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GCU SOC-102 Our Social World- An Introduction to Sociology CH1 and 2 questions with answers
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GCU SOC-102 Our Social World- AnIntroduction to Sociology CH1 and 2
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Analytical Framework - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The coming together of analytic tools, such as
deconstruction with other tools, to be applied to a social process or phenomenon to establish social
scientific facts.
Categorization - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The selection of identifying elements or topics and
grouping facts by those topics.
Circular Pattern - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A type of discourse pattern that is a way of talking about a
topic, but not directly.
Deconstruction - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The analytical process of taking apart a whole unit in
order to understand it through its parts.
Definitional Framework - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A clustering of definitions of concepts within a
topic whereby the full meaning of the topic is attained. The understanding of the topic is established
through the definitions; resulting in a knowledge base of the topic.
Discourse Pattern - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Recurring patterns of communication and ways to
interact that are part of the culture of a society.
Empirical Research - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The process of examining a social phenomenon.
Goal of Sociology - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ To (1) understand the social world and (2) establish
scientific social facts.
Levels or Levels of Analysis - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ In sociological terms, these refer to the macro,
mid-range, and micro __________ at which society is viewed and analyzed.
, Linear Pattern - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A way of communicating where one directly engages a
topic with another.
Qualitative Data - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Data that involves empathy or sentiment from the
persons reporting the social phenomenon. Questions about how a person thinks or feels about a social
phenomenon will yield __________________ data.
Quantitative Data - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Data that is in numerical form. The U.S. census gives
__________________ data when it reports how many people are within certain racial groups in the
United States.
Scientific Method - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Adapted for sociological research, this ________ follows
eight steps: Step 1—Select a research topic; Step 2—Formulate a research question; Step 3—Review the
literature related to the research question; Step 4—Formulate the hypothesis; Step 5 Choose a research
method; Step 6—Collect the data; Step 7—Analyze data in order to draw conclusions and state the
results; Step 8—Share the results.
Scientific Social Facts - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The social expressions and processes that are
established and verified through the scientific method.
Social - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The interactions of humans with each other.
Social Audit - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ An analytic tool whereby the characteristics of a society are
stated through statistical and social scientific facts.
Social Construction - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The perspective that what one knows and experiences
is built up and through social interaction and this _________________ is viewed as human reality.
Sociological Imagination - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ A way of thinking that analyzes the social world
as an impartial observer specifically viewing how individuals shape society and how society shapes the
individual.
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