Summaries: (50 words or more each answer) (which is a paragraph)
1.1 Describe how theory and research are connected.
1.2 Desribe how quantitative research uses survey research to establish patterns of behavior and outcomes in society.
1.3 Desribe how qualitative research uses interview, field, and observational research to establish patterns of behavior and outcomes in society.
1.4 Describethe difference betweeen positive correlation and negative correlation.
1.5 Describe the correlation between a sample and a population. Briefly describe the types of sampling used and why.
Sociological Discussion Questions: (50 words or more for each answer)
1. Using the social issue you picked for Chapter 1 outline, how you would study it in a qualitative research study?
2. Using the social issue you picked for Chapter 1 outline, how you would study it in a quantitative research study?
1. Chapter 2 Homework READ ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THEM
Instructions:
1. Think of the research question you thought of for your chapter 2 outline. Which sampling issue might you run into if you were to conduct your qualitative study? What do you think you might do to mitigate the sampling issue?
2. Define in your own words spurious relationships. What is the danger with capturing a spurious relationship when testing variables?
3. Describe fully the role of a literature review in a research project. Describe fully the role of peer review.
4. Thinking of social desirability bias, what might you need to be aware of if you were to conduct your quantitative study for your research question in chapter 2 outline? Is there anything sensitive about your question that people might not answer truthfully at first? How does a researcher make sure that survey research is valid given what we know about social desirability bias?
5. Why is qualitative research valid even if we cant generalize to the whole population? What do we learn from qualitative and how is it linked to Verstehen?
6. Describe fully the reasons behind the standards of ethics we have today in research. Describe fully what researchers do to ensure ethical research. And describe fully what I meant in lecture by special populations and the reason we show special care to them.
Summaries: (50 words or more each answer) (which is a paragraph)
1.1 Describe how cultural sociologists argue that cultural products reflect social anxieties.
1.2 Desribe how media is a vehicle of culture and cultural reproduction.
1.3 Desribe how material and non material culture are intertwined.
1.4 Describe habitus and how structure and agency affect choices
1.5 Describe the arguement of how media may influence the normalizing of violence
Sociological Discussion Questions: (50 words or more for each answer)
1. This chapter suggests that mass media may play a paradoxical role in society, offering both the information needed to bring about an informed citizenry and disseminating mass entertainment that distracts and disengages individuals from debates of importance. Which of these functions do you think is more powerful and why?
2. Have you ever experienced the tension between real and ideal culture? What was the ideal culture, and what was the real culture? How did it feel to experience this cultural inconsistency?
1. Conflict THEORY HOMEWORK READ ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THEM
Write in your own words.
1. Marx theorized about the division of labor in society. What are the names of the two groups? What distinction is there between the two groups?
2. What two main reasons does Marx give for why capitalism is inherently contentious as an economic system?
3. How is Marxs concept of Species Being connected to his argument about why capitalism alienates labor? Describe fully in your own words (do not parrot my lecture).
4. What three problems stem from the exploitation of labor? How does this contribute the destabilization of the economy?
5. What did Marx predict would happen because of the problems of capitalism?
6. What did Marx fail to consider in his theory that conflict theorists now utilize in their analysis of society?
