Theorist
the theorist who believed it was almost impossible to use the scientific methods to accurately predict the behavior of groups/people?
Was Max Weber ?
Sociologists use tried and true methods of research such as...
Experiments, surveys, and field research
A nations flag in regards to culture.
What is a symbol?
What was the ethical concern with the Tuskegee Experiment?
The Tuskegee men were not given treatment and were denied information
When study subjects behave in a certain manner due to awareness of being observed.
What is Hawthorne effect?
Who was the theorist who published the book “Rules of the Sociological Method“ in 1895
Émile Durkheim
The scientific method is an essential 6 step process in research that includes
Asking a question, research existing sources, Formulating a hypothesis, design and conduct a study, drawing conclusions, and report results
What is ethnocentricity?
What was the ethical concern with around Laud Humphreys?
He deceived people of his identity and intentions in his experiments. He catfished them for research.
Participating and observing thinking and behavior in a social setting.
What is ethnography?
The theorist who named the study of social patterns positivism
Auguste Comte
In scientific research we formulate hypotheses and include two different variables titled
what is an independent variable and dependent variable
McDonald’s restaurants are found in almost every country around the world. What is this an example of?
What is globalization?
Some of the patients are potentially not receiving medicine that could be helping them. The other side is that by not telling the patients they get unbiased results.
The gap of time between the introduction of material culture and nonmaterial culture‘s acceptance of it.
What is culture lag?
The theorist who favored the idea that the government allowed market forces to control capitalism
Who was Herbert Spencer
The American Sociological Association (ASA) has formal guidelines when conducting sociological research consisting of principles and ethical standards also known as…
Code of ethics
A description of the interactions of human beings within any society.
What are paradigms?
What was the ethical concern with the Milgram Experiment?
The ethical concern were about the intense emotional distress the teachers had to be put through because they felt they were hurting others.
Groups that share identification apart from society‘s majority.
the theorist who created “the looking-glass self“ theory which explained how others check themselves against social standards by comparing themselves with others and their reactions
who is Charles Herbert Cooley
The focus of deconstruction of existing sociological research and theory is considered
critical sociology
The way that people understand the world based on their form of language.
What was the ethical dilemma with Henrietta Lacks?
She went to the hospital with Cancer and the scientists took and used her Cancer cells for research. They took and used her cells without her consent.
The idea that social researchers should strive for subjectivity.
What is antipositivism?