Soci 100 UPenn Midterm/ 129 Qs & Ans/ . Terms like:
Sociology - Answer: the scientific study of the social lives of individuals, groups, and societies, and the interactions between these
The mission of sociology is to teach us how to understand the behaviors, beliefs, and feelings of those a...
Soci 100 UPenn Midterm/ 129 Qs & Ans/ 2024-
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Sociology - Answer: the scientific study of the social lives of individuals, groups, and societies, and the interactions between these
The mission of sociology is to teach us how to understand the behaviors, beliefs, and feelings of those around us and to answer key questions about the human condition
sociological imagination - Answer: the capacity to shift from the perspective of the personal experience to the grander, societal scale, that has caused of influenced that personal experience. Coined by C. Wright Mills
Macrosociology - Answer: the study of large-scale social systems
Page 1 of 22 Microsociology - Answer: the study of personal concerns and interpersonal interactions
Agency - Answer: our capacity to make our own choices and act autonomously.
social structures - Answer: refer to the patterned social arrangements that may constrain (or facilitate) our choices and opportunities
social heirarchies - Answer: comprised of race, class, gender, age, and other axes of inequality
Intersectionality - Answer: a theoretical tradition emphasizing that our overlapping identities and group memberships are critical to our life experiences
Basic Research - Answer: a form of research that seeks to answer theoretically informed questions or resolve fundamental intellectual puzzles about social behavior
Applied Research - Answer: a form of research that seeks to answer a question or concrete problem in the real world or to evaluate a policy or program
Quantitative - Answer: rely on data that can be represented by, and summarized into, numbers
Page 2 of 22 Qualitative - Answer: collect and analyze data that enable rich description in words or images
Mixed-methods approach - Answer: uses more than one method in a single study
Triangulation - Answer: used by researchers to determine if different types of evidence and approaches lead to consistent findings (i.e. searching on google, bing, and yahoo to see if all the answers are similar)
Cross-sectional study design - Answer: a study in which data are collected at only one point in time
Benefits of cross-sectional study design - Answer: • No need to re-contact subjects
• Can be quickly implemented to address current events and hot- button issues
• inexpensive
Limitations of cross-sectional study design - Answer: • Cannot assess causal ordering
Repeated cross-sectional study design - Answer: a type of longitudinal study in which data are collected at multiple time points, but from different subjects at each time point
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