FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY EXAM 1

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY EXAM #1

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Question 1: what is anomie?

Answer:

"normlessness"; term used to describe the alienation and loss of purpose that result from weaker social bonds and an increased pace of change

Question 2: What is applied research?

Answer:

gathering knowledge that can be used to create social change

Question 3: Who was the founder of structual functionalism?

Answer:

Emile Durkheim

Question 4: Who are postmodernist thinkers?

Answer:

Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean Baudrillad

Question 5: What is the fifth step of the scientific method?

Answer:

collect the data

Question 6: What is ethnography?

Answer:

a naturalistic method based on studying people in their own environment

Question 7: What are means of production?

Answer:

anything that can create wealth; money, property, factories, and other types of businesses, and the infrastructure necessary to run them

Question 8: What is the sixth step of the scientific method?

Answer:

analyze the data, evaluating the accuracy or inaccuracy of the hypothesis in predicting the outcome

Question 9: Who areProletariat

Answer:

workers, no means of production, sell labor power in order to live

Question 10: Who were Symbolic Interactionism thinkers?

Answer:

George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer, W.E.B. DuBois

Question 11: What are double-barreled questions?

Answer:

questions that attempt to get at multiple issues at once

Question 12: what is participant observation?

Answer:

researcher both observes and becomes a member in a social setting

Question 13: what does conflict theory emphasize?

Answer:

a materialist view of society, critical view of the status quo and dynamic model of historical change

Question 14: what is culture shock?

Answer:

a sense of disorientation that occurs when entering a radically new social or cultural environment

Question 15: what is sociology?

Answer:

the systematic or scientific study of human behavior

Question 16: what is a paradigm?

Answer:

a set of assumptions, theories, and perspecives that make up a way of understanding social reality

Question 17: what is solidarity?

Answer:

the degree of integration or unity within a particular society; the extent to which individuals feel connected to other members of their group

Question 18: What is reflexivity?

Answer:

how the identity and activities of the researcher impact what is going on in the field setting

Question 19: What is the dependent variable?

Answer:

the factor that is changed by the independent variable

Question 20: what are social sciences?

Answer:

the dsicplines that use the scientific method to examine the social world

Question 21: what is collective conscience?

Answer:

the shared morals and beliefs that are common to a group and that foster social solidarity

Question 22: what are latent functions?

Answer:

unintended functions of social structure

Question 23: Who are Bourgeoisie

Answer:

owners; capitalists that own the means of production and employ wage laborers

Question 24: What is the fourth step of the scientific method?

Answer:

choose a research design or method to conduct study

Question 25: what is a structure

Answer:

a social institution that is relatively stable over time and that meets the needs of society by performing functions necessary to maintain social order and stability

Question 26: what is thick description?

Answer:

presentation of detailed data on interactions and meaning within a cultural context

Question 27: what is organic solidarity?

Answer:

the type of social bonds present in modern societies, based on difference, interdependence, and individual rights

Question 28: what is sociological perspective?

Answer:

a way of looking at the world through a sociological lens