Potpourri
Theories
Research
Ethics
Culture, Values, and Norms
100
The scientific study of society, social institutions,and social interactions.
What is sociology?
100
Theory that is focused on small scale interactions that create social meaning.
What is symbolic interactionism?
100
The type of research that is best for establishing relationships between variables.
What is quantitative research?
100
Do no harm, obtain informed consent, and voluntary partication.
What are the rules of ethics?
100
Reflective of cultural values.
What are social norms? Bonus if someone can think of one :)
200
A way of thinking that helps one engage in sociological thought.
What is the sociological imagination?
200
Covers Marxist and feminist theory.
What is Conflict Theory
200
Here's an example: An increase in tennis shoes is followed by an increase in ER visits for ankle injuries.
What is a (positive) correlation?
200
This research revealed racism in the medical community.
What is the "Tuskeegee Syphilis Study"
200
The way of life created by humans that may include material and non-material things: meanings, practices, and products.
What is culture?
300
Problems that affect individuals.
What are troubles?
300
View that society is stable that shares values and, though inequalities exist, they benefit society.
What is Functionalism Theory?
300
The best research method to find out how many teens are engaging in delinquent behavior.
What is a survey?
300
The committee that reviews all research studies before they are conducted.
What is the IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
400
A complex group of interdependent positions that perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time; helps shape behaviors of groups and people.
What is a social institution?
400
This major theory may be used to explain why women's pay is .77 compared to every $1 men make.
What is Conflict Theory?
400
Correlated variables, occuring in proper order, and accounting for other factors that may impact variables.
What is needed to establish a causal relationship?
400
Study that had ethical issues, but helped de-criminalize homosexuality?
What is Laud Humphrey's "Tearoom Trade"?
400
A system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect.
What is ideology?
500
Awareness of differences accross cultures without making value judgements.
What is cultural relativism?
500
The theory that would be best suited to examine how bureaucracy works.
What is Functionalism?
500
Interviews, participant observation, and possibly content analysis and experiments.
What are qualitative methods?
500
A contagious sickness, according to the "Boys Beware" PSA video.
What is homosexuality?
500
The belief that your culture is better than everyone else's while comparing everyone else to your ideals.
What is ethnocentrism?
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