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Sociology 100
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The scientific study of our societies and behavior in the many groups that make up a society? | Sociology |
| What is society? | Groups of people interacting together. |
| What did the industrial revolution result in? | A need for higher education |
| Society is divided into? | Sectors |
| Sectors are divided into? | Social institutions |
| What is determined by social location? | Social context |
| What system is used to determine your social location? | stratification system |
| Define social environment. | The expectations or what is considered "normal" in a persons social world. |
| Sociological imagination is ? | The ability to perceive how social forces influence your own life and those of the people around you. |
| What did C. Wright Mills state? | People often believe that their lives cn be explained mainly in terms of their personal successes or losses. |
| What behavior can change from on social environment to another? | normative |
| Every culture has its own _____; own ideas of how the world operates. | science |
| What is western science based on? | finding the truth |
| 3 things where truth comes from. | Parents teaching, religion, hallucinations |
| Scientific method involves what 3 things? define | Observation-must be empirical, gathering of data, generalizaiton-take all the data and look for relationships, patterns, irregularalities, theory-explantion states why this happened -predictions spefifies conditions in which something will happen |
| Where are concepts at? What are they? | In our brains, ideas, mental constructs; simplified |
| Concepts are not ____, they are representations of _________ | reality, reality |
| What are the 8 basic steps in scientific research? | Define problem, literature research, formulate questions, ethical issues, select a method, gather data, analyze data, develop conclusions |
| Concepts, variables and correlations are all ________ or science. | elements |
| What are variables? | Characteristics that vary from case to case. Ie: frequency of divorce, marriage... |
| What are the two types of variables? define! | dependant variable- depends on other variables. Independant variables - causes the change in the dependant variables |
| What is correlation | A relationship between two variables. |
| Why does correlation NOT equal cause and affect. | Because there may be a third variable. |
| What is the term for false or misleading when talking about correlation? | Spurious correlation |
| What two types of correllation are there? | Positive correlation- variable move in same direction and negative correllation - variables move in opposite directions |
| A statement that expresses an informed guess in regards to the possible relationship between 2 variables. | Hypothesis |
| All propositions(hypothesis) have to be _______. | falsifiable |
| A whole se of validated hypothesis is called what? | theory |
| Theoretical perspectives are sets of what? | Interrelated theories that offer explanations for important aspects of social behavior. |
| Science is a collection of _________. | methods |
| When two or more independant people have to be able to come up with the same results, in science this is called? | Self-correcting |
| What are two ethical issues of social science? | Right to privacy and right to know |
| Why is human behavior complex? | So many different variables affect it. |
| What is reactivity? | When someone knows their being observed, their behavior changes. |
| Behavior ______ over time, between areas, regions ect... | changes |
| Two methodologies used in social science? | Participant observation and unobtrusive measures. |
| What kind of observation is it when researchers insert themselves into the environment that their studying? | participant observation |
| What kind of observational technique measures the effects of behavior with minimal intrusion into actual social settings? | unobtrusive measures |
| What do you have to be able to control all of the variable in? | experiments |
| What kind of research gets information from people about their behavior, attitudes and those of others? | survey |
| When every member of a group is asked the same questions, what kind of survey is this? | Census |
| What kid of survey asks a randomly selected, appropriate sized group the same quesitons? | Sample survey |
| When you set out to invaladate a hypothesis what kind of hypothisis are you doing? | null hypothesis |
| What kind of survey is carried out monthly to 50,000 households to keep information up to date? | Current population survey (CPS) |
| What 3 sets of people do they surveys have a hard time covering? | homeless, immigrants, and migrant workers |
| What does age group mean? | cohort |
| 15th century was known as the? | Age of discovery |
| Europe began exploring during the? | Age of discovery |
| New discoveries, such as plants and animals resulted in? | exploitation |
| Biblical explanation could not explain the _________ differences. | language |
| 17th century was know as what? | Age of Science |
| What two things were invented to help science take off? | telescope and microscope |
| During the age of science,science began to form ______ order. | social |
| What was it called when royalty was at the top and peasants at the bottome? | feudalism |
| What system states that if you were born a peasant you will always be a peasant? | caste |
| What century was the enlightenment (age of reason) | 18th century |
| Social philosaphers redifined _____ role. | gods |
| Society was created by _______, not ______. | people, god |
| If society was created by people, then people can _____ it. | change |
| The 19th century was known as the? | Industrial revolution |
| What formed the Industrial revolution? | Early trends |
| Applying a scientific method to human affairs led to ______ science. | social |
| Technilogical changes led to? name 2 things? | increased agricultural production, factory production. |
| What was a draw back to factory production? | More product than the local market could support. |
| Caste system changed to ? | Class system |
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