SOCI 1101- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
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Importance of global perspective: where we live shapes our lives. 3) dysfunction may continue: many argue ineffective as macro-level; purpose at mid-level. Ignores larger social structures, effects of culture, factors such as class, gender, and race. Identify similarities in how social groups respond to social pressure: c. wright mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological _______ to study how society affects individuals. Intro to sociology: chapter 2 and chapter 3 notes. Chapter 2: sociological investigation: for(cid:373)s of (cid:862)truth(cid:863, belief or faith, expert testimony, simple agreement, science, 3 frameworks for sociological investigation, scientific sociology, systematic and empirical. Interpretive sociology: focuses on the meanings people attach to their social world, critical sociology, the study of society that focuses on the need for change, causation, cause and effect, types of variables. Inductive logic: reasoning that transforms specific observation into general theory: deductive logic: reasoning that transforms general theory into specific hypotheses suitable for testing.
