sociology
in the 1980s many politicians argued that listening to heavy metal music led teenages to commit suicide. while you might find this belief silly, it is a
hypothesis
sociologists who conduct interviews can only ather data from a limited number of people because?
interviews are too time consuming
which of the following is a disadvantage of using ethnography as a method of social research
it is very difficult for another researcher to repeat or replicate any particular ethnography
culture is a very broad concept, usually divided into material culture and symbolic culture. list and describe the major components of symbolic culture
signs, language, gesture
a status is a position in a social hierarchy that comes with a set of expectations
true
an embodied status is a physical disability
true
the erm total institution applies to prisions
true
many if us have fond memories of ___, perhaps because there was more time for activities like making art from macaroni and reading stories
Kindergarten
according to ___ ___, part of the mind is composed of biological drives and consequently is the source of psychic energy (id)
Sigmund Freud
when one individual has multiple has multiple roles that are in conflict, it is called role conflict
True
_ _ ___ argued that if people define a situation as real, it is real in it consequences
W. I. Thomas
which of the following affect the methods used by sociological researchers?
all of the above
parents often buy their children gender-specific toys. ___ get action figures that encourage active and aggressive play. ___ gets dolls and toy ovens that encourage domesticity
boys, girls
jai is conducting a sociological research study on differences in interactions between similar and dissimilar coworkers
choose a research method
you want to conduct some sociological research on whether people on social networking sites are less likely to meet in personas a result of their online community participation. what is the next step in the sociological research method?
conduct a literature review
youre conducting research on violence in the media. if youre trying to decide whether "violence" includes words as well as actions, in what part of the research process are you engaged?
defining the variables
sigmund freud once said that the id was a wild horse and the ___ was like a rider astride the horse, struggling to keep it under control
ego
which of the following is an advantage of using ethnography to study social life?
ethnography allows the researcher to gather abundant data on small population
which mothodology most closely resembles the scientific method?
experimental research
a female police officer who struggles with commanding respect from male collegues while also presenting herself in traditionally feminine ways may be experienceing conflict
false
a status that seems to override all other statuses an individual may possess is called a minor status
false
an achieved status is not earned
false
young army recruits arriving at boot camp are about to enter an open institution
false
___ forms the foundation for all other socializing agents
family
children raised without human interaction or with a minimum of human contact are referred to as ___ children
feral
a closed ended question is one that
limits possible responses
the ___ ___ self expalins how we develpo a self-concept based on our perceptions of others judgment of us
looking-glass
the___ vs nuture debate helps us understand the complex interaction between hereditary traits and social learning
nature
a paradigm shift is a major break in the assumptions that are used to under stand the world. for sociologists, what causes a paradigm shift?
new data forces a new way of looking at the world
charles darwin suggested that, rather than being superior to the rest of the animal kingdom, human beings are simply one aprt of a larger system governed by natural laws. to the extent that this radically changed how people thought about almost everything, we could call it a
paradigm shift
karl marx was influenced by the philosopher gerof hegel but argued that in some fundamental ways hegels theories mistaken about how the world worked. marx said he needed to stand hegel in his head because marx believed that is is not the consciousness of men that determines their existance, but their social existence that determines their consciousness for many who came afterward, marxs argument represented a
paradigm shift
what do you call broad theoretical models of the social or natural world?
paradigms
sigmund freud
parental guidence through punisment and rewards
which of the following research techniques focuses on gainign an insiders perspective of the evryday lives of subjects under investigation, often dispelling stereotypes about the group being investigated?
participant observation
research on teen smoking and other deviant behaviors has found that the most important factor in statistically predicting if a teen will take up a particular deviant behaviors is the ___ or ___ of peers who also engage in that behavior
presence, absence
if you observe a group in order to determine ins norms, values, rules and meanings, then what kind if research are you doing?
qualitative
if the federal government conducts research on the value of checking batteries in home smoke detectors, what method will produce data that is most easy to transmit to many people?
quantitative
when he was writing the spirit and the flesh: sexual diversity in american indian culture, the ethnographer walter williams was always very open about his sexual orientation because he believed that being open with the people he was studying was the only way to establish a trusting and sharing interaction with them. what was williams concerned about?
rapport
a sociologist want a major national organization to fund her study of medical marijuana clubs in san francisco nut it turned down beacause the grant maker dont see how her study would represent knowledge about anything more than the clubs that would be studied. what is the organization worried about?
representativeness
after formulating a general research question, what will a good researcher always do?
review the literature
a graduate student is almost done with his dissertation when he is informed that 20 years ago someone did a smiliar project and already demonstrated what he had hoped to be the first to discover. what basic step of the scientific method could have saved him for this problem?
reviewing the literature
a famous social scientist tells you that the most important, though never totally successful, task in her research was to move from to total bewilderment to finding her feet with the people she was studying. what can you say about this researcher?
shes a qualitative researcher
mead
social interaction through duel nature of self loath point
cooley
social through self matinence and formation
ethnographers using a participant observation must always be aware of relativity, which occurs because
the presense of thenographers may alter the behavior of the people that are observing
if a piece of sociological researching is representative, it means that
the smaller group of people studied can tell us something about a larger group
if a researcher has obtained information consent from all his participants, it means that
they all understand the nature of the study and what will be asked of them