SOC 200 Test 1 (Latest 2023 / 2024)
Complete 100 + Questions and Answers Included
1. Coleman report spurious finding: Yes, there is a relationship between
schoolresources and test scores Students in schools that spend less, do worse
But mostly a spurious relationship:
Other factors related to poverty (family troubles, parental involvement, statusaspirations) And remember recent research... poverty causes poor performance, lower IQ Bottom line... $ spent not highly related to school performance
2. What is globalization?: an increased flow of goods, money, ideas and
peopleacross national borders
3. What is sociology?: the study of societies and the social worlds that
individualsinhabit within them
- What is the soc imagination, who coined the term, and what kind of
motorized vehicle did he like? :): The capacity to think systematically about howsocial context impacts individual lives; Capacity to think systematically about how many things we experience as personal problems .The ability to see the interplay between society and self, history and biography; tounderstand the world around us, and to begin to think in a deep way about how to improve it, is to recognize the extent to which our individual lives are strongly shaped by where, when, and to whom we were born and the range of experienceswe have as a child, an adolescent, and later as an adult. 1 / 4
- Wright
Mills motorcycle
5. What is a stereotype?: Stereotypes are beliefs about members of a group
that are usually false, or at least exaggerated, but are the basis of assumptions madeabout individual members of a group.
6. What is discrimination?: Discrimination refers to any behavior, practice,
orpolicy that harms, excludes, or disadvantages individuals on the basis of their group membership.
7. How are stereotypes and discrimination related?: Many people
generalizeand subsequently stereotype because of experiences they've had with SOME members of a particular group.
- What do we mean when we say "social context matters?" What is
"socialcontext?": We refer to the influence of society on individuals as the social context.
at the core of the sociological imagination is the idea that individual lives unfold in contexts; if we could know something about the contexts each person will grow up in we would be able to make much better educated guesses about their prospects.
9. Sharkey research on violent neighborhoods: Pat Sharkey discovered a
linkbetween neighborhood violence and children's school performance. He discoveredthat within the week following a homicide in their neighborhood, children in Chicagoscored significantly lower on reading and vocabulary tests than they had in the week prior to the homicide. Amazingly, this drop occurred regardless of whether or not the children had actually witnessed or heard about the violence directly. 2 / 4
Among other things, Sharkey's research teaches us how violence can be absorbed by and transmitted through neighborhood contexts- and how children, who are perhaps the most vulnerable to such exposure, experience their effects at school as well as home.Research suggests we need to think about the consequences of neighborhood violence on innocent children.
10. What is Social Interaction?: Refers to the way people act together,
includinghow they modify and alter their behavior in response to the presence of others.Social interaction is governed by a set of norms, which are the basic rules of societythat help us know what is and what is not appropriate to do in any situation.
- What is Social Structure? Describe the two components of social struc-
ture (hierarchies and institutions): The flip side of social interaction- refers to the external forces, most notably in social hierarchies and institutions of society.A social hierarchy is a set of important social relationships that provide individuals and groups with different kinds of status, in which some individuals and groups areelevated above others.The institutions of society- those longstanding and important practices (like mar-riage, family , education and economic markets) as well as the organizations that regulate those practices (such as the government, the military, schools andreligion) provide the framework for our daily lives.
What is the role the Industrial Revolution and urbanization in the devel- opment of sociology?: these cities were rife with high levels of poverty because the factories paid poorly cities were dirty and were a breeding ground for disease, infant mortality and early death crime and violence were also more common than in rural areas they were places where people could organize themselves to protest unpleasantconditions of life- creating a new type of political challenge, with unions forming and a rise in social movements. 3 / 4
in the face of these challenges and conditions, sociology found its place in begin-ning to seek to understand the sources of these emerging problems.
- Who are sociology's academic siblings? (In lecture I called them
ourcousins... let's just call them relatives): political science
psychology economics anthropolog y
13. Why is sociology harder to define than these other disciplines?: unlike
other social scientists, sociologists don't define ourselves according to a specificinstitution of area of life.Sociology cannot be pigeonholed, it can move and include into all areas of othersocial sciences.
14. Is Canadian Hockey a meritocracy?: Yes
meritocracy: the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their
ability;evaluated based on individual merit
15. Age matters, even in schools... what solution does Gladwell suggest?: -
Could set up two or even three hockey leagues divided up by month of birth.Letthe players develop on different tracks and then pick all-star teams.
Schools could do the same thing: elementary and middle schools could put the
january through april-born students in one class, the may through august in another class, and those born in september through december in a third class. they could let students learn with and compete against other students of the same maturity level.
- Chap 1 from Berger is mostly about what sociology is NOT. What is
onthis list?: - "I want to work with people"
- social work
- soc is not a "practice"; rather, it is an attempt to understand
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