Sociology Test 1

Pregunta	Respuesta
degree to which a study can be repeated with same results.	reliability
Degree to which a study measures what its intended to.	validity
Relationship between 2 or more variables	Correlation
Are cause effect/correlation synonymous?	no
Existence of a 3rd variable that causes correlation	Spurious correlation.
5 ways gender can affect research	androcentricity, overgeneralizing, gender blindness, double standards, interference.
All the people in a study.	Population
3 steps to show cause/effect	Show correlation, independent occurs before dependent, no evidence a 3rd variable has caused spurious
Proportion of Population	sample
research method for investigating cause/effect under highly controlled conditions.	Experiment
Relationship you think exists.	hypothesis
Open ended Q	Narrative
3 of 10 steps in sociological research	What is your topic, what method will you use, what are your conclusions
A peoples entire way of life.	Culture
people that participate in a culture... defined area	Society
Only humans depend upon their culture rather than instincts to survive	TRooooooo
Represents more than itself	Symbol
Set of symbols that allow people to communicate	Language
Broad standards for behavior	Values
Specific state that reflects reality	beliefs
Specific rules for behavior	Norms
Relies on technology and artifacts	material culture
People perceive through the cultural lens of language.	Sapir-whorf hypothesis
Beliefs created from values	True
Values do not represent actual behavior	true
Reaction to norms	Sanctions
Ideal Culture	Values
Real culture	actual behavior
Knowledge we apply to the task of living	Technology
Who developed socio-cultural evolution?	Lenski
Cultural patterns that distinguish some pattern of social society	Subculture
People that reject/want to change subculture	Counterculture
U.s educational program recognizing cultural diversity, promotes equality.	Multiculturalism
Standards used to judge a culture	Cultural relativism
Uses own culture to judge another	Ethnocentrism
Uses another culture to judge own.	Xenocentricity
Using European standards to judge a culture	Eurocentrism
Emphasizing African cultural patterns	Afrocentricity
Close relationships among various elements of a cultural system	Cultural Integration
Cultural elements change at different rates which may disrupt a cultural system	Cultural Lag
3 factors that cause cultural change.	Invention, discovery, diffusion.
Elements of culture found in all known society.	Cultural universals.
Stresses the link between culture and inequality, says that any cultural trait benefits some at expense of others.	Social Conflict approach.
sees culture as a complex strategy for meeting human needs.	Structural functional approach.

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