Sociological Imagination
This sociologist coined the term "sociological imagination" to describe the ability to see the connection between personal experiences and larger social structures.
Who is C. Wright Mills?
This sociological perspective views society as a system of interrelated parts, where each part serves a function to maintain stability and social order.
What is functionalism?
Whatstep in the sociological research process, where a researcher identifies an area of interest or a problem to be studied.
What is step 1
This sociological research method involves asking participants a series of questions, often in the form of a questionnaire or interview.
What is a survey?
What is a value?
What is a abstract ideal?
The sociological imagination allows individuals to see how personal troubles, like unemployment, are connected to this broader level of societal issues.
What are public issues?
This sociological theory focuses on the struggle between groups for power and resources, highlighting inequalities and societal conflicts.
What is conflict theory?
what step involves creating a specific, testable statement or question that the research will aim to answer?
what is step 3?
A researcher wants to study the relationship between income and education level. They use a representative group and assign some to a control group while others receive a treatment to see the effect. What sociological research method is this?
What is an experiment?
What are norms?
What are rules and principles that people are expected to observe and follow?
Using the sociological imagination, what are we suppose to compare?
This perspective in sociology examines society through everyday social interactions and the meanings individuals attach to objects, symbols, and behaviors.
What is symbolic interactionism?
True or False: Research can identify a problem and then start to define the variable the they want to measure/observe, then create a design for it?
False, before defining the variables to measure, the first must do a literature review?
Bonus 100: What step is this?
What is the pros and cons of standardized vs open-ended questions in surveys
What is Standardization:
Pro: Easy to Count and Compare
Cons: Limited Info
What is Open-ended question:
Pro: More rich info
Con: Hard to compare and standardize answers
True or False: Norms and Values reflect each other
True! They often work together to shape our behavior
When someone loses their job due to economic downturns, the sociological imagination helps them recognize that it’s not just a personal failure, but a result of this larger social process.
What is the economic structure (or economic conditions)?
According to this sociological perspective, marriage is seen as a social institution that contributes to the stability of society by fulfilling functions like socialization of children, emotional support, and economic cooperation.
What is functionalism
In a study examining the effects of social media on self-esteem, what step did researchers do when they decided to survey 500 teenagers. This stage of the research process involves choosing the specific techniques for gathering and analyzing data.
What is choosing a research method or step 4 of the research process?
What is a pro and con of ethnographies?
Pro: Rich Information
Con: Cannot Generalize findings
If I view the world as north, south, east and west instead of up, down, left, right, one could say I only see the from that perception? What is this called
What is linguistic-relativity hypothesis?
Miley and her whole class keeps getting for parking on the grass, even though there is no where else to park on campus? Using the sociological imagination, what conclusion could we come up with
In a factory, workers are being paid low wages while the owners make large profits. According to this sociological perspective, this inequality is a result of a larger struggle between the ruling class and the working class.
What is conflict theory
Name all research process steps in order ;)
What is:
1: define the research problem
2: review the literature
3: Make the problem precise
4: Choose a research design
5: Carry out research
6: Interpret the results
7: Report Findings
Bonus 200: tell me why any of these steps are important
1. What is a sample
2. What kind of sample do we need for a survey to be accurate
3. How could one achieve the type of sample needed from the previous question.
1. A proportion of a population
2. A representative sample ( a sample that represent that population of interest)
3. Random sampling ( a sampling technique to where everyone has the same chance of being picked)
What is an example of material culture?
What is anything physical in a culture? Eiffel Tower , Leaning tower of Piza