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| The cause in a cause/effect relationship is the _________ variable. |
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| True/False: The advantage to participant observation is that it is real life. |
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| Which sociologist said sociology must be value free? |
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| According to the Functionalist theory, how does change occur? |
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| Through evolution & slowly |
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| What is a loaded survey question designed to do? |
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| To influence the subject to answer in a certain way. |
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| What is the "guinea pig" effect? |
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| When the subjects act differently while being studied. |
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| True/False: A question that is answered with a yes or no is a closed question. |
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| True/False: A conflict theorist would claim that poverty in a society is a function because it ensures that jobs nobody wants will be taken. |
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| What causes altruistic suicide? |
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| When a person has too many rules/restrictions |
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| When does egoistic suicide occur? |
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| When a person doesn't have enough rules to fit in society. |
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| True/False: Anomic suicide occurs when the society as a whole no longer has rules. |
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| What is sociological imagination? |
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| When we can see ourselves as part of the big picture. |
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| According to Durkheim, what do people need to do to be happy? |
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| People need to participate in society. |
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| Structures that negatively affects society. |
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| True/False: The Functionalist perspective is criticized for being too status quo. |
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| Studying sociology as accurately as physics. |
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| Which theory focuses on competition between haves and have nots? |
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| Which theory focuses on meanings behind actions? |
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| Symbolic interaction theory |
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| Which theory focuses on stability in society? |
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| Which theory states society is set up with structured inequality? |
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| Which theory suggests changes is rapid, through violent or non violent revolution? |
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| Which theory says society keeps the functions and gradually eliminates the dysfunctions? |
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| Which theory says society keeps the functions and gradually eliminates the dysfunctions? |
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| Which theory is supported by Karl Marx? |
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| Which theory is supported by Emile Durkheim? |
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| Which theory is criticized for being too supportive of status quo? |
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| Which theory states society is made up of various parts working together? |
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| What are drawbacks to an experiment? |
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| What is an independent variable? |
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| item used to get action/effect |
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| What is a dependent variable? |
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| action/effect you are looking for |
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| What is an experimental group? |
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| The systematic study of human interaction |
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| True/False: Value Free sociology concerns itself with establishing what is, not what ought to be. |
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| In a cause and effect relationship the independent variable is the _______. |
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| Joining a Pro-Life March is an example of what type of research process? |
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| Participant observations. |
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| What are some elements of non-material culture? |
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| Feeling ones own culture is superior |
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| True/False: sociologists believe culture is a social product. |
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| What are cultural universals? |
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| Traits found in all cultures |
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| What is the chief mechanism for transmitting culture? |
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| Shared ideas about desirable goals |
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| True/False: A person who violates a folkway will probably be called weird. |
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| Norms associated with strong feelings of right and wrong. |
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| Who do subcultures separate themselves from the overall culture? |
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| Develop norms, values, and lives. |
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| What is a counterculture? |
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| Have values, interests, beliefs, and lifestyles that go against society. |
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| Rules that are enforced and sanctioned by the authority of gov. |
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| Rewards for conformity or punishment for nonconformity. |
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| True/False: Cultural relativity requires that each cultural trait be evaluated in the context of its own culture. |
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| What helps to bind the deaf culture together? |
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| True/False: Sociologists use the term cultural diversity to describe a situation in which several fairly dissimilar people with distinct ways of life exist together in the same society. |
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| Define social structures. |
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| recurring patterns of relationships. |
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| True/False: A professional athlete is an example of achieved status. |
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| True/False: Achieved status in mandatory. |
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| A status that is mainly inherited |
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| True/False: A sociologist who wants to know what percentage of population is African American is interested in status distribution. |
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| True/False: A sociologist interested in status identification wants to know what statuses are available in that society. |
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| True/False: A sociologist who is interested in the consequences of status wants to know how rewards differ among statuses. |
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| True/False: A sociologist who wants to know if it is possible for a female to be an engineer is focusing on status combination. |
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| The rights and obligations attached to a status combination. |
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| When there are incompatible role demands on a single status. |
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| When incompatible role demands are linked to multiple statues. |
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| What is the purpose of institutions? |
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| True/False: Conflict theorists argue that institutions develop to maintain systems of inequality. |
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| Institutions are _____ (if one changes the other will be affected), if they change too fast they can experience _____ and ______, if they change too slow they can _______. |
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| Independent, trauma, collapse, adjust |
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| True/False: The process where we are taught roles for the future is called anticipatory socialization. |
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| Examples of Total Institutions: |
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| boot camp, prison, monastery. |
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| True/False: The tabula rasa theory states that environment is the main factor in shaping our personality. |
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| True/False: The "I" is the spontaneous, individual self. |
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| True/False: The "Me" is the self that is a social being. |
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| True/False: The self that we are aware of is out self-concept. |
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| True/False: The looking glass self is the process of learning to view ourselves as we think others view us. |
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| When does resocialization occur? |
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| When we disregard/change previous behaviors |
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| Learn appropriate ways of treating others is an example of what? |
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| How do people develop social skills? |
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| Characteristics of total institutions: |
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| little free time, goal oriented activities, uniforms |
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| What is the most important agent of socialization? |
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| What is the main activity of a hunter/father society? |
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| Daily collection of plants/animal |
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| What is the main industry of a postindustrial society? |
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| producing information and services |
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| Which person is probably employed by a total of a institution: teacher, reporter, prison guard, postal worker. |
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| True/False: A series of experiments conducted with monkeys emphasized the importance of socialization and affection. |
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| True/False: the situation with the Ojibwa Indians of Canada is an example of what happens when institutions change too fast. |
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| In Denmark, parents leave their infants in strollers outside coffee shiops while they go in and relax with a cup of coffee. True/False: This an example of defiance is relative. |
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| True/False: One assumption in Sociology is that people tend to be influenced by groups. |
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| If Stacy is worn out from her chorus class, chorus rehearsals, traveling to shows and singing all day; what is she experiencing? |
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| If Micheal is losing his mind because he has soccer practice, a needy girlfriend, a job after school and 2 tests tomorrow; what is he experiencing? |
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| Donald checked himself into a rehab center located right in his neighborhood where he had contact with all his drug buddies and failed to get clean and sober. What was the problem with this total institution? |
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| Going behind your best friend's back to date her husband would be a violation of ______. |
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| The fact that Culpeper high school allows one single valedictorian is an example of _______. |
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| The fact that everyone notices Michael's Arab ethnicity is an example of |
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| True/False: Racist skin heads are an example of a counter culture. |
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| True/False: Deaf culture advocates the believe that the inner implant to help deaf children hear would be an act of genocide. |
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| Timothy and Suzy playing with their Fisher Price bubble lawn mower and Easy Bake kitchen set is an example of ________ socialization. |
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| The fact that many twins separated at birth and raised by 2 different families end of liking.disliking the same foods supports the idea of a ______ model instead of a ________ model. |
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| Examples of cultural universals: |
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| Language, religion, death rights. |
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| True/False: Formal social control is when one conforms because they fear punishment. |
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| Define secondary deviance. |
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| Occurs when one does an impulsive deviant act. |
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| True/False: Receiving treatment for compulsive stealing instead of prison is an example of sin to sickness. |
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