SYG 2000 UCF FINAL EXAM LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 200
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to
seemingly impersonal
and remote historical forces - ANSWER: Sociological Imagination
Sociological Imagination person - ANSWER: C. Wright Mills
German for "understanding" - ANSWER: Verstehen
Verstehen person - ANSWER: Max Weber
forms the object of inquiry for interpretive
sociology—to study how social actors understand their actions and the social world
through experience - ANSWER: Verstehen
A concept which describes the two behavioral scripts which are constantly
maintained by African Americans - ANSWER: Double Consciousness
Double Consciousness person - ANSWER: W.E.B. Du Bois
Two behavioral scripts constantly maintained by African Americans are: - ANSWER:
moving thru the world
incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers
Conflict Theory person - ANSWER: Karl Marx
The idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic animating force of
social change and society in general throughout history - ANSWER: Conflict Theory
Who said history is an account of man's struggle to gain control? - ANSWER: Karl
Marx
shares ideas with Marxist theory - Marxist emphasis on conflict and political reform -
ANSWER: Feminist theory
an emphasis on women's experiences and a belief that sociology and society in
general subordinate women - ANSWER: Feminist theory
emphasize equality between men and women and want to see women's lives and
experiences represented in sociological studies - ANSWER: Feminist theory
Concerned with how power relationships are defined, shaped, and reproduced on
the basis of gender differences - ANSWER: Feminist theory
,a micro-level theory in which, shared meanings, orientations, and
assumptions from the basic motivations behind people's actions. - ANSWER:
Symbolic Interaction Theory
This paradigm operates on the basic premise of a cycle of meaning-- namely the idea
that people act in response to the meaning that signs and social signals hold for
them - ANSWER: Symbolic Interaction Theory
A condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progress and history, the
replacement of narrative within pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting,
identities resulting from disjointed affiliations. - ANSWER: Post-modernism Theory
Shared meanings have eroded, no longer one version of history that is correct as
everything is interpretable. - ANSWER: Post-modernism Theory
A theory that attempts to predict how certain social institutions tend to function;
generates falsifiable hypotheses - predictions that can be tested by analyzing the real
world - ANSWER: Midrange Theory
seek to obtain information about the social world that is in, or can be converted to
numeric form - ANSWER: Quantitative Approach
attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be readily
converted to numeric form - ANSWER: Qualitative Approach
What do qualitative and quantitative approaches do? - ANSWER: provide ways to
establish causal relationships between social elements
starts with theory, forms a hypothesis, makes empirical observations, and then
analyzes the data to confirm, rejcet, or modify the original theory - ANSWER:
Deductive method
General -> specific - ANSWER: deductive reasoning
starts with empirical observations and then works to form a theory determining if
correlation exists - ANSWER: Inductive Method
Specific -> general - ANSWER: inductive reasoning
when two variables tend to track each other positively or negatively - ANSWER:
Correlation
the notion that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another -
ANSWER: Causality
, 3 factors needed to establish causality - ANSWER: correlation, time order, and ruling
out alternative explanations
The outcome that a researcher is trying to explain - ANSWER: dependent variable
A measured factor that the researcher believes has a causal impact on the
dependent variable (the variable that is changed or controlled) - ANSWER:
independent variable
A proposed relationship between two variables, usually with a stated direction -
ANSWER: hypothesis
The sum of the social categories and concepts we embrace in addition to beliefs,
behaviors (except instinctual ones), and practices; everything but the natural
environment around us - ANSWER: Culture
Oldest understandings of _________ focuses on the distinction between natural -
ANSWER: culture
the belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to
view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own - ANSWER: ethnocentrism
Everything that is a part of our constructed, physical environment, such as
technology, books, fashion, and monuments - ANSWER: Material culture
Encompasses values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms - ANSWER: Nonmaterial
culture
The time gap between the appearance of a new technology and the words and
practices that give it meaning - ANSWER: Cultural Lag
When it takes time for culture to catch up with technological innovations - ANSWER:
Cultural Lag
To flip fluidly between two or more languages and sets of cultural norms to fit
different cultural contexts - ANSWER: Code Switching
What is this an example of...
Many minority groups like African Americans learn to switch their daily lives by going
back and forth between English and African American English - ANSWER: Code
Switching
A system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect -
ANSWER: Ideology
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to
seemingly impersonal
and remote historical forces - ANSWER: Sociological Imagination
Sociological Imagination person - ANSWER: C. Wright Mills
German for "understanding" - ANSWER: Verstehen
Verstehen person - ANSWER: Max Weber
forms the object of inquiry for interpretive
sociology—to study how social actors understand their actions and the social world
through experience - ANSWER: Verstehen
A concept which describes the two behavioral scripts which are constantly
maintained by African Americans - ANSWER: Double Consciousness
Double Consciousness person - ANSWER: W.E.B. Du Bois
Two behavioral scripts constantly maintained by African Americans are: - ANSWER:
moving thru the world
incorporating the external opinions of prejudiced onlookers
Conflict Theory person - ANSWER: Karl Marx
The idea that conflict between competing interests is the basic animating force of
social change and society in general throughout history - ANSWER: Conflict Theory
Who said history is an account of man's struggle to gain control? - ANSWER: Karl
Marx
shares ideas with Marxist theory - Marxist emphasis on conflict and political reform -
ANSWER: Feminist theory
an emphasis on women's experiences and a belief that sociology and society in
general subordinate women - ANSWER: Feminist theory
emphasize equality between men and women and want to see women's lives and
experiences represented in sociological studies - ANSWER: Feminist theory
Concerned with how power relationships are defined, shaped, and reproduced on
the basis of gender differences - ANSWER: Feminist theory
,a micro-level theory in which, shared meanings, orientations, and
assumptions from the basic motivations behind people's actions. - ANSWER:
Symbolic Interaction Theory
This paradigm operates on the basic premise of a cycle of meaning-- namely the idea
that people act in response to the meaning that signs and social signals hold for
them - ANSWER: Symbolic Interaction Theory
A condition characterized by a questioning of the notion of progress and history, the
replacement of narrative within pastiche, and multiple, perhaps even conflicting,
identities resulting from disjointed affiliations. - ANSWER: Post-modernism Theory
Shared meanings have eroded, no longer one version of history that is correct as
everything is interpretable. - ANSWER: Post-modernism Theory
A theory that attempts to predict how certain social institutions tend to function;
generates falsifiable hypotheses - predictions that can be tested by analyzing the real
world - ANSWER: Midrange Theory
seek to obtain information about the social world that is in, or can be converted to
numeric form - ANSWER: Quantitative Approach
attempt to collect information about the social world that cannot be readily
converted to numeric form - ANSWER: Qualitative Approach
What do qualitative and quantitative approaches do? - ANSWER: provide ways to
establish causal relationships between social elements
starts with theory, forms a hypothesis, makes empirical observations, and then
analyzes the data to confirm, rejcet, or modify the original theory - ANSWER:
Deductive method
General -> specific - ANSWER: deductive reasoning
starts with empirical observations and then works to form a theory determining if
correlation exists - ANSWER: Inductive Method
Specific -> general - ANSWER: inductive reasoning
when two variables tend to track each other positively or negatively - ANSWER:
Correlation
the notion that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another -
ANSWER: Causality
, 3 factors needed to establish causality - ANSWER: correlation, time order, and ruling
out alternative explanations
The outcome that a researcher is trying to explain - ANSWER: dependent variable
A measured factor that the researcher believes has a causal impact on the
dependent variable (the variable that is changed or controlled) - ANSWER:
independent variable
A proposed relationship between two variables, usually with a stated direction -
ANSWER: hypothesis
The sum of the social categories and concepts we embrace in addition to beliefs,
behaviors (except instinctual ones), and practices; everything but the natural
environment around us - ANSWER: Culture
Oldest understandings of _________ focuses on the distinction between natural -
ANSWER: culture
the belief that one's own culture or group is superior to others and the tendency to
view all other cultures from the perspective of one's own - ANSWER: ethnocentrism
Everything that is a part of our constructed, physical environment, such as
technology, books, fashion, and monuments - ANSWER: Material culture
Encompasses values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms - ANSWER: Nonmaterial
culture
The time gap between the appearance of a new technology and the words and
practices that give it meaning - ANSWER: Cultural Lag
When it takes time for culture to catch up with technological innovations - ANSWER:
Cultural Lag
To flip fluidly between two or more languages and sets of cultural norms to fit
different cultural contexts - ANSWER: Code Switching
What is this an example of...
Many minority groups like African Americans learn to switch their daily lives by going
back and forth between English and African American English - ANSWER: Code
Switching
A system of concepts and relationships, an understanding of cause and effect -
ANSWER: Ideology
