SOC 100 Final: Final Exam Study Guide

• School: U of M
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 100
• Professor: Terence James Mc Ginn

Document Summary

Study guide: soc 100, fall 14: unit 3: social issues. Original schools: conflict, functionalism, and symbolic interaction. Babbie: studied welfare rates and claimed that most people don"t stay stuck in welfare and poverty. The number of children killed in us doubled every year . The importance of social research: positivism vs. vershtehen. Vershtehen: subjective: understanding the experience of the subjects. High epistemology: science has a lot to offer and can teach us a lot. Low epistemology: our scientific framework is limiting: key events in history of sociological research. 1850: martineau descriptive empirically grounded, narratively vivid description of the principles of governing social life. 1975: combination and secondary analyses: quantitative v. qualitative (with an example of each survey v. participant-observer) Surveys: depends on right people, right questions, can describe/explain, what they do well and what they do poorly, surveys have steps. Introduce something new into an environment to see if things/results change.