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SOCL 101
Test 1 2-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the four patterns of suicide in ninetheenth century Europe that durkheim identified | egoistic suicie, altruistic suicide, fatalistic suicide, anomic suicide |
| What is the role of social ties in durkheims suicide | effect of too tight or too loose social ties can cause social ties |
| how would you explain the suicide patterns among young adults today | suicide patterns increased for young adults and in the past there were a small amount of young adults commiting suicide |
| does american society today tend ot be more 'individualistic' or 'communal'? | individualistic |
| what do the differences between individualistic or communal mean | today society is based on individual rights rather than communal rights |
| explain what C. Writght Mills means my sociological imagination | social stuctures, individual, history |
| what does Mills mean by 'social mileu' | social environment |
| why is mills concerned about the speed of social change | confuses people, harder for an individual to know their place in society, retreat into themselves and out of society |
| how does mills distinguish between troubles and issues | troubles are personal issues are public |
| how does mills explain troubles vs. issues in his 4 examples of the use of the sociological imagination | divorce, war, unemployment, urbanization |
| what is a theory | explanation of social phenomeon |
| what is structure-functionalism and how does it work | caused by urbanization and industrialization so much social change so we don't have as tight of family ties |
| what is conflict theory | economical shift between men and women |
| who developed the conflict theory | karl marx |
| what is the core idea of conflict theory | economic social change |
| what is the principle difference between between a functionalist and a conflict explanation of a social issue | functionalist deals with urbanization and industrialization while conflict theory deals with economics |
| explain how a feminist sociologist might use conflict theory to explain a particular social issue | women no longer have to rely on men for financials |
| what is symbolic-interaction theory | meanings of words change and therefore changes what the actions mean |
| on which aspects of society does a researcher focus when using this explanation | focuses on social stigma and feelings based (what words mean and the feelings attached to them) |
| what is the difference between a micro and macro explanation | macro is modernist and micro is post-modernist |
| explain the rising american divorce rate using each of the three main sociological perspectives | structural- family ties lose with the increase of urbanization and inductrialization conflict- women have financial ability to divorce symbolic interaction - less shame surrounding divorce |
| is it possible to use more than one theorietical explanation in figuring out a social issue | yes, all 3 explanations have an impact at the same time |
| does what we know to be 'real' ever change? | yes, different perspectives change change what it means for something to be 'real' |
| can 'reality' be ambiguous | yes |
| what is meant by the thomas maxin :what we define as real is real in its consequences?" | perspective determines consequences an individual interpretation can change consequence with the same action |
| what les can we draw from the research exmaple given in class about how teachers reponsded to the 'spurters' or academically girlted children in their classes? | what you define as 'real' is 'real' in its consequence consciously or unconsciously the teachers that the gifted children were really gifted children and it then changed their actions towards the gifted children, therefore making them have better scores |
| are some people/groups more influential in defining reality than others | those who have high power and control the resources |
| how do the people influencing reality maintain their influence | monopolising power and resources |
| how does qualitative research differ from quantitative research | qualitative is based more on observation quantitative is based more on statistics |
| name one strength and one weakness of field research | strength - authenticity weakness - human error, assumptions |
| which type of research focuses on the 'actors' point of view | qualitative |
| define culture | how we do things |
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