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Sociological Research Methods
Movements
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Theory that suggests that audiences seek messages in the media that reinforce their existing attitudes and beliefs and are thus not influenced by challenging or contradictory information.
What is Reinforcement Theory?
100
An economic system based on the laws of free market competition, privatization of the means of production and production for a profit with an emphasis on supply and demand as a means to set price.
What is Capitalism?
100
Coined the phrase "Survival of the fittest"
What is Herbert Spencer?
100
A procedure for acquiring knowledge that emphasizes collecting data through observation and experiment.
What is The Scientific Approach?
100
During this movement, women fought for equal access to education and employment. They pushed to reform for equal opportunity laws and legislation against sexual harassment, martial rape, and gender discrimination awareness in the society.
What is The Second Wave?
200
Theory that the mass media can set the public agenda by selecting certain news stories and excluding others, thus influencing what audiences think about.
What is Agenda-setting theory?
200
Groups of people drawn together by shared interests, especially those relation to hobbies, sports, and media.
What is Lifestyle enclaves?
200
Used the term "dramaturgy" to describe the way people strategically present themselves to others.
What is Erving Gothman?
200
A relationship that seems to appear between two variables, but is actually caused by some external, or intervening variable.
What is Spurious Correlation?
200
During this movement, men supported feminism in the interest to fairness to women for the reason that their lives were constrained by gender and sexism.
What is Profeminist Men's Movement?
300
Symbols are all around us and therefore, we interact on the bases of symbols.
What is Symbolic Interactions?
300
Having many possible meanings or interpretations
What is Polysemy?
300
Believed that capitalism was creating social inequality between the bourgeoisie who owned the means of production and proletariat
What is Karl Marx?
300
Researchers should identify facts without allowing their own person beliefs or biases to interfere.
What is Value-free sociology?
300
During this historical period, there were rapid transformation in social life that resulted from technological and economic development including the assembly line, steam power, and urbanization. With this shift to a manufacturing company, vast number of people migrated into cities in search of work.
What is Industrial Revolution?
400
Social reality is diverse, pluralistic, and constantly changing.
What is Postmodern Theory?
400
The customs, practices, and values expressed in a particular place by the people who interact there
What is Idioculture?
400
Was interested in the connection between thought and action between the individual and the society.
What is George Herbert Mead?
400
Any data that has already been collected by earlier researchers and is available for future research.
What is Existing Source?
400
During this historical period, there were social and economic changes where the population increased in addition to increased in efficiency of food production.
What is Agricultural Revolution?
500
A paradigm that proposes that categories of sexual identity are social constructs and that no sexual categories is fundamentally either deviant or normal.
What is Queer Theory?
500
Any variety of groups who form communal living arrangements outside marriage.
What is Intentional Community?
500
Was concerned with the process of rationalization applying economic logic to human activity.
What is Max Weber?
500
Translate the social world into numbers that can be studied mathematically.
What is Quantitative Research?
500
During this movement, women were issued a Declaration of Sentiments stating generally that "all men and women are created equal" and demanded specifically women be given the right to vote.
What is Suffrage Movement?