Flashcards
Sociology Test 1
Cards in this deck (44)
- 1degree to which a study can be repeated with same results.reliability
- 2Degree to which a study measures what its intended to.validity
- 3Relationship between 2 or more variablesCorrelation
- 4Are cause effect/correlation synonymous?no
- 5Existence of a 3rd variable that causes correlationSpurious correlation.
- 65 ways gender can affect researchandrocentricity, overgeneralizing, gender blindness, double standards, interference.
- 7All the people in a study.Population
- 83 steps to show cause/effectShow correlation, independent occurs before dependent, no evidence a 3rd variable has caused spurious
- 9Proportion of Populationsample
- 10research method for investigating cause/effect under highly controlled conditions.Experiment
- 11Relationship you think exists.hypothesis
- 12Open ended QNarrative
- 133 of 10 steps in sociological researchWhat is your topic, what method will you use, what are your conclusions
- 14A peoples entire way of life.Culture
- 15people that participate in a culture... defined areaSociety
- 16Only humans depend upon their culture rather than instincts to surviveTRooooooo
- 17Represents more than itselfSymbol
- 18Set of symbols that allow people to communicateLanguage
- 19Broad standards for behaviorValues
- 20Specific state that reflects realitybeliefs
- 21Specific rules for behaviorNorms
- 22Relies on technology and artifactsmaterial culture
- 23People perceive through the cultural lens of language.Sapir-whorf hypothesis
- 24Beliefs created from valuesTrue
- 25Values do not represent actual behaviortrue
- 26Reaction to normsSanctions
- 27Ideal CultureValues
- 28Real cultureactual behavior
- 29Knowledge we apply to the task of livingTechnology
- 30Who developed socio-cultural evolution?Lenski
- 31Cultural patterns that distinguish some pattern of social societySubculture
- 32People that reject/want to change subcultureCounterculture
- 33U.s educational program recognizing cultural diversity, promotes equality.Multiculturalism
- 34Standards used to judge a cultureCultural relativism
- 35Uses own culture to judge anotherEthnocentrism
- 36Uses another culture to judge own.Xenocentricity
- 37Using European standards to judge a cultureEurocentrism
- 38Emphasizing African cultural patternsAfrocentricity
- 39Close relationships among various elements of a cultural systemCultural Integration
- 40Cultural elements change at different rates which may disrupt a cultural systemCultural Lag
- 413 factors that cause cultural change.Invention, discovery, diffusion.
- 42Elements of culture found in all known society.Cultural universals.
- 43Stresses the link between culture and inequality, says that any cultural trait benefits some at expense of others.Social Conflict approach.
- 44sees culture as a complex strategy for meeting human needs.Structural functional approach.