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