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Sociology 101
Exam 1 Review Guide
Spring 2013
Terminology and Key Points
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Make sure that you are familiar with each of these terms or
concepts
Introduction (McIntyre Ch. 2)
Discipline of sociology/sociological
perspective
Sociological imagination
Trouble vs. issue
Individualism
Social institutions
Durkheim’s sociological understanding of
suicide
Key points of Mills article
Theory (McIntyre Ch. 3)
Functionalism
Conflict
Symbolic Interactionism
Macro theory vs. micro theory
Appling theories to
Prison Town, USA
Key points of Colomy article
Methods (McIntyre Ch. 5 & 6)
Quantitative vs. qualitative research
Constructs
Concepts
Variable: independent and dependent
Positive and negative relationships
Hypothesis
Operational definitions
Methods: survey, field research, unobtrusive
research, experiment
Hawthorne effect
Guidelines/rules for survey questions and
true experiments
Triangulation
Ethics of social research
Mean, median, and mode
Key points of Adler article
Culture (McIntyre Ch. 7)
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- Spring '13
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- Sociology, Appling, McIntyre Ch.
