Thomas Theorem - CORRECT ANSWER The ____________states that if people perceive
something is real then it is real in its consequences.
Program
... [Show More] Evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER This is the systematic application of scientific
methods to assess the design, implementation, improvement or outcomes of a program.
Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER ___________________ is the study of the social world
around us, the social causes, and consequences of human behavior.
Social Sciences - CORRECT ANSWER _________________ are fields of academic scholarship
which explore various aspects of human society and social life.
culture - CORRECT ANSWER What term refers to the norms, values, beliefs, behaviors and
meanings given to symbols in a society?
Ethnocentrism - CORRECT ANSWER ________________ is the tendency to judge others based
on own experiences and not look for the cultural context in which differences in cultures occur.
Subculture - CORRECT ANSWER A culture in which the groups have different folkways,
mores, and norms that exists within but is not at odds with the mainstream culture is
___________________.
Auguste Comte - CORRECT ANSWER Who is considered to be the founder of sociology and is
credited with coining the term?
Society - CORRECT ANSWER A group of people who share a defined territory is a
______________.
Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER These are measures calculated from a sample of data:
Values - CORRECT ANSWER Defined standards of what is good, bad, desirable, or undesirable
for ourselves and others are _____________.
Counterculture - CORRECT ANSWER A culture in which the values, norms, and beliefs are in
conflict with the main stream culture is _________________.
Geology - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following is NOT a social science?
Power - CORRECT ANSWER The ability to get what one wants even in the presence of
opposition is ___________.
Cultural Universals - CORRECT ANSWER Certain aspects of all cultures which are found
among people of all cultures throughout the world are _____________________.
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER A set of interrelated concepts used to describe, explain, and
predict how society and its parts are related to each other.
demographic - CORRECT ANSWER Researchers like to collect general information about the
study subjects (like gender, age, income, race, education level and other factors) in order to make
sure they have a representative sample. What type of information is this?
culture lag - CORRECT ANSWER When medicine, technology or the government changes
faster than or slower than another part of our society to which it is related, this can cause ethical
and cultural dilemmas. This issue is called:
Karl Marx - CORRECT ANSWER Whose writings reflected the conflict in society wherein the
poor masses are exploited by the wealthy elite?
Norms - CORRECT ANSWER Shared Expectations or rules of behavior are
_____________________.
Functionalist theory - CORRECT ANSWER Which theoretical perspective claims that society is
in a state of balance and kept that way through the function of society's component parts?
Symbols - CORRECT ANSWER __________________are anything that meaningfully
represents something else.
Acculturation - CORRECT ANSWER The process by which immigrants adjust and adapt their
way of life to the host culture.
Case studies - CORRECT ANSWER ___________ are research methods that rely on a single
case rather than a population or sample
Assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER The process by which people from different cultures are
acculturated and ultimately absorbed into main stream culture.
Symbolic Interactionist - CORRECT ANSWER Charles H. Cooley's and George Herbert Mead's
work gave tremendous support to the _______________ Theory, which originally focused on
how we form our sense of the "I" and the "me", the looking-glass self and the self-concept.
Participant observation - CORRECT ANSWER If a sociologist goes and lives undercover for a
long period of time with a subculture in order to study that subculture, what type of research is
he doing?
Max Weber - CORRECT ANSWER Who wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism?
Polls - CORRECT ANSWER _________ are surveys which are typically used to collect
opinions.
Emile Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER Who was the first social scholar who helped sociology
become part of higher education's academic culture?
Charles Cooley - CORRECT ANSWER Which sociologists proposed the theory of The
Looking-Glass Self?
Total Institutions - CORRECT ANSWER Which of the following is NOT one of the four
primary agents of socialization?
A human's temperament development is part nature and part nurture. - CORRECT ANSWER
Which of the following statements is true according to present-day sociologists?
Legal-rational - CORRECT ANSWER Most authority figures in the United States fall into what
category?
Aggregate - CORRECT ANSWER People at the same football game are considered what by
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