SOCL 2001 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Social Class, Trust Law, Sociology
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Most likely to occur if personalities are incompatible: macro: looking at divorce rates cross-culturally. The way in which society is integrated: theres two types, mechanical: all people live in the same way and share similar responsibilities, organic: people have highly differentiated tasks, responsibilities, and behaviors. We are dependent b/c of our skills/unique status: max weber (dr. from univ of heidelberg germany, best known books: the protestant ethics and the spirit of capitalism, the. Sociology of hinduism and buddhism, theory of social and economic. Is sociology a science: components of scientific theory, concepts and variables- a concept is an abstract system of meaning that enables us to perceive a phenomenon in a particular way. Independent: variable is the presume to cause an effect: cause: dependent: variable that is presumed to be affected by the independent variable: effect. Inexpensive: disadvantage, out-dated/missing data, **content analysis is an important secondary analysis. Important concept: population: group of people to be studied.
