Exam 2: Thinking About and Researching the Social World

What are the differences between class consciousness and false consciousness? Do capitalists have class consciousness?

A sociologist who spends an extensive amount of time for several years observing an immigrant community to understand their daily activities would be using which research method?

Émile Durkheim was concerned with macro-level phenomena, which he referred to as ______.

Quantitative research does not require statistical methods for collecting and reporting data.

Identify the primary difference between qualitative and quantitative research. List one type of each research method and explain how it is collected.

John, a sociologist, decides to conduct a research study examining violence in television shows for the past five years. This is an example of ______.

______ refers to the degree to which a given question produces the same results time after time.

Mary is a researcher who is conducting research on the relationship between college grades and the amount of time spent studying. She is going to conduct open-ended interviews. This is an example of a ______ research method.

Under the perspective of structural-functionalism, domestic violence is an example of ______.

While the proletariat works for pay, the ______ works for no pay.

The early sociologist who is best known for his studies pertaining to race (specifically the divisions that existed between blacks and whites) is ______.

Max Weber discussed the concept of the ideal type, which is meant to be the most accurate depiction of social reality.

Which one of the following is a benefit to unstructured interviews?

Émile Durkheim focused on the patterns of consumption and how the elite display their wealth.

The sociologist who studied a Chicago housing project and its gangs in thorough detail was ______.

Given a chance to study the homeless population of Chicago, symbolic interactionists may primarily focus on ______.

______ is a term that refers to the awareness a proletariat has regarding their position in a capitalist economy.

The famous prison study by Dr. Philip Zimbardo raised ethical issues similar to the Milgram experiments related to psychological harm.

An ethnomethodologist argues that structures such as courtrooms and hospitals ______.