Exam 2: Examining the Social World: How Do We Know

Richard is researching the way that religious differences have led to conflicts among Iraqi Muslims. His research focuses on:

Structural-functional perspective states:

Mike wants to study why men choose to go into nursing careers. He theorizes that these men decided that the benefits of nursing (good pay and numerous career options) outweigh the costs (working long hours and dealing with bodily fluids). Which theoretical perspective is Mike using?

How did Max Weber explain the emergence of the "spirit of capitalism"?

Explain how a theory differs from a hypothesis and discuss how the two are related. Provide an example.

How did Ralf Dahrendorf explain why Karl Marx's predictions never came true?

Sara wants to study political protests in Russia by traveling to Moscow and joining one of the student protest groups. She would be using:

Henri Saint-Simon officially coined the term sociology in 1838.

Determining exactly how to measure concepts is known as:

You have been asked to conduct a study titled "The Effect of Watching Television on the Grades of First-Year College Students." What theoretical perspective will you use to guide your study and why? Explain at least two hypotheses you have about the effect of TV on grades. Describe the method you will use to conduct your study and explain why that method is most appropriate.

Concepts or ideas that vary in frequency or occurrence across people, times, or places are known as:

A sample that accurately reflects the group being studied is a:

In the late 1960s, Laud Humphries conducted a study called "The Tearoom Trade." Humphries posed as a "watch queen" (a man who guards the doors of restrooms in public parks so that men can have sex with other men inside). Humphries wrote down the license plate numbers of the men who had sex with other men, then looked up their addresses, disguised his appearance, and went to their homes to interview them a year later. Humphries discovered that, contrary to popular opinion, many of the men were actually married to women and living otherwise quiet, middle-class lives. Today, this study is considered unethical. In light of what you learned about research ethics in Chapter 2 of the text, what ethical principles does this study violate? Do you personally feel the benefits of the study (it destroyed many stereotypes) outweighed the risks?

Statements regarding why and how facts relate to each other and the connection between those facts are known as:

Micro-level analysis considers the larger social context-national and global-within which a number of single social units resides.

Tom is studying how changes in income affect the frequency of eating out. In this example, "changes in income" is the ________________ variable and "frequency of eating out" is the _________________ variable.

Explain the statement, "Every research study should be replicable." Provide an example of what a researcher would do to replicate a study.

Theories are statements of how two or more facts relate to each other.

Prior to the 19th century, the primary influence on the way people viewed the world was based on:

According to the text, symbolic interaction theory is a macro-level theory.