A research method where the researcher intentionally manipulates a variable to discover its effect on another variable, controlling for all other variables.
What is an experiment?
100
The selection, organization, and interpretation of sensations.
What is perceiving?
100
These are the steps you should take when using this method.
Step 1: What Is the Problem?
Step 2: What Are the Alternatives?
Step 3: What Are the Advantages and/or Disadvantages of Each Alternative?
Step 4: What Is the Solution?
Step 5: How Well Is the Solution Working?
What is the problem solving method?
100
A North American tribe that lives in between Canada and Mexico.
Who are the Nacirema?
200
A theoretical perspective that looks at society as a functional system in which each part plays a role.
What is the functionalist perspective?
200
a research method in which subjects respond to a series of statements or questions on a questionnaire or in an interview.
What is a survey?
200
an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
What is a belief?
200
These types of people do this when confronted with a complex problem.
Think actively.
Carefully explore situations with questions.
View situations from different perspectives.
Support different perspectives with reasons and evidence.
Discuss ideas in an organized way.
Analyze issues.
Who are critical thinkers?
200
There are supposedly this many benefits to marriage.
What is 1049?
300
A theoretical perspective that suggest social institutions maintain and further the interest of the powerful.
What is Conflict Theory?
300
A research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities.
What is an ethnography?
300
when you go beyond factual information to state what is not currently known.
What is an inference?
300
Taking knowledge learned in a previous situation and applying that knowledge to other situations is a reflection of _____________________.
What is application?
300
Tendency to assume that one’s own culture and way of life represents the norm or is superior to others
What is ethnocentrism?
400
A theoretical perspective that argues that we make sense of our world through interacting with one another.
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
400
a research method where researchers rely on data already collected by others.
What is Using available data?
400
express your evaluation of something based on certain criteria.
What is an evaluation or judgement?
400
when someone questions why you see an issue the way you do, instead of arguing your position, you should
What is the attempt to identify the reasons that support your position as well as the other person’s.
400
ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete.
What is liminality?
500
The film we watched in class.
What is the Matrix?
500
A relationship in which two (or more) variables change together
What is a correlation?
500
A term the author uses to describe how our background and life experiences influence how we perceive our world?
What are prescription lenses?
500
A person who has developed a knowledgeable understanding of our complex world, a thoughtful perspective on important ideas and timely issues, and sophisticated thinking and language abilities
What is a critical thinker?
500
A parenting style that emphasizes parental involvement and structuring the activities of children.