sociology exam 1

1. What is the study of sociology?

• Scientific study of how people communicate with others by using symbols

• Scientific study of human society focusing on social behavio, institutions, and structures. How groups interact, social relationships, cultural norms.

• When people use different language to communicate with each other with a common understanding of what the other person is saying.

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What do sociologists study and what approach do they use to understand those topics?

• Human interaction, communication, and symbols. They use symbols to understand a person’s meaning.

• Symbols, Sign language, Gesutures. They can be problematic if two people do not have th same meaning for a certain gesture.

• Human society, social behavior, interactions. They use surveys, experiments, and ethnography to understand.

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What is the sociological imagination?

• Ability to understand the relationship between individual experiences and larger social forces. Coined by writing mills.

• Ability to understand the relationship between groups of people around the world.

• Ability to understand people based on their body language and the actions that they do.

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What is the history of sociology as it is related to the Industrial Revolution?

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• Social statues emerge when Kanye west and Taylor swift were on a cruise together and they ate a raw chicken.

• Social changes fueled by the dinosaur gas from beneath the earth

• Sociology emerged as a response to the social changes brought by the Industrial Revolution including urbanization, inequality, and the breakdown of traditional social structures.

Who are the early founders of socially and what were their contributions?

• Emile Durkheim (functionalism ) , Marc Weber (positivity) , Conrad Comet ( interpretive sociology)

• August Comte (positivism) , Emile Durkheim (functionalism) , Max Weber (interpretive sociology)

• Max Ruby (functionalism), Gabe ward ( vintage culture) , AnnaLe Pur ( beast slayer)

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What are the 3 major sociological perspectives? Which micro/macro?

• Functionalism (MACRO), Conflict Theory (MACRO), Symbolic Interactionism (MICRO)

• Functionalism (Micro)

• Social interaction (micro) interpretive dancing (macro) Samoan ( macro)

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What are manifest and latent functions?

• Manifest Functions are unintended and observable outcomes.

• Manifest are intended and observable outcomes

• Latent functions are intended and hidden outburst of social outcomes

• Latent Functins are unlimited and hidden outcomes of social actions

How do sociologists conduct research? What are the different types of sociological research and what are the steps (in order) that are involved

• Quantitive and qualitative research methods

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• Defining problem, reviewing lit, form hypothesis, research, gather date, analyze data, report findings.

What is the relationship of hypotheses and variables?

• A hypothesis is a testable statement about the relationship between variables which can be independent or dependent

• A hypothesis is a testable statement about the relationship between a specific test

• A reserchable topic that one has gathered data for

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What are the different types of variables?

• Independent (causes change) dependent (being changed) control variable (kept constant)

• Independent (being changed) Control (constantly changing) dependent (stand alone)

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