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Introduction to Sociology, Culture
and Research Review
1.
Define Sociology.
2.
What is an internationalist?
3.
Describe conflict theory.
4.
Describe Functionalism.
5.
What is socialization?
6.
List and describe the agents of socialization.
7.
What impact did Auguste Comte have on Sociology?
8.
Who is Harriet Martineau?
9.
Describe what Herbert Spencer do for sociology?
10. What did Karl Marx do that impacted sociology?
11. Who is Emile Durkheim?
12. Define Functionalist perspective. What are the assumptions with this theory?
13. What is conflict perspective? Who created it and what are the assumptions
made by this theory?
14. What is the interactionist perspective? Who created it? What are the main
assumptions made by their perspective?
15. Define Culture.
16. What are material and non-material culture examples?
17. Explain the difference between Society and culture.
18. Explain what Symbols are to the field of sociology.
19. Define language and explain its impact on the field of sociology.
20. What are values and how does it impact sociology.
21. What are norms?
22. Explain what folkways, mores and laws are and what role they have in
society.
23. Define and explain the three ways of how culture changes?
24. What are social categories? What are factors that promote diversity in
culture?
25. What is the difference between folk culture and pop culture?
26. Define culture shock.
27. Define Subculture and counterculture.
28. Why do sociologists do research?
29. What are the two types of research that sociologists do?
30. For a survey explain the four types of questions that can be presented.
31. What is secondary analysis?
32. What is field research?
33. What is Causation and describe how a sociologist views it?
34. What is a variable? What are the different types of variables?
35. What are correlations? What are the two types of correlations?
36.
List out the steps to an experiment
37. What does research have to be ethical?