UNT SOCI 1510 Final Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024
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UNT SOCI 1510 Final Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024
Sociology - ANSWER-The study of scientific ways of thinking about social life.
conflict theory - ANSWER-a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the role of power and coercion in producing social order.
Critical Distance - ANSWER-De...
- being able to detach from the situation at hand and view things with a critical mind
- Have the role of strangers in social groups
- Combination of nearness and distance
able to detach
Debunking - ANSWER-Debunking refers to looking behind the facades of everyday life
- Examining Controversial Topics, Peter Berger calls it Debunking.
Diversity - ANSWER-a central theme studied by sociologists.
- It is an important issue in any society, particularly in the United States.
- Racial and ethnic minority groups currently comprise 27% of those living in this country.
- Diversity is a broad concept that includes:
- studying differences in opportunities available to various groups in society
- the shaping of social institutions by different social factors
- the formation of group and individual identity
the process of social change
- Diversity includes the study of different cultural orientations.
Empirical - ANSWER-refers to something that is based on careful and systematic observation.
,Emergence of Sociology - ANSWER-19th Century; Independent field of study of human social creation,
not divinely ordained. It changed the way people think about themselves and society.
Enlightenment - ANSWER-18th - 19th Century; Europe characterized by faith in the ability of human
reason to solve individuals and society's problems.
Enlightenment Thought - ANSWER-Reasons and Rationality; Innate Reason - Able to think about things,
and govern themselves.
Positivism - ANSWER-observation to be the highest form of knowledge.
feminist theory - ANSWER-analyses of women and men in society intended to improve women's lives.
functionalism - ANSWER-a theoretical perspective that interprets each part of society in terms of how it
contributes to the stability of the whole society.
globalization - ANSWER-increased economic, political, and social interconnectedness and
interdependence among societies in the world
issue - ANSWER-affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements
and history of a society.
- Issues shape the context within which troubles arise.
- Unemployment is seen as rooted in the structure of society
positivism - ANSWER-a system of thought that regards scientific observation to be the highest form of
knowledge.
social change - ANSWER-the alteration of social interaction, social institutions, stratification systems, and
elements of culture over time.
social facts - ANSWER-social pattern that is external to individuals.
,social institution - ANSWER-offers a close-up focus on social interactions in specific situations
- An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society
- The ability to see the societal patterns that influence the individual as well as groups of individuals
social interaction - ANSWER-behavior between two or more people that is given meaning.
- social structure
sociological imagination - ANSWER-Wright Mills coined the term =
· sociology
symbolic interaction theory - ANSWER-a theoretical perspective claiming that people act toward things
because of the meaning things have for them.
troubles - ANSWER-are privately felt problems that spring from events or feelings in a person's life.
Verstehen - ANSWER-the process of understanding social behavior from the point of view of those
engaged in it.
Karl Marx - ANSWER-2 major concepts:
- Capitalism is built on exploiting labor groups for profit,
- Class conflict is embedded in the system of capitalism that then shapes other social institutions.
Merton - ANSWER-saw that social practices often have consequences for society that are not
immediately apparent. He suggested that human behavior has both manifest and latent functions.
Parson - ANSWER-All parts of a social system are interrelated , with different parts of society having
different basic functions.
August Comte - ANSWER-Positivism
, · Early Theorist - ANSWER-:Alexis de Tocqueville: France
:Harriet Martineau: British
content analysis - ANSWER-the analysis of meanings in cultural artifacts such as books, songs, and other
forms of cultural communication.
controlled experiments - ANSWER-a method of collecting data that can determine whether something
actually causes something else.
- Controlled experiments are useful for determining cause and effect patterns.
- Two different groups are created:
- an experimental group, exposed to the factor/variable being examined
- a control group, not exposed to the factor/variable being tested
Correlation - ANSWER-the degree of positive (direct) or negative (inverse) association between two
variables.
covert participant observation - ANSWER-the form of participant observation wherein the observed
individuals are not told that they are being studied.
cross-tabulation - ANSWER-a table that shows how the categories of two variables are related.
Data - ANSWER-the systematic information that sociologists use to investigate research questions.
data analysis - ANSWER-the process by which sociologists organize collected data to discover what
patterns and uniformities are revealed.
- Sometimes unexpected or unanticipated findings are made
- These may direct researchers into a new area of study
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