Shock - ✅✅ Negative feelings that happen when people encounter
unfamiliar cultures
Impression management - ✅✅ is when we alter self for a particular audience
Sociology - ✅✅ the systematic study of the relationship between the individual
and society and the consequences of difference
Sociological Imagination - ✅✅ our recognition of the interdependent
relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our
lives
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August Comte - ✅✅ Father of Sociology
Functionalist Perspective - ✅✅ a sociological approach that emphasizes the way
in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability
Conflict Perspective - ✅✅ tension between groups over power and resources
Interactionist Perspective - ✅✅ how everyday interaction explains society as a
whole, construction of meaning.
Operational Definition - ✅✅ Narrowing down the variable to specific attributes
to measurement
Random sample - ✅✅ statistically representative because every member had an
equal chance of being picked
Hawthorne effect - ✅✅ Unintended influence that observers have on subjects
Secondary analysis - ✅✅ previously collected and public information available
to use (general social survey)
, Culture - ✅✅ Everything we create in establishing relationships with nature and
with each other
Cultural lag - ✅✅ gap when non-material culture struggles to adapt to new
conditions of material culture
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis - ✅✅ the structure and the vocabulary of a language
shapes perception and reality - shapes thoughts and actions
Informal norms - ✅✅ understood
Dominant Ideology - ✅✅ set of cultural practices/ beliefs that legitimate
(maintain) powerful social/ economic/ political interests (gender inequality)
Counterculture - ✅✅ a subculture that deliberately resists aspects of the larger
culture (hippies, terrorist, KKK, Women's March)
Culture Shock - ✅✅ Negative feelings that happen when people encounter
unfamiliar cultures
Impression management - ✅✅ is when we alter self for a particular audience
Sociology - ✅✅ the systematic study of the relationship between the individual
and society and the consequences of difference
Sociological Imagination - ✅✅ our recognition of the interdependent
relationship between who we are as individuals and the social forces that shape our
lives
