SOCIOL 110 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Peer Pressure, Unintended Consequences, Social Change

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 110
• Professor: Paul Knudson

Document Summary

Logical positivism: belief that scientific knowledge and solving problems through logic is. August compte (1838): known as the father of sociology non-spiritual ways of putting order in the world superior to other forms of knowledge. Theory: guiding approach to empirical study: conflict theory. Social science - a set of lgical, systematic, documented methods for investigating society, people, and social processes. Our results either support or fail to report our hypothesis. Causation - a change in one variable results in a change in another variable variable. Dependent variable - variable that is affected by another. Independent variable - the variable that is manipulated to influence on the dependent: correlation, time order independent must come before dependent, statistical control one variable is held constant. If we have bad measures, our findings are meaningless. Operationalization - how we measure our variables our process. Reliability - a measure that provides consistent results. Inconsistent results suggest that the measurements are faulty.