Sociology Exam #1

Informal norm that is mildly punished when violated

Set of statements or propositions that seeks to explain a particular aspect of social life

Pattern of behavior within existing social institutions that is widely accepted in society

Standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcomes

Capable only of identifying things that have a high likelihood of influencing human action

What are the key concepts of the structural-functionalist perspective?

A social position acquired through our own efforts or accomplishments or taken on voluntarily

Suicide that occurs in settings where the individual is emphasized over community connections

The groups to which we belong and toward which we feel a sense of loyalty

A method of studying society that uses photographs, video recordings, and film

Suicide that occurs when the structure of society is weakened and people feel hopeless

What is an example of someone who might commit altruistic suicide?

A group consisting of two people

Culture in which heterosexuality is accepted as the normal mode of sexual expression

Perspective that says that social institutions are structured to maintain stability in society

Social response that punishes or otherwise discourages violations of a social norm

Highly codified, formal, systematized norms that bring severe punishment when violated

Unintended, unrecognized consequences of activities that help some part of the social system

People who interact more or less regularly who are conscious of their identity as a unit

This is the systematic study of human societies

A population of people living in the same geographic area who share a culture

Is the Conflict Perspective a micro or macro theory?

Unquestioned cultural belief that cannot be proved wrong no matter what happens to dispute it

Variable presumed to cause or influence the dependent variable

What is the weakness of structural functionalism?

Social research in which the researcher asks a series of questions verbally, online, & on paper

The frustration people feel when a role clashes with another role

Situations in which people lack the necessary resources to fulfill the demands of a role

What is an example of someone who might commit egoistic suicide?

Focuses on the broad social forces of society that exist above the level of individual people

Intruding into people's lives may influence the phenomenon being studied

What are the key concepts of the conflict perspective?

Sociological Research based on the collection of numeric data

Unobtrusive research that relies on data gathered earlier for some other purpose

To fully understand the nature of human life, we must acknowledge the (blank)

Who was the main theorist of the Conflict Perspective?

Process through which the members of a society discover, make known, and reaffirm "truths"

Measurable event, characteristic, or behavior commonly thought to reflect a particular concept

Social Institutions are structured to maintain stability and order in society

Variable that is assumed to be caused by, or to change as a result of, the independent variable

What is the weakness of Symbolic Interactionism?

Suicide that occurs when people see no possible way to improve their oppressive circumstances

Compares existing stats and records across groups to test a theory about a social phenomenon

Is Symbolic Interactionism a micro or macro theory?

Is the structural-functionalist perspective a micro or macro theory?

Form of social research that relies on existing historical documents as a source of data

Artifacts of a society that represent adaptations to the social and physical environment

This is the tendency to attribute people's achievements & failures to their personal qualities

Way of examining human life that focuses on the immediate, everyday experiences of individuals

Which one of these is an example of a Social Institution?

Principle that people's beliefs&activities should be interpreted in terms of their own culture

Something used to represent or stand for something else

Theoretical perspective that focuses on gender as the most important source of conflict

This is a subgroup of a triad. Forms when two members unite against the third member

Individuals together for a long period whose members have direct contact and feel attachment

Research through controlled, systematic observations in the real world

Assumption or prediction that in itself causes the expected event to occur

Process through which people's lives all around the world become culturally interconnected

A false association between two variables that is actually due to the effect of a 3rd variable

Type of social research in which the researcher observes events as they actually occur

Unobtrusive research that studies the content of books, speeches, songs, poems, & ads

Sociological research based on nonnumeric information

Culturally defined standard or rule of conduct

Intended, obvious consequences of activities that help some part of the social system

Set of expectations-rights, obligations, behaviors, duties--associated with a particular status

Research typically conducted under closely controlled laboratory circumstances

What is an example of someone who might commit an anomic suicide?

An organization has these characteristics

What are the key concepts of the symbolic interactionist perspective?

What is an example of someone who might commit fatalistic suicide?

Typical of the whole population being studied

When a researcher observes people w/o directly interacting with them & letting them know

Group consisting of three people

Which theorist is associated with the Structural Functionalist Perspective?

The groups to which we don't belong and toward which we feel a certain amount of antagonism

Groups that work to have their moral concerns translated into law

The language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a society.

Tendency to judge other cultures using one's own as a standard

Suicide that occurs where ties to the group are more important than individual identity

Subgroup chosen for a study because its characteristics approximate those of everyone

This is a social position acquired at birth or taken on involuntarily later in life

This is the ability to see the impact of social forces on our private lives

What is the weakness of the Conflict Perspective?

Relatively impersonal collection of individuals thats established to perform a specific task

Form of field research in which the researcher interacts w/the subjects

Individuals in whom sexual differentiation is either incomplete or ambiguous

Researchable prediction that specifies the relationship between two or more variables