soc mt 1

social facts vs social constraints

emile durkheim

ideas linked to Emile Durkheim

how our actions are limited as by Durkheim

main ideas of Karl Marx

Max Weber

August Comte ideas

Ideas of Harriet Martineau

ideas of WEB Dubios

Dubois and the self

examples of rationalization

Herbert Mead

Robert Merton

ideas of marxism

feminist theory

rational choice theory

post-modernistic theory

how sociology helps us

middle range theories

How did Emile Durkheim think that the division of labor contributes to organic solidarity in modern societies?

How can sociology have practical implications?

The functionalist approach has been criticized for ?

The concept of __________ refers to the fact that social contexts are not random events but have distinct patterns.

According to some postmodern theorists, such as Jean Baudrillard, how has the spread of electronic media affected society?

Postmodern theorists argue that much of our world is now

According to Max Weber, _________ is a general process through which social, economic, and cultural life is organized according to principles of efficiency, on the basis of technical knowledge.

How is the sociological imagination key to the study of sociology?

What best describes one of the principal aims of sociology?

Which of the following is one of the contributions that Harriet Martineau made to the field of sociology?

Sociology can be said to have developed as a result of efforts to understand the effects of __

Alice Goffman' research

Park and Ogburn: purpose

Park's ideas about soc as a science

Ogburn's ideas about soc as a science

ways that soc is a science

ways that soc is unlike natural science

steps in the research process:

importance of hypotheses

causation vs correlation

the importance of controls

list 3 research methods in soc research

pros and cons of ethnography

pros and cons of surveys

pros/cons of experiments

life history as a research method

comparative research

historical research

common research methods

culture vs society

human culture: how its shapes society

why sociologists avoid ethnocentrism

judging a society by its own standards

importance of language

how cultural meanings are expressed /formed

types of human societies

industrialized society key points

effects of globalization

How do developing countries today differ from traditional civilizations?

Which of the following statements best captures sociologist Ann Swidler's notion of culture as a "tool kit"?

What is a primary difference, besides food sources, between agrarian societies and both pastoral societies and hunting and gathering communities?

Which of the following is an example of a cultural value?

The Nature versus Nurture debate examines the importance of

According to the linguistic relativity hypothesis, how does language influence our perceptions of the world?

cultural turn

Which of the following is a characteristic of preindustrial civilizations?

NIEs

role play importance

the importance of organized play in children

sensorimotor stage:

pre-operational stage

concrete operational

formal operational stage

Not everyone reaches formal operational stage- depends on level of schooling

adults of limited education think in concrete terms with

primary socialization

socialization stages: who socializes them?

traditional vs modern social position acquistion

peer groups

peer groups vs age-grades

Barrie Thorne and gender play main ideas

Barrie Thorne on gender socialization

According to Hodge and Tripp, it is not the vio-
lence alone that affects behavior but

mass media: video game effects on schoolwork

social roles

functionalist view on social roles

how individuals come to assume social roles

social identity

social identities vs self identities

how we learn gender roles

the problem with freuds theories

Chodorow's views on gender socialization

Chodorow's criticisms

Which of the following statements is central to Jean Piaget's ideas about child development?

From a sociological perspective, what is a characteristic of human beings that most distinguishes us from other animals?

How are social identity and self-identity different?

Which of the following is an example of a formal way that schools serve as socializing agents?

How is old age viewed differently in traditional and modern societies?

What new perspective did researchers Robert Hodge and David Tripp bring to the study of television programs affect children?

civil inattention

Erving Goffman founded what

Goffman on daily routines

Goffman: reality

importance of social interaction

central insight of goffman

places where there's no audience segregation

the importance of civil inattention

Goffman's beliefs of what sociologists should focus on

Conclusion of Ekman's study

Influences of facial expressions

the problem with the internet

A central insight of sociology since Goffman

James Henslin and Mae Biggs study

focused interaction leads to...

all interactions are

In focused interac-
tion, each person communicates as much by facial expression
and gesture as by the words actually exchanged.

unfocused interactions online

impression management

impression management and internet

small talk and social context

the importance of shared understanding in social lives

importance of small talk

Garfinkel student study on street interchanges with talk

interactional vandalism describes cases
like these in which a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules
of everyday interaction that are of value to the more powerful.

Interactional vandalism
is closely tied up with overarching class, gender, and racial
structures

response cries as impression management

controlled alertness

Edward Hall and personal space

importance of social life with clocks in time-space and regionalization

how internet changes space time intractions

pros and cons of internet to social interactions

result of increased internet usage

compulsion of proximity

importance of coprescence

. In societ-
ies where men on the whole dominate women in both public
and private life, men may feel freer than women to make eye
contact with strangers.

how nonverbal communication eludes to gender inequalities

Gardner on harassment of women

Anderson: micro macrosoc and class inequalities

Impression management refers

According to research, how has the increase in the use of electronic communication in the workplace affected face-to-face interaction in offices?

Why is it important to link microsociology and macrosociology when analyzing everyday social interactions?

social aggregate vs social group

primary vs secondary groups

primary and secondary group purposes

prevalence of primary and secondary groups in history

secondary groups effect on intimacy

reference groups types and importance

George Simmels study of dyads

large group interactions with others

Asch's conformity study

Milgram's study

Janis and the group think study

personal networks

networks vs social groups

network characteristics

importance of internet in social network

factors effecting internet usage

organizations can be primary or secondary

example of A formal organization is
designed to achieve its objectives, often by means of explicit rules, regulations, and procedures.

traditional and modern social systems

pros and cons of orgs

Weber on beuracracy

ideal bueracracy by weber

informal vs formal relations

Meyer and Rowan on formal relations

Merton feared that formal relations rigidity could lead to
bureaucratic ritualism

Burns and Stalker 2 orgs types: mechanistic and organic

Foucault

timetables

Ritzer mcdonald principles

japanese vs weberian bureaucracy

Networked organizations offer at least two advantages
over more bureaucratic ones: They can foster the flow of in-
formation, and they can enhance creativity. As we’ve seen,
bureaucratic hierarchy can impede the flow of information

What concern does sociologist George Ritzer share with Max Weber about the effects of rationalization on modern society?

According to Max Weber, why is the expansion of bureaucracy inevitable in modern societies?

According to the political scientist Robert Putnam, one of the most important factors to the health of a modern democracy is

Judy Wajcman, which of the following has the most influence on the type of management techniques used in an organization

What is one major difference in how computerization has affected highly skilled professionals versus less-skilled production and service workers?

The increase in the popularity of the corporate culture approach to management is due in part to

Kanter on women in professions