This method depends on asking every participating subject the same questions so that data can be collected and organized.
What is a survey?
A number of people gathered who do not identify with one another.
What is a crowd or an aggregate?
A person's sense of enduring personal identity or unique consciousness that develops over time through social interaction.
What is the self?
What are the relationships in a network called that are most likely to help you locate a new job?
Weak Ties.
A testable statement about a proposed relationship between two variables.
What is a hypothesis?
The replacement of customs and superstitions with calculated rules and regulations, especially economic calculations.
What is rationalization?
This relationship looks mathematically correct, but it makes no sense in reality.
What is a spurious correlation?
Strongly held norms that regulate or seek to guide moral behavior and reflect the values of a culture.
What are mores?
When the child moves beyond imitating behavior and can act out the role expected.
What is Mead's play stage?
This type of organization depends heavily on offering predictable, standardized products in the most efficient way for the lowest price.
What is McDonaldization?
The ways we engage in strategic presentations of the self to others in social settings.
What is Dramaturgy?
All participants in research should be told the purpose of the research, the clear identity of the researchers, and warned of any dangers to offer them this.
What is informed consent?
Believing that your culture is the natural measure against which all others should be judged.
What is Ethnocentrism?
Hierarchy, impersonality, technical specialization, written rules and records, are part of this organization.
What is bureaucracy?