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| What are two examples of institutions |
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Sociologists look at how the environment influences
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Who are the three Founding Fathers of Sociology?
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Karl Marx
Emile Durheim
Max Weber |
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Which founding father created
Conflict Theory |
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Which founding father created
Functionalism? |
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Which founding father created
Symbolic Interactionism?
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What is conflict theory?
Result of Conflict Theory? |
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Conflict theory:
- Groups competing for wealth, power and resources (rich vs poor)
-Class Struggle
Result:
-Equality
- everyone has the same access to the same resources |
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What is functionalism?
Consensus?
Result? |
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What is functionalism?
Society is bound by functionalism (has a purpose)
Consensus?
-what is functional and what is not
-society gets rid of things that are not functional
Result?
what is important is to provide people with the same opportunites with means of production |
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| What do conflict theorist argue? |
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i.e. -90% of uni profs are in natural sciences are male
50% of the population is female (as a whole)
-Gender distribution should be equal
EQUALITY !
50% male/ 50% female |
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What do functionalists argue?
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i.e 90% of prison population is male
OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD BE THE SAME
outcome shouldnd be the same, but given the same opportunities |
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How do Conflict Thorists veiw the world?
(at the extreme) |
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(Conspiracy Theorists )
RICH is there to EXPLOIT the POOR |
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| How does Functionalists Veiw the world? |
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| What does Symbolic Interactionism focuss on ? |
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The meanings behind peoples Behavior
Why people do the things they do/ what is it
Not so much reality but how people procieve and react |
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What does Individual level mean in
Symbolic Interactionism? |
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| Closest thing to Psycology |
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| What was Symbolic Interactionism founded by? |
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| Why do sociologist use research methods ? |
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to determine how the environment influences people
(evaluate theories) |
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what are the types of theories?
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Testable theories
Non-Testable theories
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| Karl Marx is the _____# most influenctial person |
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Karl Marx is the _____# most influenctial person
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Who is Captialism associated with?
What change does Capitalism theory bring? |
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Karl Marx
Theory about social and economic change |
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Rich get richer/ poor get poorer
most powerful/ evil force on the planet
# of poor individuales gained in size working calss will become more educated and over throw the rich in revolution.
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| What is the issue of the Capitalism theory |
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The issue is that you cannot faulsify it, violent revolusion is the issue.
Karl Marx didnt indicate when it would happen |
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Give an example of a theory that is non testable?
Who is the theorist? |
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the idea of ID, EGO and SUPER EGO
it cannot be faulsified
Sigmond Freud |
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What is a theory?
give an example |
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A theory is a general assertion about something
EX. Students at guelph are smarter than students from another univeristy |
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Give an example of a hypothesis
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| EX. Guelph students have higher grades on a standardized test than do students from another univeristy |
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| test a theory with ________ and evaluate the credibility of _______. |
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test a theory with HYPOTHESIS and evaluate the credibility of THEORY.
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| what are Quantitative Research used in |
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1) Experiments (used more is science)
2) Survey Research (sociology + economics)
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| Experimental design has very ______ environment |
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What are the three stages of expiriment?
Give an example of theory and hypothesis of expiriment |
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1) Pre- test - test subject before hand
2) treatment- give them the treatment
3) post test- then asses if treatment had an effect
theory: drug reduces cancer cells
hypothesis: cancer cells exposed to the drug will deteriorate (get smaller) |
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list characteristics of Survey Research
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-Do not manipulate subjects
-ask them a number of questions
-can be done through telephone, mail, personal interview, internet
-Each question on the survey represents a variable |
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Anything that Varies
different than constant |
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| list two types of Variables |
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Quantitative Variables
Categorical Variables |
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What is Quantitative Variables
give an example |
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-Continuous (rank)
-Numerical
EX.- education (years of schooling
-Income (dollars) |
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What is Categorical Variables
Give an Example |
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-No rank order
-Non- numerical
EX.what province do you live in? what your race? whats your sex?
answer is non numerical answer/ not rankable
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| What does social science looks at? |
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we look at the environment and how it influences individuals
and influences our positions in the social structure in a n economic environment |
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| Who are the founding fathers of Sociology? |
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Karl Marx
Emile Durkheim
Max Weber
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| Who created conflict theory |
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| Who created functionalism? |
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| Who created Symbolic Interactionism ? |
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What is Conflict theory?
What does it work towards? |
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-Competing groups (for wealth power and resources)
rich VS poor
outcome and result is the same for everyone
eveyone has the same access to the same resources |
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What is functionalism?
consensus of funcionalism?
what is importnant? |
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Society is bound by functionalism
society has a purpose
Consensus- amound society what is functional and what is not- society gets rid of things that are not functional
it is important to provide people with the same opportunites with the means of production |
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What do Conflict theorists argue?
give example |
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That everything should be equal
ex.
-90% of Uni profs in the natural science are male
-50% of the population is female
in the end- gender distribution should be the same |
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Functionalists argue
Give example |
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Outcome shouldnt be the same, but given the same opportunites
Ex.
- but 90% of prison people are male
-their opportunies should be the same |
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Symbolic interactionism
founded from the______ ______. |
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Is the closest thing to psychology
Focus ont meanings behind peoples behavior
Why people do the things they do?
what is it
not much so reality but how people procieve and react
Founded from the INTERPRETIVE SCHOOL |
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