SOC 101
Test 1 Study Guide
Fill in the blanks as it refers to the Scientific Method.
Reasoning
Pass
Fail
Reject
What are the 4 different types of reasoning?
What is the difference between theory and hypothesis?
Who is Edward O. Eisen?
Describe religion.
Fill in the chart:
Science
Truth From:
Same for all:
Done by:
Truth is:
Proof:
Deals with:
What is the Germ Theory of Medicine?
Why is Religion a big T truth?
What does false dichotomy mean?
Who are the “Shakers”? What were their beliefs?
Define Pseudoscience.
What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative?
What does morph mean?
What is the biocultural model?
Define nature vs. nurture.
What is epigenetics?
Who is C. Wright Mills? What does he believe?
Pseudoscience
Religion
Define sociological imagination.
Sociological imagination says we live our lives at the ____________________ of history and __________________.
Define common sense.
What is theory?
Who is Emile Durkheim?
What were his findings? What was his main conclusion to his studies?
Who is Comte? What did he focus on?
How did the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Industrial Revolution play into sociological studies?
Who is Max Weber?
Who is Karl Marx? What era is he most associated with?
Marx is associated with the Big Three. Who were the other two?
What are the haves and the have nots?
Karl Marx said, “From each according to ability; to each according to need”. What does that mean?
Who is W.E.B DuBois? What is his significance?
Define double consciousness. Give an example.
Who is George Washington Carver? What is his significance? What were his conclusions from his studies?
What is the difference between macrosociology and microsociology?
What is the difference between cultural and social capital?
What is a paradigm?
What are the 3 Major Paradigms of Sociology? Define each in detail. Given the example of the Olympics what is
associated with each paradigm?
What is the difference between a manifest and a latent function?
What is the Feminist Theory?
What is the Marxist Theory?
What is the Queer Theory?
What is globalization?
What is an operational definition?
What is a hypothesis?
What is the difference between an independent variable and a dependent variable?
What does casual logic mean?
What does correlation mean?
What is the difference between validity and reliability?
When you summarize all your data you are creating a ____________________
What is an example of a control variable?
Define research design.
What are some examples of research? Describe each.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
What is the difference between secondary analysis and content analysis?
There are seven things to consider with the Code of Ethics. What are they?
Define culture.
How are culture and society different?
What are cultural universals?
What is ethnocentrism?
Define cultural relativism.
Give an example of cultural relativism.
Who is E.O. Wilson and what are his contributions?
What are the building blocks of culture?
What is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
Define symbols. Give an example.
What are norms?
What’s the difference between formal and informal norms?
What’s the difference between mores and folkways?
What are sanctions?
Define the following:
Informal negative sanctionFormal positive sanctionInformal positive sanctionFormal negative sanction-
What are values?