Deck 1: What Do Sociologists Do

Question 1

Society is made up of many groups.What is the smallest group? ______

A) Monad
B) Dyad
C) Triad
D) Cluster

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The lowest level of analysis for sociologists is the _______.

A) Individual
B) Dyad
C) Group
D) Autonome

Answer 2

A

Question 3

_______ are explanations of particular social phenomena.

A) Theories
B) Diagnostics
C) Premises
D) Data

Answer 3

A

Question 4

A _______ gives the relationship between two factors or characteristics that vary from case to case of whatever we are studying.

A) Corollary
B) Theory
C) Complex
D) Proposition

Question 5

______ was a glaring exception to Durkheim's theory on religion and suicide.

A) Sweden
B) Spain
C) Russia
D) England

Question 6

Theories about individuals in small groups are called:

A) Social Psychological Theories.
B) Social Fraternal Theories
C) Social Network Theories
D) Social Relations Theories

Question 7

One method sociologists have for studying larger groups is _____, where a researcher visits the group under study and physically observes what goes on in the group.

A) Field Research
B) Group Analysis
C) Internal Diagnostics
D) Visitation

Question 8

______ is the view, first, that social phenomena can be studied like any other phenomena.

A) Equality
B) Positivism
C) Negativism
D) Phenomanism

Question 9

_______ suggests that because researchers are embedded in a particular culture (their own), complete objectivity is impossible.

A) The internal bias
B) Selective Bias
C) Post Modernism
D) Neo-Classicism

Question 10

According to Postmodernists, there are

A) no truly objective "facts"
B) certain truths "set in stone"
C) alien races living among us.
D) several explanations for every problem but there is always one "best outcome"

Question 11

______ is the problem that, in doing social research, we ourselves change the social processes we are studying, so therefore what we report is not what would have gone on if we had not studied it.

A) Internal Bias
B) Manipulation
C) Reactivity
D) Relativity

Question 12

A famous example of ______ is the "Hawthorne effect".

A) Internal Bias
B) Data Fabrication
C) Postmodernism
D) Reactivity

Question 13

_____ are methods designed to reduce or eliminate reactivity.

A) Obtrusive Methods.
B) Distractive Methods.
C) Sneaky Methods.
D) Unobtrusive Methods.

Question 14

The sociologists' ability to generalize about groups of people results from the fact that _________.

A) most people respond in similar ways to similar situations.
B) people are inherently good.
C) everyone is exactly the same.
D) humans are more closely related to parrots than crabs.

Question 15

_______ was one of the first to examine the effects of this complex interaction between human nature and the social context on behavior.

A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) Edvard Westermarck
C) Karl Marx
D) Emile Durkheim

Question 16

_______ is the ability to understand how private troubles reflect public issues.

A) Multicultural Awareness
B) Anatomical Awareness
C) The Sociological Imagination
D) Multi-hemispherical Dexterity

Question 17

__________ is the name given to the process of dismantling of dominant perspectives and revealing them for what they are-the biased point of view of one particular group.

A) Deconstruction
B) Reconstruction
C) Construction
D) Destruction

Question 18

Postmodernism was developed in _______.

A) the late 19^th century
B) the 1950s
C) the 1980's and 90's
D) feudal Japan

Question 19

______ means that the scientist, in his or her professional capacity, does not take sides on issues of moral or ethical significance.

A) Professional Bias
B) Ethically Neutral
C) The Hawthorne effect.
D) Postmodernism

Question 20

Sociologists use the Scientific Method.

Question 21

Durkheim found that Protestant countries had lower suicide rates than Catholic countries.

Question 22

Propositions can be either general or specific.

Question 23

If a statement cannot generate a testable hypothesis and therefore cannot be tested, it is a theory.

Question 24

According to the scientific method, Sociological research must take sides on issues of moral or ethical significance.

Question 25

Postmodernism was a movement which involved only the social sciences

Question 26

The Postmodernist critique cannot be completely true.

Question 27

Research on humans must always be ethical.

Question 28

Later experiments did not support Westermarck's conclusions concerning children being raised together and subsequent lack of sexual attraction.

Question 29

Our social setting affects our behavior.

Question 30

Give Durkheim's Theory as a set of Propositions.

Question 31

Why did it take so long (after the initial discovery) for scientists to determine the correct value for the charge of the electron? How does this relate to sociology?

Question 32

Describe the Hawthorne effect.

Question 33

What is the Westermarck effect?

Question 34

How can one's social setting affect behavior? Give a personal example.

Question 35

What is the scientific method? Describe how it is used in sociology.

Question 36

What is the sociological perspective? Why is Durkheim considered one of the founder's of sociology?