Research
Definitions
Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Goffman
Groups and Culture
Deviance and Crime
100
This type of question limits the possible responses.
What is close-ended?
100
Views society as a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together.
What is a functionalist?
100
Conflict between social groups is the engine for social change for this sociologist.
Who is Marx?
100
A group that provides standards by which an individual can judge his own accomplishments.
What is a reference group?
100
Deviance clarifies moral boundaries and affirms norms according to this perspective.
What is functionalism?
200
This research method of social research might involve shifting between participating in a social situation and being an observer.
What is ethnography? (will accept participant observation)
200
The values, norms, and practices of the MOST POWERFUL group within a society.
What is dominant culture?
200
Erving Goffman theorized social life as a kind of con game, in which each individual works to control the information that others have of her/him.
What is impression management?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! While designer labels on purses and athletic logos are status symbols, they are also both examples of this type of culture.
What is material culture?
200
Violations of social norms that are not written into law.
What is deviance?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!Some sociologists include lengthy direct quotes from their research subjects. They often do this in order to better present the complex detail and nuance of the social worlds they have studied. This is an example of this type of research (not method).
What is qualitative?
300
This three-step model includes the following: We imagine how we look to others. We try to interpret others’ reactions to our presence and our presentation of ourselves. We experience ourselves based on our perception of others’ opinions.
What is the looking-glass self?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!!These institutions are what Max Weber believed characterize modern industrialized societies.
What are bureaucracies?
300
All over Los Angeles, cars can be seen sporting a bumper sticker that says, “My favorite teams are UCLA and whoever is playing USC.” This an example of hostility towards these groups.
What are out groups?
300
Stealing avocados, or almost any other agricultural product, is a felony in California if the product is worth more than $100. Supporters of the law believe that it is the only way to protect farmers from vagrants and transients who can ruin the viability of small farms. However if you believe that such laws also target homeless people who are simply trying to eat, and that they are punished because they have almost no power within society, then you probably follow this perspective.
What is a conflict theorist?
400
Sociologists who study gender report that the “women’s wage,” the amount that women make compared to men doing the same job, is around 78 cents on the dollar. Finding this figure required researchers to gather data from a large number of men and women and compare average salaries. Which is this type of research.
What is quantitative research?
400
This agent of socialization has the most enduring, life-long impact on the individual.
What is the family? (or primary group)
400
This term was coined by Durkheim and meant normlessness, or a loss of social connections.
What is anomie?
400
It’s all too common to see someone driving a car on a busy freeway while cursing and gesturing at another motorist whose poor driving has offended them. Cursing and gesturing are not very nice, but are also these.
What are negative sanctions?
400
The goal of success is shared by a majority of people, but not everyone has equal means to achieve that goal. This is the basic premise of this deviance theory.
What is strain theory?
500
Pam Fishman studied conversations between heterosexual couples to determine how power is created and maintained through face-to-face interactions on an everyday basis. Given this information, her approach, not research method, was this.
What is microsociological?
500
A POSITION in a social hierarchy that comes with a set of expectations.
What is a status?
500
A belief in heaven as a reward for earthly suffering serve the interests of the ruling class by keeping the lower class from demanding better treatment in this life according to this theorist.
Who is Marx?
500
Groups have great power to induce conformity, as shown in this experiment dealing with peer pressure.
What is the Asch experiment?
500
This theory of deviance considers the way that interpersonal relationships help to predict deviant behavior, or “associating with deviant peers” had a dramatic effect on a wide range of deviant behaviors, including increasing “the likelihood of serious substance abuse almost 32 times”.
What is differential association?
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