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| What s a topic that would be chosen for macrosociological analysis/ |
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| a study of the impact of terrorism on the travel plans of business people |
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| What is the cprrect sequence of steps in the researach process? |
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| select topic, review the literature, collect the data share the results |
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| Matthew is completing his master's thesis on the culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs. He lives with the gang-observing and descriing their lifestyle. That is an example of what research method? |
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| If an individual views society as a system of interrelated parts - what theory are they using? |
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| Conflict theorist would say that the change in the American divorce rate is based on what? |
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| the change in male/female power relationships. |
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| functionalists and conflict theorists focus on what level of analysis? |
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| Sociologists who analyze how behavior depends on the way people define themselves and others are? |
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| Making a sincere effort to understand the practice of having multiple wives in some societies would be called? |
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| If you live in a society that belives in the acceptance of rules, effeciency, and practical results that society is usually? |
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| The replacement of members, preserving order, and socialization of new members in a society is referred to as? |
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| Expectations that guide our behavior are called? |
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| Sociologists say we are motivated in our thinking and behavior by? |
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| Our society and social location |
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| What is the term Durkheim uses to describe the degree to which we are united by shared values and social bonds? |
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| Americans only glorify academic progress and material success. However, most students do not graduate with honors and most citizens are not wealthy. This represents the difference between? |
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| Ideal culture and real culture |
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| What is it called when one group is given more ppwer and prestige than another? |
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| Why would one person see $100 speeding ticket as no big deal and another as a financial burden? |
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| their location in the social structure |
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| What do we call a group who is singled out or unequally treated? |
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| the economic system based on investing to make profits that is becoming the globes dominant economic system is called? |
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| The globalization of capitalism |
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| The control of the least industralized nations by the industrializations through debts owed to them is known as? |
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| Who was the first person to use the scientific method in social life? |
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| What does Karl Marx say is the force that drives human history? |
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| What does the term verstehen mean? |
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| to grasp by sight (put yourself in someone eleses shoes) |
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| Who started Hll House and won the Nobel Prize in 1931? |
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| Language, beliefs, values, norms, etc. passed from one generation from another is known as? |
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| These are expectations or rules of behavior developed from values? |
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| What do we call the idea that language determines our consciousness? |
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| In nature vs. nurture - nurture represents what? |
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| who talks about "looking glass self?" |
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| Our image of who we are is called? |
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| When a young adult enters college, and learns new nrms, values, etc. it is called? |
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| The typical patterns of groups-like relations between men and women is called? |
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| The expectations that guide our behavior are called? |
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| A position that someone holds in society that cuts across all other statuses is called? |
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| People who regularly interact, share similar norms, values, and expectations are called a? |
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| In researach, a statement like unemployed men are more likely to commit spousal abuse than employed men would be a ? |
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| What do we call people who share a culture and a territory? |
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| people who happen to be in the same place at the same time are called? |
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| if people in the U.S.,Canade, Germany, and France all support the same football team they are called a? |
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| a group with long-term , intimate, face-to-face association is called? |
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| what group is the most unstable? |
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| boy scouts, civic organizations, and any organization a person joins because of mutal interest are called? |
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| bestowing honor and praise on someone are examples of? |
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| Two people can engage in the same behavior and one be called a criminal and the other not is called? |
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| A sense of normlessness is called? |
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| the division of people into layers according to their power, property, prestige is called? |
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| The ability to control othrs even over their objections is called? |
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| What does C. Wright Mills call people who make the big decisions in society? |
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| what is status inconsistancy? |
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| having a low prestige jog (janitor) that is high paying or a high prestige job (teacher) that is low paying |
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| biological characteristics |
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| inherited physical characteristics |
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| the relocation of natve americans to reservations is known as? |
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| descrimination aganist eople because of their age. |
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| what is the main criticism of capitalism? |
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| creates social inequalities |
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| armed resistance with the intention of overthrowing the government |
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| marrying someone with similar characteristics to each other. race, religion, social class |
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| The function of schools to promote a sense of national identity is called? |
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| What did Durkheim call the common elements of everyday life? |
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| the study of the size, composition, growth and distribution of human population. |
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| what do we call a large group of people who organize to resist or promote social change? |
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| What is the green house effect? |
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| The burning of fossil fuels allows sunlight to enter the atmosphere freely but inhibits the release of heat. |
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| researach methods that use measurem,ents, numbers, statistics are called? |
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| If an individual views society from the prospective of people competing for scarce reourcses - what theory are they using |
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| Going to another country where women are not allowed in public people push and shove instead of standing in line, and people disregarded sanitation could cause the individual to experience? |
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| the annhilation of the entire race is called? |
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| what is the idea that the fittest members deserve to survive while trying to help the poor will weaken the social order called? |
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| what do we call a group who has their own distincitive way of looking at life but still accept the norms and values of the dominant society? |
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| The speread of cultural characteristiccs from one culture to another is called? |
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| the expectations that define appropriate or inappropriate behavior for a status are called? |
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| believing that all jocks are stupid, all african americans can play basketball, etc. are examples of? |
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| if you belong to a group and feel hostility toward another group what is the group you feel hostility called? |
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| violations of norms and rules written into law are called? |
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| If you use the differential association theory of deviance, if someone is a juvenile delinquent that probably come from what kind of background? |
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| a crime committed within a prson's job is called/ |
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| what group of men do women fear the most as potential rapists? |
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| in the United States what political party is most closely associated with the working class? |
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| parents children under one roof |
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| What is the worlds largest religion? |
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