Origins of Sociology
This is the systemic study of human society
What is Sociology?
This approach sees society as a complex system, with different parts working together.
What is Structural-Functionalism?
These types of research are good for gaining lots of information quickly, but limit participants answers.
What are questionnaires and/or surveys?
This is the model used to create Hypotheses.
What is an If-Then statement?
This group is usually in charge of reviewing an experiment before results are published in a scientific journal.
What is an IRB? (Institutional Review Board)
This is categorized as problems that occur to many people living in a society.
What are societal issues?
This approach sees society as an arena that generates conflict, which generates change.
What is Social-Conflict Theory?
This type of research method gives us in-depth analysis of a person's life, but cannot often be replicated due to ethical reasons.
What is a Case Study?
This variable is the outcome of the experiment, which is recorded by researchers.
What is the Dependent Variable?
This ethical principle explains that participants should not experience any physical, emotional, or psychological damage during the experiment.
What is protection from harm or discomfort?
This is defined as a group that lives in a common geographic area that share a common culture.
What is Society?
This approach sees society as a series of 1:1 interactions.
What is Symbolic-Interaction Theory?
This type of test uses images to gain insight on what a person is thinking, but is very subjective.
What is a Projection Test?
This is the variable that is controlled by the researchers.
What is the Independent Variable?
This ethical principle allows the researcher to know the identity of the participants, but not to share them in published research.
What is Confidentiality?
This is categorized as problems that occur to individuals.
What are personal troubles?
Give one example of Symbolic-Interaction Theory.
Answers may vary.
Handshakes, Posture, Eye contact, Thumbs up, etc.
This type of research is good for developmental studies, but are very expensive & time consuming.
What are Longitudinal studies?
This group is given the placebo in a drug testing study.
What is the control group?
This principle is done at the end of an experiment, especially when there is misdirection involved.
What is debriefing?
Sociologist C. Wright Mills came up with this theory using the Great Depression as an example.
What is the Sociological Imagination?
Give one example of Social-Conflict Theory
Answers may vary.
Sports, Wage Gap, Redlining, etc.
This type of research helps us find data that is statistically related, but does not prove causation.
What are Correlational studies?
This procedure is done to ensure that there will not be any researcher OR participant bias involved in the study.
What is a double-blind procedure?
This principle explains that participants must give approval to be in the experiment, but can drop out at any time.
What is informed consent?