SOCI 1001H Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Longitudinal Study, Verstehen, George Ritzer
28 Jun 2018
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Midterm Review
-Worth 30% of grade
-7pm – 8:15pm
-minimum of 2 pencils and on eraser
70 questions
20 true and false
50 multiple choice
half of the questions will be taken from lecture, half from the textbook
Main Things to Focus on:
1. general introduction
explaining what sociology is – social patterns and processes
macro level and micro level
techniques and patterns of social life
sociological perspective
pages 1-14 of textbook
sociological perspective
seeing the general in the particular and seeing the strange in the familiar
2. what is sociology
less a body of concrete knowledge and more a way of knowing
different ways of knowing
sociology is one way of knowing – rooted in science
sociological perspective is about understanding that we are all social beings that don’t
live in isolation and live in a social context – context of events or life
social patterns that shape lives and events
race, social class, age, social integration – use these to understand what something is
founding fathers – Emile Durkheim's study on suicide – sociological perspective on
personal act but doing it sociologically
sociological imagination
blackboard reading called the promise – C Wright Mills
quality of mind – connecting personal troubles and public issues
social structure and social change – people will act on structures and try to change them
invitation to sociology
what the main point he is establishing is – first wisdom of sociology or underlying
assumption of sociology
3. sociological investigation/doing sociology
frameworks
how we know things sociologically
scientific approach – at the root of sociological investigation – we try to use the scientific
approach to investigate social life
logical and empirical in our investigations
6 premises of science (assumptions) – scientific thinking in sociology (3 principles of
causality)
facing obstacles – 5 obstacles when we try to apply the scientific model
paradigms – general way of seeing the world (models or schemes of how we see the
world) – guide the questions we ask and how we answer them
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Document Summary
Minimum of 2 pencils and on eraser. 50 multiple choice half of the questions will be taken from lecture, half from the textbook. Main things to focus on: general introduction explaining what sociology is social patterns and processes. Seeing the strange in the familiar: social research methods. Notion of variables what variables are, what they are made of, what you use them for, and how you use them. Research design of projects how we carry it out, sampling and consideration of develop a project in a time frame change over time longitudinal study vs cross-sectional study. Methodology different methodologies that we have in sociology, 4 factors involved in how we choose the method we use. Research methods unobtrusive, field research, survey research, surveys. Analysis what did you learn from this. Not going to ask about youth marginalization and street involvement, controversy and debate (stereotypes)
