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| What is an independant variable? |
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The cause. Dependant vairable 'depends' on the independant. |
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| What is a dependant vairiable? |
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| The effect. It 'depends' upon the independant variable. |
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| Negative and positive effects |
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Positive: Both moving in the same direction. Either they both rise of they both fall. Positive correllation. Negative: Moving in different directions. They are opposite of each other. Negative correllation. |
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| Max Weber suggested that one of the barriers to understanding and interpreting social research is the natural reluctance of peopel to accept findings which contradict their conventional wisdom. He called these types of findings... |
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| Recently the American stock market has suffered dramatic losses and some of the most powerful and prestigious financial firms in the country are being bailed out by the government or bought by competitors. Some investors have lost millions of dollars. These investors are facing a ____ as a result of the stock market crash. |
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| Many economists are predicting that the recent financial crisis will result in fewer loans being made by banks. This means businesses will have a harder time finding the funds they need to incest in new factories and technology. This is expected to result in slower economic growth if not an outright depression. This is an example of how the financial crisis is a ______ |
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| When we make assumptions about a particular member of a group as a whole we are guilty of committing the _____ |
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| Emile Durkheim believed the increasing specialization of the division of labor in society lead people to be held together by their interdependence. He called this concept ____ |
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| The view that the beliefs and customs of ones own group are superior to the beliefs and customs of other groups. |
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| Max Weber believed that people in the moderm world were acting on different motives than they did in the past. Specifically he believed ___ |
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| Ethnocentrism is hard to avoid becuase ___ |
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| People are products of the social groups to which they belong and, therefore, have difficulty seeing things from the perspective of people from other social groups. |
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Sociological statements are easy to attack and hard to defend becuase ___ |
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It is impossible to have information about all members of a social group, so the statement may be an example of the hasty generalization fallacy. It is almost impossible to identify and control fro all the factors affecting a social outcome, so the statement may be an example of the false cause fallacy. |
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| The first german sociologist was ___ |
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| The view that society is not really harmonious but is made up of groups in competition for resources is tied to which sociological paradigm of perspective? |
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| Emile Durkheim believed that social facts could not be explained solely by psychological or biological facts, but only in relation to other social facts. Social facts have a realisty which is ___ |
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The other fucking language word |
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| Although he did not consider himself a sociologist, Karl Marx did have a theory of how society is organiazed. In Marx's theory the most important forces that shape society are ___ |
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| In this course, a 'naive observer' is describe as someone who ___ |
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| Relies solely on first-hand experiences to interpret the social world without looking for more and better data. |
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| Although he built on the work of other sociologists such as Durkheim and Weber, WEB DuBois believed these other scholars ____ |
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| Had lergely overlooked the impact of race and the race system on moderm society. |
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| In lecture Craig talked about Max Weber's idea that to understand how other people percieve the world we need to practicce an 'empathetic understanding' of their lives. He call this type of understanding ____ |
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| People don't always accurately report their behaviors because people often wont admit to negative behaviors |
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| Weakness of participant observation |
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| If people know they are being observed, they may change their behavior. |
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| Type of reseach: study the images, themes, and messages portrayed in films. |
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| Technical term for organizing your research to collect data from a variety of perpectives using multiple research methods is___ |
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According to Lisa McIntyre, socilogy began as a dicipline in the 1800's because |
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| Rapid changes in polictical, technological, and economic lives of Euroopeans beought great social upheavals and people wanted to fins answers to these new social problems. |
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