Syg2000 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

SYG2000 exam 1 EXAM 95 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) as discussed in class, symbolic interactionism provides a conceptual framework to view social life: 1. as largely individuals' efforts to define situations and make meanings 2. as primarily a series of rational choices that people make as they assess the costs and benefits of their actions 3. as primarily a reflection of how institutions are designed to carry out functions 4. as reflecting the numerou...

Sociological Imagination - Answer- the ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces. Verstehen - Answer- German; understanding. The concept of Verstehen forms the object of inquiry for interpretive sociology-- to study how social actors understand their actions and the social world through experience. Double Consciousness - Answer- two behavioral scripts, one for moving through the world and the other inco...

SYG2000 Quiz 1, 2, and 3 Review for Module 1 Test QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS Symbolic interactionists are focused on the individual only. - ANSWER- False Sociologists focus on social change and ignore social stability. - ANSWER- False According to Weber, sociological research should be used to promote political beliefs. - ANSWER- False Social Darwinists believed that social arrangements, including poverty and inequality, were natural and inevitable - ANSWER- True Symbo...

You and the other students in this classroom would most accurately be described as a(n) ___; someone you are dating or married to would most accurately be a part of a ___ group. A. aggregate, primary group B. aggregate, secondary group C. secondary group, aggregate D. secondary group, primary group - ANSWERSD. secondary group, primary group Ted worked at Office A for the last 10 years before accepting a job at Office Z. When he worked at Office A, Ted was able to wear shorts to wo...

SYG2000 Quiz 1, 2, and 3 Review for Module 1 Test QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS Symbolic interactionists are focused on the individual only. - ANSWER- False Sociologists focus on social change and ignore social stability. - ANSWER- False According to Weber, sociological research should be used to promote political beliefs. - ANSWER- False Social Darwinists believed that social arrangements, including poverty and inequality, were natural and inevitable - ANSWER- True Symbolic...

SYG2000 Chp4-7 PRACTICE EXAM ACTUAL EXAM 135 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A achieved status - ANSWER- the status a person chooses, such as level of education or income agricultural societies - ANSWER- societies that rely on farming as a way of life alienation - ANSWER- an individual's isolation from his society, his work, and his sense of self anomie - ANSWER- a situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective...

SYG2000 Quiz 1, 2, and 3 Review for Module 1 Test QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS Symbolic interactionists are focused on the individual only. - ANSWER- False Sociologists focus on social change and ignore social stability. - ANSWER- False According to Weber, sociological research should be used to promote political beliefs. - ANSWER- False Social Darwinists believed that social arrangements, including poverty and inequality, were natural and inevitable - ANSWER- True Symbolic...

Sociological Imagination - C. Wright Mills - Answer- The ability to connect the most basic, intimate aspects of an individual's life to seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces. Verstehen - Max Weber - Answer- The concept is the basis of interpretative sociology in which researchers imagine themselves experiencing the life positions of the social actors they want to understand rather than treating those people as objects to be examined. Double Consciousness - W.E.B. Du Bois - Ans...

SYG2000 midterm chap 1-10 EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A society - ANSWER- A community of people who share a common culture Wright Mills- sociological imagination - ANSWER- describe the ability to "think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life" and look at them from an entirely new perspective. sociology - ANSWER- The study of how people interact Social Sciences - ANSWER- Related disciplines that study various as...

SYG2000 Chp4-7 PRACTICE EXAM ACTUAL EXAM 135 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A achieved status - ANSWER- the status a person chooses, such as level of education or income agricultural societies - ANSWER- societies that rely on farming as a way of life alienation - ANSWER- an individual's isolation from his society, his work, and his sense of self anomie - ANSWER- a situation in which society no longer has the support of a firm collective...