Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
37 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Sociologists study people in groups using the ____ ____.
|
Scientific method
|
|
|
Smallest group of society
|
Dyad- 2 people
|
|
|
Primary unit the researcher is studying
|
Level of analysis
|
|
|
Lowest level of anaysis
|
Individual
|
|
|
Levels of anaylsis
|
Individual, Dyad, Gamily, State, Country
|
|
|
Emily Durkheim
(1858-1917) |
Theorized that more individualistic (egoistic) societies would have more suicides then last egoistic ones. Protestantism more individualistic than Catholics
|
|
|
Why is theory at the top of the wheel of science?
|
Theories are the central to all science including social science
|
|
|
Sociologists skee to explain...
|
WHY
|
|
|
Draw and label the level of analysis pyramid
|
-->
|
|
|
Draw and label the wheel of science
|
-->
|
|
|
Theories
|
Explanations of particular social phenomena. Made up of a series of propositions
|
|
|
Propositions
|
Gives the relationship between 2 factors or characteristics that vary from case to case of whatever we are studying
|
|
|
The most specific proposition in all cases becomes ______.
|
Hypothesis
|
|
|
Theories MUST....
|
Generate a testable hypothesis that can be supported or falsified with data
|
|
|
If a theory cannot generate a testable hypothesis it is a ___________.
|
Belief
|
|
|
If you cannot falsify a theory, it is not a _____________.
|
A true theory
|
|
|
Social Psychological Theories are about...
|
Individuals and small groups
|
|
|
What 2 things must all theories have to be a theory?
|
1) Generate a testable hypothesis
2) Theories at different levels of analysis are compatible with eachother |
|
|
Experimental Method
|
With experiments you randomly assign cases to different groups, the experimental and control groups.
|
|
|
It is impossible to do an experiment with______groups of people.
|
Large
|
|
|
Microsociological Research
|
Research that has individuals and small groups as the units of analysis
|
|
|
Field Research
|
(Ethnographic Research)
Large groups, when a researcher visits the group under study and physically observes what goes on in it. |
|
|
Survey Research
|
When a researcher surveys a group to find answers to a variety of questions then analyzes.
|
|
|
Analysis of existing data
|
From government records, or other existing records, to study large groups of people.
|
|
|
Conclusions are there to...
|
Determine whether the data supports or doesnt the hypothesis
|
|
|
Theories do 1 of 3 things
|
1) Support
2) Falsifie 3) Neither |
|
|
New hypothesis will ______be generated
|
ALWAYS
|
|
|
Theories MUST....
|
Generate a testable hypothesis that can be supported or falsified with data
|
|
|
If a theory cannot generate a testable hypothesis it is a ___________.
|
Belief
|
|
|
If you cannot falsify a theory, it is not a _____________.
|
A true theory
|
|
|
Social Psychological Theories are about...
|
Individuals and small groups
|
|
|
What 2 things must all theories have to be a theory?
|
1) Generate a testable hypothesis
2) Theories at different levels of analysis are compatible with eachother |
|
|
Experimental Method
|
With experiments you randomly assign cases to different groups, the experimental and control groups.
|
|
|
It is impossible to do an experiment with______groups of people.
|
Large
|
|
|
Microsociological Research
|
Research that has individuals and small groups as the units of analysis
|
|
|
Field Research
|
(Ethnographic Research)
Large groups, when a researcher visits the group under study and physically observes what goes on in it. |
|
|
Survey Research
|
When a researcher surveys a group to find answers to a variety of questions then analyzes.
|
