Sociology and Social Methods
In a sociological study, the following statement is an example of this: "The more positive reinforcement a parent gives a child, the better they do in school."
What is a hypothesis?
This type of society relies on permanent tools for survival, and expanded due to innovations such as crop rotation and fertilizer.
What is an agricultural society?
Buying your daughter a toy kitchen to play with is an example of socializing her into this kind of role.
What is a gender role?
Sandy is standing in line for Kanye West tickets. The line wraps around the block, spilling into the streets and crowding store windows. Sandy is part of this.
What is an aggregate?
Bernie Madoff, recently sentenced to 150 years in prison for creating a Ponzi scheme, was convicted of this form of crime.
What is corporate crime?
On the list below, this is NOT a step in the scientific method:
1. Research existing sources
2. Report results
3. Receive corroboration from the field
4. Formulate a hypothesis
What is receive corroboration from the field?
This is the opposite of ethnocentrism.
What is xenocentrism?
Baby Marla is always well-dressed. She has ribbons, bows, and frills all over her dresses and even in her hair. Her mother, who is worried that people might mistake Marla for a little boy, is determined to communicate to the world that she has a baby girl. Marla's mother's actions fit this sociological paradigm.
What is symbolic interactionism?
The US government is a highly structured and hierarchical organization with a division of labor led by a handful of elite members who make important decisions. In other words, it is this type of organization.
What is a bureaucracy?
This theory of crime addresses the relationship between having socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptable means to reach those goals.
What is Merton's Strain Theory?
This is the practice of remaining impartial, without bias or judgment, during the course of a study and in publishing results.
What is value neutrality?
According to Marx, the means of societal change exist in the tension between these two groups.
Who are the bourgeoisie (Capitalist/wealthy class) and the proletariat (working class)?
Sumaira is scared that she will not find a job in the current economy. She decides to be a business major and attend one of the top business schools in the country. Upon graduation, she is hired by a major investment banking firm in New York. Sumaira has completed this.
What is anticipatory socialization?
In the 2010 film, The Social Network, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was portrayed as a leader who was goal-oriented, issuing orders and assigning tasks. Zuckerberg likely uses this style of leadership.
What is authoritarian?
This is a crime committed against a person because of their race, religion, or other characteristics.
What is a hate crime?
This is a philosophical and theoretical framework used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them.
What is a paradigm?
The condition in which the individual is isolated and divorced from his or her society, work, or sense of self.
What is alienation?
According to Mead the path of development includes the play stage, game stage, the generalized other stage, and this first stage, where children imitate the parents and others around them.
What is the preparatory state?
Christine is president of her Improvisation Comedy Troupe. When making decisions about booking gigs, rehearsal spaces, and call-times, Christine leaves the troupe to decide for themselves. Christine is this kind of leader.
What is laissez-faire?
This theorist believed that some deviance within society is necessary because it challenges people's views.
Who is the functionalist, Emile Durkheim?
Tyson is researching whether actors on prime-time television and hit movies negatively impact teenagers' body images. He is going undercover at a local high school to observe and participate with the students to better understand the world they live in. Tyson's research method is this.
What is field research or participant observation?
What are mores?
His theory explains how the actions of society help shape personalities throughout the eight basic life stages.
Who is Erik Erikson?
A famous socialite is court-ordered to enter a rehabilitation center to eliminate her drug addiction. The socialite is about to become a member of this.
What is a coercive organization?
Ally's father was arrested for trafficking drugs, and her brother was arrested for possession of meth. Ally has been arrested three times for marijuana possession. This theory would explain Ally's experience.
What is differential association theory?