Sociological Theory & Essential Assumptions
Research in Sociology
Culture
Socialization
Deviance
100
The statement that social life is dynamic assumes this about society.
What is it changes over time?
100
Scientific studies are guided by a theoretical approach and based on this.
What is empirical investigation?
100
This is one thing that constitutes culture.
What are values, material goods, norms, language, revered symbols?
100
These are the socially defined expectations for a person in a given social position.
What are social roles?
100
Modes of action that do not conform to norms or values is called this.
What is deviance?
200
This theorist described the Protestant Ethic.
Who is Weber?
200
This is the first stage of the research process.
What is define the problem?
200
Rules of hygiene are an example of this.
What is a cultural universal?
200
Secondary socialization occurs during this period of a person’s life.
What is early childhood through adult life?
200
A person snickering at someone dressed unconventionally is an example of this.
What is an informal sanction?
300
This is one thing social theory is rooted in.
What is social change, social conflict, and social problems?
300
The variable a sociologist is trying to understand better is also called this.
What is the dependent variable?
300
This term refers to the phenomenon when different cultures absorbed into the mainstream culture.
What is assimilation?
300
The characteristics other people attribute to an individual are called this.
What is social identity?
300
Labeling theory says that people become deviant when this happens.
What is labels are attached to their behavior?
400
Aspects of social life that shape our actions as individuals are called this.
What are social facts?
400
When variables are related but not necessarily responsible for change in the other they are said to be this.
What is correlated?
400
These are two types of alternative cultures.
What is subculture [distinct] and counterculture [reject]?
400
This is the main agent of primary socialization.
What is family?
400
Durkheim states that anomie performs these two functions.
What is adaptive & boundary maintenance?
500
Marx’s dialectic is also referred to as this.
What is the materialist conception of history?
500
When a researcher works out the implications of collected data and relates them to other research they are doing this.
What is interpreting the results?
500
When a researcher evaluates a culture by its own standards it is called this.
What is cultural relativism?
500
This term is used to describe the characteristics an individual takes over because they are the general values of a given group.
What is generalized other?
500
This is the name of the prison designed to discipline and punish while maximizing the efficiency of power.
What is panopticon?
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