CH. 1
What's important about the sociological imagination (C. Wright Mills)?
sociology connects individual experiences to the larger social structure.
Qualitative
Definitive principles or rules of behavior that people are expected to observe are called:
norms
What is the main agent of socialization associated with primary socialization in most modern societies?
small-scale families
If your instructor were to ask if you cleaned up your room before leaving the house, she would be acting outside of her_____.
(social) role
According to Max Weber, economic factors are important to social change in society. However, he also argued that ________ is/are just as important for social change.
ideas and values.
Pritesh, a student in a sociology class, lost points on a graded research paper for not citing a famous study done five years earlier that was nearly identical to their own research. Which step in the research process should they have done more carefully?
Literature Review
The cultural disorientation you might experience if you traveled to (country X, for e.g. Japan) for the first time, reflects what's called:
culture shock
Gloria is an upper-middle-class parent. She sees to it that her daughter is enrolled in music lessons and participates in club sports. This is what Annette Lareau calls:
concerted cultivation
Two people walking on a city sidewalk quickly glance at each other and then look away as they pass. Erving Goffman called this type of interaction:
civil inattention
This theoretical approach is concerned with how people behave with one another, emphasizing the role of symbols and language as core elements of human interaction.
symbolic interactionism
If a researcher would like to get in-depth information based on interviews and firsthand observations, she should use the methodological approach known as a(n)
ethnography
The norm for some groups is to make direct eye contact when speaking to someone. This is an example of nonmaterial culture. (True or False)
Mary is a student, a daughter, and a paraplegic (amongst other identities). They are a fierce disability advocate and make sure that the majority of their interactions shine a light on disability rights. For Mary, being paraplegic would be a:
Master status (A single identity or status that overpowers all the other identities one holds.)
Joe wants to be part of the "cool kids" crowd at university. The crowd he perceives as cool has septum piercings and commonly use the phrase "slay". He pretends to have a septum piercing using clip-on jewelry and throws in the word slay around this crowd. When he gets home, he takes out the septum "piercing" and uses his usual speech. What is Joe engaged in?
impression management
The study of everyday life and face-to-face interaction is called ______ whereas analysis of large-scale systems and long-term processes is known as _______.
microsociology/macrosociology
Which research method would be best suited for collecting a large, representative sample of people’s attitudes toward married women with children working outside the home?
Survey
The components of a cultural system that are identified via actual physical objects are called:
material culture
What is the difference between social identity and self-identity?
Social identity focuses on similarities among people, whereas self-identity focuses on individual differences.
What form of social interaction uses the exchange of information and meaning through facial expressions, gestures, and movements of the body?
non-verbal communication
Sociologists recognize that when a group of people agree on an idea or practice, it becomes a taken-for-granted reality. This process is called:
social construction
Recently, ethnographic researchers have paid more attention to how their race, class, or gender, as well as any power differences between them and the people they study, might shape their data and their conclusions. What does this take into account?
positionality
List three of the components of culture, as used by sociologists.
Symbols, language, norms, values, and material objects.
Certain stages in the life course have expanded, whereas others have contracted. What are the stages that have expanded?
Adolescence and young adulthood are expanding as young people extend their education and postpone their movement into mature adulthood.
When your professor is delivering a lecture, she usually displays professional behavior. Erving Goffman refers to this behavior as characteristic of _____.Whereas the reading, research, and other preparation that your professor did to get ready for the lecture (that you did not witness) in your sociology class were done in what's referred to as _____.
the front region/the back region