Lecture Ideas

Question 0

Durkheim research

Answer 0

On who’s most likely to kill themselves.

Question 1

Sociologists look at the

Answer 1

Why in the familiar

Question 2

Social marginality

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Being excluded from social activity as an outsider.

Question 3

People only care when society

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Fails them

Question 4

A good group name says ____ __ ___ we are and don’t you ____ you could __ ____ of __

Answer 4

This is who we are
Wish
Be one
Us

Question 5

Social stratification

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Hierarchy in society

Question 6

Theoretical paradigm or theoretical perspective

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Fundamental assumptions about society that guide thinking and research

Question 7

Structural functional paradigm

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Assumes that society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote stability.

Question 8

Social conflict paradigm

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Assumes that society is a complex system characterized by inequality and conflict that continuously generate social change.

Question 9

Social interaction paradigm

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Assumes that society is continuously recreated as human beings construct reality through interaction.

Question 10

Operationalizing a variable

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Specifying exactly what is to be measured.

Question 11

Standard deviation

Answer 11

Step 1: find the deviations by subtracting the mean from the scores(6-8) then square the result
Step 2: add up squared deviations
Step 3: divide by number of added deviations
Step 4: square root result

Question 12

Ethnography

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Describes participant observation of human behavior.

Question 13

Instincts

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Inherited biologically determined behavior

Question 14

Machiavellian

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Cunning deceitful

Question 15

Tabula rosa

Answer 15

Blank slate. The theory that people are born as blank slates

Question 16

Double bind

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When both complying with a request and refusing a request will cause a problem.

Question 17

Hegals dialectic process

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1. Thesis: the idea that begins the dialectic process
2. Antithesis: the contradiction contained in a thesis
3. Synthesis: the constant struggle between ideas and their opposites produces a Changed state
   Synthesis becomes new thesis

Question 18

Marxs 4 stages of dad kapital

Answer 18

1. Feudal mercantilism: in sellable land
2. Capitalism: private factory ownership
3. Socialism: state factory ownership
4. Communism: ownership unnecessary