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SYG 2000 final exam 2023/130 Questionsand Answers/Solved/Graded A+
Sociological Imagination - -the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an
individuals life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces. Ability to see the
connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history
-The Chicago School - -the emergence of American sociology was characterize by
(focused empirical research) , applied perspective, and was best embodied by what came
to be referred as "Chicago School) named for many of its proponents' affiliation with U
Chicago. Its basic premise was that humans' behaviors and personalities are shaped by
their social and physical environments, a concept known as social ecology.
-The Looking Glass Self - -by Charles Horton Cooley. The self emerges from our ability
to assume the point of view of others and thereby imagine how they see us
-The Generalized Other - -- our view of the views of society as a whole that transcends
individuals or particular situations. An internalized sense of the total expectations of
others in a variety of settings- regardless of whether we've encountered those people or
places before.
-Functionalism - -the theory that various social institutions and processes in society
exist to serve some important (or necessary) function to keep society running
-Feminist Theory - -catchfall term for many theories (including Marxist theory), and
has an emphasis on women's experiences and a belief that sociology and society in
general subordinate women
-Symbolic Interaction Theory - -a micro-level theory in which shared meanings,
orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions. Laid
by Erving Goffman's
, -Micro sociology - -seeks to understand local interactional contexts; its methods of
choice are ethnographic, generally including participant observation and in-depth
interviews
-Macrosociology - -generally concerned with social dynamics at a higher level of
analysis- that is, across the breadth of a society
-Qualitative Sociology - -methods that attempt to collect information about the social
world that annot be readily converted to numeric form.
-Quantitative - -methods that seek to obtain information about the social world that is
already in or can be converted to numeric form.
-Research Methods - -Research Methods- approaches that social scientists use for
investigating the answers to questions
-Deductive Methods - -research that starts with a theory, forms a hypothesis, makes
empirical observations, and then analyzes he data to confirm reject, or modify the
original theory
-Inductive Methods - -research approach that starts with empirical observations and
then works to forma theory
-Correlation - -- or association is a simultaneous variation in two variables ( for
example thres a correlation between income and health)
-Causality - -notion that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in
another(very difficult in social science). Three factors are needed, correlation, time
order, and ruling out alternative explanations
-Dependent Variables - -the outcome that the researcher is trying to explain
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