SOCL 2001 : Sociology Test 2
Document Summary
Functionalist: talcott parsons, kingley davis and wilbert moore. Social classes emerge because an unequal distribution of rewards is essential in complex societies. Interactionist: essential to understanding the behaviors of the status groups that form within a given class. Conflict: explains stratification primarily in economic terms, but does not explain the prestige that occurs within social classes. Based on systematic counting and statistical analysis of as many cases as possible. Focus on group interviews or case study interviews generate many facts about a small number of cases. An experimental situation in which the researcher manipulates an independent variable in order to observe and measure changes in a dependent variable. An experimental situation in which the researcher observes and studies subjects in their natural setting. A variable that the research believes causes a change in another variable. The variable that a hypothesis seeks to explain. A survey administered to a selection of respondents drawn from a specific population.
