Sociology Midterm

Question 1

What is the Beloit Mindset List?

Answer 1

Provides important insight into the lives of incoming university students

Question 2

What is Generation X?

Answer 2

Pressured by their parents, difficult to climb ranks in the workforce, first generation to be influenced by technology

Question 3

What is Generation Y?

Answer 3

Close knit families, look to adults for guidance, can’t achieve anything independently, first generation to grow up completely with technology

Question 4

What is Generation Z?

Answer 4

Grew up fully immersed in technology, short attention spans, different outlook on the world

Question 5

What is a grand narrative?

Answer 5

Applying relevance and accuracy to what young people are learning in a way that they will be interested and understand

Question 6

What is the natural attitude?

Answer 6

People naturally see themselves and situations from their personal perspective

Question 7

What is the sociological imagination?

Answer 7

Look at the relationship between history and biography in society

Question 8

What is the personal milieu?

Answer 8

Personal problems that reach and individual or group around them that can be fixed on their own

Question 9

What are the public issues of the social structure?

Answer 9

These are the problems that rise with intersecting milieus of people

Question 10

What is the Information Age?

Answer 10

Castells says that it is the rapid development and widespread use of micro technology

Question 11

What does McLuhan say about medium?

Answer 11

The message of the medium that introduces a change in pace to human affairs

Question 12

What is hot media?

Answer 12

It is passive consumption that does not require the receiver to fill in many details

Question 13

What is cold media?

Answer 13

Requires the receiver to be actively participate, presenting information more abstractly

Question 14

What does app centred mean?

Answer 14

Individuals turn to apps to answer questions first

Question 15

What is e-culture?

Answer 15

Information is being consumed at a rapid rate and there is unlimited accessibility

Question 16

What are old school expectations?

Answer 16

Engage more with print culture, less with technology, more present

Question 17

What are new school students?

Answer 17

Recognize the value in the digital world and it’s importance

Question 18

How do they intersect?

Answer 18

There is value in new students appreciating old school methods (critically reading)

Question 19

What is Newman’s idea for university?

Answer 19

University should strive to culturally, completely educate an individual to prepare them for the world

Question 20

What was Humbolt’s idea for university?

Answer 20

University is for specialized knowledge and critical inquiry and scientific study

Question 21

What is the multiversity?

Answer 21

A series of disconnected communities not united to pursue a similar educational goal but rather individual specialized ones

Question 22

What is the problem with liberal education?

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Focused more on practicality, technical, career based learning rather than person growth and discovery

Question 23

What is neoliberalism?

Answer 23

social wellbeing is best attained through encouragement of individual personal property, free trade, etc

Question 24

What is craftwork?

Answer 24

Specializing in a certain area, dedicating years of expertise to a certain area

Question 25

What is intellectual craftsmanship?

Answer 25

It is the integration of life and work so that an individual can draw on experience to realize potential

Question 26

What is the first level of engagement?

Answer 26

A state of awareness that the mind transitions between emotion and observation.

Question 27

What is the second level of engagement?

Answer 27

Level of action and social participation

Question 28

What is the third level of engagement?

Answer 28

Level of imagination, produces unrestricted ideas and innovation

Question 29

What is the meaningful construction of the social world?

Answer 29

Individuals understand the world through socially constructed meaning, understand it interperatively

Question 30

What is the duree?

Answer 30

A stream of lived experience

Question 31

what is a disciplinary matrix?

Answer 31

A system of assumption that scientists employ to scientific activity

Question 32

What is a discourse?

Answer 32

Process of reasoning rather than the results of an immediate experience

Question 33

What was the Enlightenment influence on sociology?

Answer 33

Time of thought, innovation and testing the previous social structure

Question 34

What is Karl Marx's idea of social change?

Answer 34

It lies in the real experiences of the people, the working class hold the power

Question 35

What is technological determinism?

Answer 35

The idea that machinery is key to social change

Question 36

What is economic determinism?

Answer 36

It is not machinery or technology but the economy that drives history and social change

Question 37

What is the class struggle?

Answer 37

The proletariat will eventually become conscious of inequality and spark revolution

Question 38

What is Decartes first rule of discourse?

Answer 38

true knowledge to rigorous contemplation of the world

Question 39

What is the second?

Answer 39

Unless knowledge was rigorously researched it cannot be stated as true

Question 40

What is the third?

Answer 40

Scientific method should apply to all areas of human knowledge

Question 41

What is Decartes final rule of discourse?

Answer 41

All claims must be open to scrutiny and criticism

Question 42

What is the social spirit? (Montesquieu)

Answer 42

The spirit of society does not lie in the individual but in the collective, governing body as a whole

Question 43

What is positivism?

Answer 43

System of knowledge based purely on the methodology of the natural sciences

Question 44

What is important about order and progress?

Answer 44

Principle difficulty and strength of every political system

Question 45

What did Weber believe about sociology?

Answer 45

Involves the development of a comprehensive understanding of social action