Into to Sociology
This is the systematic study of society.
What is Sociology?
These types of research are good for gaining lots of information quickly, but limit participants answers.
What are questionnaires and/or surveys?
This type of culture includes physical objects such as books, buildings, or clothing.
What is Material Culture?
This is the world event many sociologists see as the beginning of most modern institutions.
What is The Industrial Revolution?
Taking action against a group of people based on stereotypes & feelings of prejudice.
What is Discrimination?
This is defined as a group that lives in a common geographic area that share a common culture.
What is Society?
An experiment is ___ if it measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is Valid?
This group phenomenon is when collective feelings on a topic tend to become extreme after group discussions.
What is Group Polarization?
This approach to the institution of family sees them serve important functions such as child rearing & social organization.
What is Structural-Functional Approach?
This is a generalized belief about a group of people.
What is a Stereotype?
Sociologist C. Wright Mills came up with this theory using the Great Depression as an example.
What is the Sociological Imagination?
This group is given the placebo in a drug testing study.
What is the control group?
This is the idea that people either blame one's situation or disposition as a reason for their actions.
What is Fundamental Attribution Theory?
This approach to the institution of religion explains that it diverts attention away from inequality & tells people to endure inequality.
What is Social-Conflict Approach?
This is an unjustified attitude toward a group and its members.
What is Prejudice?
This approach sees society as a complex system, with different parts working together.
What is Structural-Functionalism?
This variable is the outcome of the experiment, which is recorded by researchers.
What is the Dependent Variable?
This famous experiment was said to be an eye test, but really tested an individual's ability to conform to groups.
What is Asch's Line Conformity Experiment?
This event that has changed work is ongoing & started in the 1950's with the rise of computers and technology.
What is The Information Revolution?
This is the tendency to favor one's own group at the expense of another group.
What is In-Group Bias?
This approach sees society as an arena that generates conflict, which generates change.
What is Social-Conflict Theory?
This ethical principle is done at the end of an experiment, especially when there is misdirection involved.
What is debriefing?
Name one way in which one's ACTIONS impact their ATTITUDES.
What is Foot-In-The-Door, Role Playing, or Cognitive Dissonance?
Name one function of schooling in the United States.
What is Cultural Innovation, Socialization, Social Integration, Social Placement, etc?
This is a system by which society ranks types of people in a hierarchy.
What is Social Stratification?