SOC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cultural Lag, Macrosociology, Role Conflict
31 May 2018
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Soc 101
Exam 1 -- Study guide
Ch. 1:
• What is sociology?
• sociological imagination
• C. Wright Mills
• Emile Durkheim/ Suicide/ types of solidarity
• social integration
• social facts
• origins of sociology as a discipline
• social Darwinism/Herbert Spencer
• Auguste Comte /positivism
• Karl Marx / types of alienation
• Max Weber / protestant ethic & capitalism/ verstehen
• symbolic interactionism / dramaturgy/ Goffman
• functionalism (aka structural functionalism or functional analysis)
o manifest & latent functions; dysfunctions
• conflict theory
• W.E.B. DuBois
• Jane Addams
• applied sociology
Ch. 5:
• steps of conducting research
• operational definitions of variables
• variables
• hypothesis
• validity
• reliability
• correlation vs. causation; spurious (cause, effect, and spurious correlations --text)
• how to read a table (text)
• how not to do research (text)
• different research methods
• population vs. sample
• representative sample
• random sample, stratified random sample, snowball sample
• importance of wording & ordering of survey questions
• response bias
• Pager’s experiment (“Mark of a Criminal Record”) (class lecture & text)
• ethical issues in sociological research
o what is unethical in sociological research?
• Brajuha research (text)
• Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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