SYG2000 midterm chap 1-10 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A

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 aspects of human social behavior. figuration - ANSWER- the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior generalization - ANSWER- A conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person Conflict Theory - ANSWER- Macro -How inequalities contribute to social differences and perpetuate differences in power father of sociology: comte positivism sociology - ANSWER- positivism is a view about the appropriate methodology of social science, emphasizing empirical observation. class conflict bourgeoislie proletariat - ANSWER- Karl Marx, who posited a class struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie intrinsic to capitalist, industrial society. This notion is powerful in being dynamic, intuitively persuasive, and appearing to fit well with history. durkheim- social integration - ANSWER- believed that society exerted a powerful force on individuals... people's norms, beliefs, and values make up a collective consciousness, or a shared way of understanding and behaving in the world. symbolic interactionism symbols - ANSWER- Explains social behavior in terms of how people interact with each other via symbols. dramaturgical analysis - ANSWER- The study of social interaction that compares everyday life to a theatrical presentation functional analysis - ANSWER- an analysis of the purposes (functions) of problem behavior, wherein antecedents and consequences representing those in the person's natural routines are arranged within an experimental design so that their separate effects on problem behavior can be observed and measured robert merton - ANSWER- According to the structural strain theory of deviance as articulated by ___________, what is one of the principal reasons that people turn to deviant behavior in the United States? The goal of success is shared by a majority of people, but not everyone has equal means to achieve that goal. Theretical perpective- conflict theory - ANSWER- how inequalities contribute to social differences and perpetuate differences in power Empirical evidence - ANSWER- scientific evidence obtained by careful observation and experimentation Scientific method - ANSWER- 1. ask a question 2. research existing sources 3. formulate a hypothesis 4. design and conduct a studdy 5. draw conclusions 6. report results variables - ANSWER- factors that can change in an experiment operational definition - ANSWER- a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables. For example, human intelligence may be operationally defined as what an intelligence test measures. validity - ANSWER- The extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. reliability - ANSWER- Ability of a test to yield very similar scores for the same individual over repeated testings hypothesis - ANSWER- An educated guess independent vs dependent variables - ANSWER- Dependent depends on production, Independent demand comes from market interpretive framework - ANSWER- a sociological research approach that seeks indepth understanding of a topic or subject through observation or interaction; this approach is not based on hypothesis testing hawthorne effect - ANSWER- people changing their behavior because they know they are being watched as part of a study. replication - ANSWER- Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding extends to other participants and circumstances. Ideal vs real culture - ANSWER- Values or beliefs that are expected within a culture vs. actual happening in the culture literature review - ANSWER- a thorough search through previously published studies relevant to a particular topic survey - ANSWER- A technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group. population - ANSWER- A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area sample - ANSWER- A relatively small proportion of people who are chosen in a survey so as to be representative of the whole. random sample - ANSWER- a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion respondents - ANSWER- persons who provide data for analysis through interviews or questionnaires quantitative data - ANSWER- Data associated with mathematical models and statistical techniques used to analyze spatial locat