Causation
Theoretical Perspectives
Correlation
Deviance
Grab Bag
100
The belief that events occur in predictable ways and that one event leads to another.
What is Causation?
100
The ability of one party to get other parties to do its will
What is Power?
100
A measure of the relationship between two variables
What is Correlation?
100
the fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.
What is Deviance?
100
This is a way of describing the fast track from school to prison in gang ridden urban areas
What is the school to prison pipeline?
200
A characteristic that is subject to change
What is a Variable?
200
language, norms, values, beliefs, knowledge, symbols, and physical objects shared by a group or society
What is Culture?
200
This type of correlation exists if both the independent variable and the dependent variable change in the same direction
What is Positive?
200
A form of social deviance that is sanctioned by members of society but not by government officials.
What is Informal Deviance?
200
A multiple choice question is a form of this type of question.
What is Closed-Ended?
300
___________ variable; a characteristic that is defined by its presence or absence in a catergory
What is Qualitative?
300
A sociological theory that our structure depends on everything depending on each other and working together.
What is Functionalism?
300
This type of correlation exists if both the independent variable and the dependent variable change in the opposite directions
What is Negative?
300
This type of social control is used by society when social deviants are given dirty looks or avoided by others in society.
What is Informal Social Control?
300
This type of question asks for a written opinion explaining the answer.
What is Open-ended?
400
____________ variable; a characteristic that causes something to occur
What is Independent?
400
Broad ideas about what most people in society consider desirable.
What are values?
400
The existence of a correlation does not necessarily mean...
What is Causation or Cause and Effect?
400
Acts of social deviance that are sanctioned by the government through the use of laws and enforced by the police.
What is Crime?
400
This type of persuasion influences people by their identical cues, like a speaker's physical attractiveness or personal reliability.
What is Peripheral Route Persuasion?
500
a variable that changes the relationship between an independent and a dependent variable.
What is Intervening?
500
An approach to theoretical sociology emphasizing the role of conflict, competition, and constraint within a society.
What is Conflict Therory
500
a relationship between two variables that is actually caused by a third factor.
What is Spurious correlation?
500
This is the way sociologists should view deviance.
What is non judgmentally or without personal bias?
500
The tendency for people to more readily comply with a certain big request after they’ve first agreed to smaller, more innocuous requests.
What is the foot in the door phenomenon?
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