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The Sociological Perspective
Research Methods
Culture
Deviance
Socialization
100
Belief that our daily interactions construct our reality and our world views
What is Symbolic Interaction?
100
A major source of raw data for sociologists
What is the GSS (General Social Survey) or the Census?
100
Football stadiums, BMW, McDonald's and pencils are examples of this
What is material culture?
100
Falling asleep during class lecture is an example of this type of deviance
What is informal deviance?
100
Family, Peers, School, Religion, Media are examples of these
What are agents of socialization?
200
Society is viewed as a system of interrelated and interdependent parts
What is Structural Functionalism?
200
The first two steps of the research process
What is first developing a research question and second a research design?
200
By killing your neighbor you have violated this type of norm
What are mores?
200
A social condition in which people are in a state of normlessness
What is anomie?
200
The first source of socialization for most
What is the Family?
300
Views society as fragmented groups vying for social and economic reasons
What is Conflict Theory?
300
A tentative assumption we test
What is a hypothesis?
300
Set of symbols that when meaningfully arranged provide communication
What is language?
300
Those who regulate and administer the response to deviance
What are agents of social control?
300
Charles Horton Cooley talks about the process by which we see ourselves as others see us
What is the Looking Glass Self?
400
C. Wright Mills defined this as "the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society."
What is the sociological imagination?
400
Survey research, participant observation, controlled experiments, content analysis, historical research or evaluation research
What are sociological research methods?
400
Abstract standards that define ideal principles and help delineate behavior
What are values?
400
Explains how the power to label an act or a person as deviant and the imposition of sanctions greatly determine how society understands deviance
What is Labeling Theory?
400
Expected behavior within a given status in society
What is a role?
500
Max Weber's term for cultural relativism
What is verstehen?
500
Type of method collection in which one becomes a member of the group one is studying
What is participant observation?
500
Women communities, the Militia movement, Rappers are examples of these
What is counterculture?
500
Influences the variations of definitions/perceptions of deviance
Wat are social context, time, and social movements?
500
George Herbert Mead believed that the self is comprised of these dimensions
What are "I" and "Me"