SOCIOL 1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intersectionality, Parental Leave, Headscarf

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This study guide is designed to help organize your studying for the midterm exam. All test questions will be pulled from this content, but not all of this content will be on the test. Benefits: looking at assumptions carefully, understand opportunities and constraints (master statuses), and avoid ethnocentrism (belief that one culture is superior over another) Problems: society is always changing; sociologists are influenced by their own context/culture. It can be applied globally to different cultures and different social groups. Taking info from small groups (b/c you can"t study a whole entire population) applying to the whole population. You get a lot of deep info than just surface level su(cid:260)(cid:290)e(cid:297)s. qrndqthe(cid:297)"(cid:260)eqflexible (you can change the questions as you ask them). Positive: can easily collect data from a lot of people. How the researchers conducts the research (like his/her methods) -- you might be a bit invasive. Also, whether the researcher is using his own influence while conducting research (bias).