Textbook

Question 1

Purposive Sampling

Answer 1

Selectively choosing who participates – bias

Question 2

Snowball Sampling

Answer 2

Interviewed person suggests names of similar people to participate

Question 3

Participant observation

Answer 3

Collecting systematic observations while participating in
activities of the group being studied

Question 4

Reactivity

Answer 4

Tendency for observed people to conceal/exaggerate actions to impress researcher

Question 5

Full Participation

Answer 5

Participate fully, conceal researcher identity

Question 6

Pure Observation

Answer 6

Members know researcher’s status and goals

Question 7

Middle Ground (Most Common)

Answer 7

Between full participation and pure observation

Question 8

Authenticity

Answer 8

Do not deceive participants

Question 9

Digital sociology

Answer 9

Studying social life through digital traces and big data

Question 10

Digital traces

Answer 10

Info left behind from tech use

Question 11

Big data

Answer 11

Sum of all digital traces

Question 12

Nonreactive research

Answer 12

Doesn’t influence subjects

Question 13

Digital sociology

Answer 13

Studying social life through digital traces and big data;

Question 14

Tracking cookies

Answer 14

follow you across websites to profile you

Question 15

Informed consent

Answer 15

Voluntary participation based on full understanding of risks

Question 16

Emile Durkheim

Answer 16

Suicide is heavily influenced by social forces and is not only a psychological disorder (Functionalism)

Question 17

Social Solidarity

Answer 17

Degree to which group members share beliefs and values and intensity and frequency of their interactions

Question 18

Sociological Imagination

Answer 18

Connection between personal experiences and social structures

Question 19

Social Constructionism

Answer 19

Things that seem “natural” are actually sustained by social processes that vary historically/culturally

Question 20

Selective Observation

Answer 20

Unconsciously ignore evidence that challenges firmly held beliefs and only pay attention to evidence that agrees with preestablished beliefs

Question 21

Hidden Curriculum

Answer 21

Unwritten, unofficial, unintended norms, values and perspectives students learn in schools

Question 22

Cohort

Answer 22

Group of people who share specific characteristics such as age

Question 23

Thomas Theorem

Answer 23

Concept that situation we define as real, become real in their consequences

Question 24

Self-fulfilling Prophecy

Answer 24

Expectation that helps bring out what it predicts

Question 25

Cyber-bullying

Answer 25

Use of electronic communication technology to threaten, harass, embarrass or socially exclude others

Question 26

Instrumental Communication

Answer 26

Sending messages that are a means to an end

Question 27

Expressive Communication

Answer 27

Sending messages that are ends in themselves

Question 28

Technological Determinism

Answer 28

Adaptation of technologies leads to inevitable and sometimes undesirable effects

Question 29

Emotion Management

Answer 29

Expectations of what they should feel, how much they should, how long, and who they share the feelings with

Question 30

Emotion Labour

Answer 30

Emotion management that many people do as part of their job that they are paid for

Question 31

Dramaturgical Analysis

Answer 31

People present themselves to appear in the best possible light

Question 32

Role Distancing

Answer 32

Giving impression of just going through the motions but lacking serious commitment to the role

Question 33

Ethnomethodology

Answer 33

Study of how people make sense of what others do by adhering to pre-existing norms

Question 34

Breaching Experiments

Answer 34

Intentionally violates a social norm to observe people's reactions and expose the unwritten rules that govern everyday life

Question 35

Social Psychology

Answer 35

Field between sociology and psychology

Question 36

Norms of Solidarity

Answer 36

Shared ideas about how to behave towards each other to maintain relationship developed between friends, lovers, spouses, teammates

Question 37

Contact Tracing

Answer 37

Identify who you were in contact with, when contact was made and where contact occurred

Question 38

Dyad/Triad

Answer 38

Social relationship between two/three social units

Question 39

Social Groups

Answer 39

One or more networks of people who identify with one another, interact regularly and adhere to defined norms, roles and statuses (ex., family, sports team)

Question 40

Mead's "I"

Answer 40

Subjective and impulsive aspect of self, present since birth

Question 41

Mead's "Me"

Answer 41

Objective component of self that emerges as people communicate symbolically and learn to take the role of the other

Question 42

Altruistic Suicide

Answer 42

Suicide in high solidarity settings

Question 43

Egotistic/Anomic Suicide

Answer 43

Suicide in low solidarity settings

Question 44

Spuriousness

Answer 44

relationship between independent variable and dependant variable is inauthentic when control variable causes change in both independent and dependant variable simultaneously