SOC 2000 EXAM #2 STUDY GUIDE FOR READINGS
Chapter 2
1. four factors that unify scientific endeavors
2. what Robert Park thought sociologists should do
3. what William Ogburn thought sociologists should do
4. pilot study
5. measures of central tendency
6. correlation coefficients
7. mean
8. mode
9. median
10. standard deviation
11. degree of dispersal
12. Andreas Wimmer's research findings
13. science
14. empirical investigation
Chapter 6
1. reason why larger groups tend to be more exclusive
2. ideal type
3. Meyer and Rowan's argument
4. Foucault: the architecture of an organization
5. surveillance
6. two types of surveillance
7. timetables
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8. Granovetter's role of weak ties
9. women's job market networks
10. McDonaldization of society
11. personal taste and the influence of social networks on musical choices
12. obesity as "contagious"
13. iron law of oligarchy
14. oligarchy
15. information and communication technology
16. effects of telecommuting
17. network enterprise
18. enterprise web
19. advantages of networked organizations
Chapter 7
1. Kai Erikson's conclusion in Wayward Pilgrims
2. most common victims of murder and other violent crimes
3. chivalry thesis
4. reason why women may receive harsher treatment than men in the criminal justice system
5. gender contract
6. women's groups' efforts to change legal and public thinking about rape
7. cybercrime
8. the country that locks up more people per capita than any other country
9. effects of prison on offenders
10. role of police as "knowledge workers"
11. community policing
12. shaming
13. stigmatizing shaming
14. reintegrative shaming