Exam 1 Part 2 Flashcards
(13 cards)
Professional stranger
An observing participant where you are both the observer and participant
Symbolic interactionist perspective
Behavior that is infused with and shaped by meaning, understand and interpretation.
-sees interaction and meaning as central to society.
Assumes that meanings are created through interaction
New qualitative methodology
Observers look at what people are doing in their normal settings
Micro sociology
When people interact face to face , study of a small group
Social autopsy
Research that begins with an adverse event an accident or intention act of harm and tried to explain how and why it happened
Ex hurricane Katrina
Critical community studies
Provided unflinching look at the harshness of American community life
Vidich and Bensman “small town” study
Small town life in upstate New Yrok- small town in mass society. Analyzed town’s class structure also highlight the towns people’s miser cognition of their condition
Ain’t no making it
Jay Macleod observed 2 groups of young men living in housing projects one group was white (hallway hangers)and the other black(brothers).shows how social inequality goes through each generation
Verstehan
Researchers must understand the ideas, thoughts and meaning of the people they study.
Webber: inconvenient facts
Facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions. Many sociological researchers often fail o keep a clear line between their research studies and own personal political views.
Researchers an politics
By politics we refer to the many ways that qualitative researchers think about and address larger public issues. Scientists endeavors cannot and should not directly further political aims.
What was the hypothesis in the tatto parlor ?
How tattoo artist differentiate themselves and their fellow artist from the clientele they serve. The central hypothesis that experience pans the different ways artists accomplish this task is that artists engage in “speech acts”
The great surge
Occurred in the later 1950s and 1960s researchers now went to observe people in their natural setting rather than in an office and just asking them questions.
