Chapter 1 - The Sociological Imagination
What is the concept that refers to an ability to challenge and question stereotypes?
What is the sociological imagination?
Which term did Karl Marx use to describe money or other assets that can be used for business investments?
What is capital?
A tentative prediction researchers make that they will test in a project is a ________?
What is hypothesis?
What term refers to the external forces, most notably social hierarchies, norms, and institutions, that provide the context for individual and group action?
What is social structure?
What is the belief that humans are separate from and superior to the natural world?
What is anthropocentrism?
What concept refers to any relationship between individuals or groups that is unequal and provides members of one group more status and power than others?
What is social hierarchy?
When it comes to social theories, sociology is unique because it has multiple and often ______ social theories.
What is competing?
If you are doing a project that relies on numerical data, you are doing _________ research.
What is quantitative?
What term refers to the ability to have access to opportunities or claims on rewards?
What is privelege?
What are storms called where they are of such magnitude that they are expected to happen only once a century?
What is "hundred-year storms"?
What was identified as the two central components to understanding the social worlds humans create?
What is social interaction and social structure?
What is DuBois' concept that he developed that refers to the idea of Black individuals living multiple lives, one as a Black person and one as an American?
What is double conciousness?
If you wanted to study thought processes that lead people to have certain opinions or engage in certain behavior, what research method would you be most likely to use?
What is interviews?
What is the process by which we learn how we're expected to behave in certain situations?
What is socialization?
The _________________ movement was born out of the idea that there should be equal protection from environmental hazards for all people, regardless of race, class, gender, or geography.
What is environmental justice
Which social context will impact a child's life experience from birth more than the others?
a. parent's income and wealth
b. parent's age
c. parent's eating habits
d. parent's family size
What is parent's income and wealth (a)?
Sociologists that theorized about social order, like Durkheim, were concerned with answering which question?
What is what holds society together?
What is ethnography?
Organized groups engaging in collective efforts aimed to bring about some kind of change from below are called?
What are social movements?
A society that creates an excess of garbage is called a _____________?
What is a "throwaway society"?
How would someone who is using the sociological imagination view unemployment or homelessness?
They would look at the larger social forces contributing to these problems.
Would look past sterotypes/not accept simplistic or individual explanations.
________ capital refers to the resources based on who you know and can call upon for help when you need it, whereas _____ captial refers to your reputation.
What is social and what is symbolic?
What is it called when there appears to be a relationship between two factors but in actuality, this relationship is caused by a third factor?
What is spuriousness/spurious relationship?
HINT: Ice cream and murder rates example
When ideas are passed down from one generation to another, they begin to solidify, become accepted, and then become...
What is institutionalized?
iPhones being increasingly designed to provide a limited amount of use before they need to be replaced is an example of the idea of _________.
What is planned obsolescence?