Exam #1 – “Do You Remember?” Study questions - Ch. 1,2,3 & 4
Ch. 1 The Sociological Perspective
 Who is the father of Sociology?
 Who wanted you to see “The general in the particular”?
 Who wanted you to see how personal problems become public issues?
 What are the three main Sociological theories?
 Which two theories are macro focused?
 Which one looks at society as an integrated system?
 Which one looks at how we interpret the meanings of words and symbols?
Ch. #2 Sociological Investigation
 What is an hypothesis
 What do we want when measuring a variable?
 What is a spurious correlation?
 What three things are needed to say one thing caused another?
 What two important things do we need in research?
 What is the difference between a sample and a population?
 What would be a good method to study:
 Student attitudes toward NSCC?
 A successful presidential candidate?
 Which of two teaching methods works best?
 What is the main thing drug experiments need to control for?
 What is the difference between:
 Open and closed questions?
 Control and experimental groups?
 Hawthorne effect and placebo effect?
Ch. #3 Culture
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What happens when you visit another culture?
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What you believe is what type of culture?
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How does language effect out perception of the world?
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How does culture control us?
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What will cause American culture to change?
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What causes parts of a culture to change at different rates?
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What is the difference between a subculture and a counter culture?
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What will I demonstrating if I believe another culture is wrong simply
because their beliefs are different than mine?
Ch. #4 Society
 What four major things cause social change?
 What stages do the Lenski’s cite as examples of technological change causing
social change?
 Who started the conflict perspective?
 What is false consciousness?
 What is Class consciousness?
 What is alienation?
 How did these factors help create the current union management
relationships we have today?
 Who focused on rational thought changing society?
 How did the thinking of preindustrial and postindustrial societies differ?
 Who focused on social bonds changing society?
 How did the social bonds of preindustrial and postindustrial societies differ?