Concepts
Service workers are often tasked with manufacturing emotions in themselves and/or others – for example, a jewelry store attendant summoning excitement and optimism for customers buying a wedding ring. What term defines this?
Emotional Labor
Which theorist defined history in terms of class struggle, giving rise to conflict theory approaches?
Karl Marx
What are the two 200-level criminology intro courses?
224 and 225
What kind of data is being collected when you rank your agreement to a statement from 1 to 5?
Ordinal data
A company has hired many employees who are black men and many employees who are white women – but it keeps rejecting applications from black women. What principle was used to analyze this real-life court case?
Intersectionality
Durkheim used a statistical and demographic analysis to demonstrate that suicide rates were independently affected by low degrees of systemic social integration. What term did he use to describe the state of normlessness resulting from this lack of integration?
Anomie
Which sociologist wrote about social capital, cultural capital, and economic capital?
Pierre Bourdieu
What Tory room number is the Sociology main office?
5-21
What research method involves the researcher immersing themselves in a particular setting?
Participant observation
What interdisciplinary set of theories address the social construction of race-based systemic injustices?
Critical race theory
Which concept by Bourdieu describes the way that people perceive and respond to the social world they inhabit, by way of their personal habits, skills, and disposition of character?
Habitus
Which theorist used the term “discourses” to refer to historically contingent social systems that systematically form the objects of which they speak?
Michel Foucault
Who is the current (interim) department chair?
Kevin Haggerty
What square do we talk about in SOC 210? Options: Punnett, Chi, Churchill
Chi
What term did Edward Said use to describe the process by which Western scholars and artists created a distorted image of the Middle East “domesticated for European use”?
Orientalism
Max Weber argued that the ethics of ascetic Protestantism contributed to the emergence of modern _____?
Capitalism
Which theorist formulated a theory of bureaucracy meant to be efficient and predictable, based on principles such as hierarchy and division of labor?
Max Weber
What's the worst building SOC classes are held in?
What is the CASSR capstone course?
SOC 415
Which theory argues that crime is a response to discrepancy between social goals and means?
Strain theory
John Griffiths questioned whether the sociology of law should ask what the traffic rules of English law are, or how order is maintained on English roads. He deviates from his formalist colleagues by defining the sociology of law with the principle of…?
Social Control
Which theorist wrote about the concept of the cyborg as rejecting the rigid boundaries between human and non-human?
Donna Haraway
Who is the graduate chair of studies?
Dominique Clement
What is the second stage of qualitative coding in grounded theory, where relationships between categories and subcategories are identified?
Axial coding
Foucault theorized the relationship between power and ____?
Knowledge