FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM 1

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY 101 EXAM 1

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Question 1: What is a folkway?

Answer:

A norm governing everyday behavior whose violation raises comparatively little concern. Example: Going up a down escalator is frowned on but will invoke no real punishment

Question 2: What is social control?

Answer:

The techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior in any society. Example: Prison is an attempt to control deviant behavior

Question 3: What is a status?

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A position in society that someone occupies with roles and behaviors associated with it. Example: A doctor

Question 4: What are the versions of a conflict approach to a problem?

Answer:

Marxist and Pluralist

Question 5: What is dysfunction?

Answer:

An element or process of a society that may disrupt the social system or reduce its stability. Example: If an institution fails to perform its manifest function

Question 6: What is a role?

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A set of behaviors that one plays based on their status in society. Example: A waiter brings the food and takes orders

Question 7: What are manifest functions?

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The function the institution was created to perform. Example: The colleges were created to educate the students

Question 8: What is a functionalist approach to a problem?

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Institutions fulfill functions in society and when they fail to perform their function a breakdown occurs.They look at departures from the status quo and is a macro approach.

Question 9: What are agents of socialization?

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The vehicles we use to socialize us. Example: The family, media, school

Question 10: What is a Pluralist approach to a problem?

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Focuses on value conflicts between different groups in society. Solved by a compromise between the groups where both feel their values can be preserved.

Question 11: What is socialization?

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The lifelong process in which people can learn the attitudes, values, and behaviors appropriate for members of a particular culture. Example: Children going to school to understand how to behave

Question 12: What is a scientific theory?

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A set of statements that seek to explain problems, actions, or behaviors using scientific methods.

Example: The differential association theory (you are who you hang out with)

Question 13: What is participant observation?

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When you become a part of a phenomenon to better understand it and observe it from the inside.

Example: To better understand a gang you become a member of it

Question 14: Why is nonverbal communication so important to the interactionist perspective in sociological analysis?

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Because symbols have to have the same meaning for both parties using them.

Question 15: What are latent functions?

Answer:

Unintentional functions of an institution of society that can make it dysfunctional if they overtake the

manifest function. Example: Many college students meet their spouses at school

Question 16: What is social darwinism?

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The theory that the unfit people and races should be left alone and will eventually die out leaving only the strongest people. Example: Without homeless shelters many of the homeless would die leaving only the successful

Question 17: What is the falsification of hypotheses?

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Proving a hypothesis false to find out what isn't true and chip away until only the truth is left. Example: Proving that race does not affect intelligence

Question 18: What is a social category?

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A collection of people who share characteristics but do not interact. Example: People waiting at a bus stop

Question 19: What is a symbol?

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A gesture, object, or word that forms the basis of human communication. Example: A wave is a gesture that means hello or goodbye

Question 20: What is impression management?

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The altering of the presentation of self in order to create distinctive appearances and satisfy particular audiences. Example: If we are being loud in a museum we will see how others react and change our behavior accordingly

Question 21: What is a variable?

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A measurable trait or characteristic that is subject to change under different conditions. Example: The education level of poor individuals

Question 22: What is the concept of the looking glass self?

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A concept used by Charles Cooley that emphasizes the self as the product of our social interactions.

Example: If others perceive us as successful thats how we will see ourselves

Question 23: What is a social group?

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Any number of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who interact with one another on a

regular basis. Example: A family or a church congregation

Question 24: What is a hypothesis?

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A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables. Example: Karl Marx's hypothesis that capitalism will turn to communism

Question 25: What are achieved and ascribed statuses?

Answer:

Achieved statuses are earned or chosen while ascribed statuses we are born with or are out of our

control. Example: College graduate vs. White male