Introduction to Sociology
This is the scientific and systematic study of groups and group interactions, societies and social interactions, from small groups to very large groups.
What is sociology?
This is a fixed and formal system of observation and measurement of social and physical phenomena that builds on a well-established and institutionally accepted body of knowledge to create a new and deeper understanding of the topic of inquiry. The results from the scientific method do not rest on opinion but are based on empirical evidence that can be tested for accuracy
What is the scientific research method?
The entire way of life of a people.
What is culture?
This is the process of learning and internalizing our culture.
What is socialization?
Any behavior that violates cultural norms.
What is deviant?
This is a large group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact with one another, and who share a common culture.
What is society?
As a sociologist we use this tool to ensure we remain unbiased when conducting social research.
What is objectivity?
The origins of the Western concept of culture came from which historical circumstance?
What is European contact with non-Europeans?
family, peers, school, religion, mass media
What are agents of socialization?
Norms are enforced through _____.
What are sanctions?
This is the ability to look beyond the individual as the cause of success and failure, to see how one’s society influences her/his/their life.
What is the sociological imagination?
This research approach explains the social world through numbers and statistics.
What is quantitative?
Before the concept of culture was discovered by anthropologists, Western scientists thought that cultural differences like dress, religion, and family organization, were caused by _____?
What is race?
According to sociologists, this is key to to becoming a fully functioning person in society. Hint: Genie
What is socialization, or nurture?
According to Durkheim, deviance brings people ______.
What is together?
Name at least one macro-level factor related to homelessness.
What is/are companies that outsource labor, lack of affordable housing, decline in wages, and deinstitutionalization.
When we think about the risks of human harm and benefits of knowledge when doing research with people we are using what?
What is research ethics?
Forms of body decoration, music and dance, births, weddings, and funerals, the importance of family.
What are cultural universals?
This sociological paradigm states that the self is developed through social interaction.
What is symbolic interactionism?
Conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion.
These are the fixed and enduring part of the social landscape that includes norms, rules, social roles and hierarchies, institutions, and culture, which all work in concert to help determine the ways individuals and groups think, act, and feel.
What are social structures?
Exotic dancers' experiences were shared in Barnett's research, which employed this approach?
What is qualitative, or fieldwork, or interpretive?
This happens when we find ourselves in a new culture, and we feel disorientation and discomfort.
What is culture shock?
This type of resocialization occurs against our will.
What is involuntary?
Price fixing, tax evasion, occupational fraud
What is white collar crime?