Unit 1

Question 1

worldview

Answer 1

our taken for granted world
the big picture that determines our daily decisions and actions
frame of reference by which we interpret and define reality

Question 2

why is it difficult to determine worldview

Answer 2

its something we think with or through, need a crisis to reconsider

Question 3

questions to ask of a worldview

Answer 3

ultimate authority
what is reality
what is humanity
determining right and wrong
reason and purpose for all things

Question 4

paradigm

Answer 4

pattern, pure

Question 5

naturalism

Answer 5

materialism

cosmos is all there is

Question 6

pantheism

Answer 6

no thing except Mind

Question 7

theism

Answer 7

if you do not believe in God purpose of life is unanswerable

Question 8

sociology

Answer 8

the study of human life

Question 9

ways of sociology

Answer 9

empirical investigation

critical analysis

Question 10

tools of sociology

Answer 10

scientific method

quantitative and qualitative experiments

Question 11

quantitative

Answer 11

experimental designs
survey
secondary data analysis
statistical analysis

Question 12

qualitative

Answer 12

participant observation
interviews
focus groups
content analysis
historical comparison

Question 13

elements in sociological imagination

Answer 13

interested in doings of humans
excitement in finding familiar transformed
ability to step outside oneself

Question 14

social control

Answer 14

social mechanism that regulates individual and group behavior

Question 15

sources of social control

Answer 15

law

customs, manners

Question 16

methods of social control

Answer 16

violence, economic pressures, ridicule and gossip, ostracism, not rational discussion

Question 17

definition of the situation

Answer 17

situation is what it is defined to be by the participants

Question 18

what does the definition of the situation do

Answer 18

guides behaviors

creates expectations

Question 19

definitions are mediated by

Answer 19

institutions

Question 20

what is an institution

Answer 20

distinctive complex of social actions

Question 21

four elements of institution

Answer 21

artifacts, arenas, roles, rules

Question 22

examples of institutions

Answer 22

family, education, economy, politics and law, religion,

Question 23

ways in which society is in us

Answer 23

role theory
sociology of knowledge
reference group theory

Question 24

what is role theory

Answer 24

society provides us with our identity
roles provide patterns for action in a situation and preset modes of thinking and feeling
we become our roles

Question 25

identity is socially

Answer 25

bestowed - learning what it is to be human from others, we are what we are called sustained - we choose friends who reinforce us transformed - rites of passage where people help us see who we are newly

Question 26

role theory provides

Answer 26

a social anthropology, a view of the human based on his existence in society

Question 27

sociology of knowledge

Answer 27

study of social location of ideas - the says who phenomenon

Question 28

ideas are created in specific

Answer 28

social contexts supported by particular institutions

Question 29

types of institutions

Answer 29

polii