Sociology develop as a discipline

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INTRO CONLEY 2015

Please review the attached documents and answer the following questions in our own words and give an example

  1. What is the cost and returns of going to college according to Conley?
  2. What is a social institution and how does it relate to identity?
  3. Who was August Comte and how did Sociology develop as a discipline?
  4. How did Karl Marx see History? What was Karl Marx’s view of society?
  5. What is the Division of labor according to Emile Durkheim? What made Durkheim’s work sociology and not economics?
  6. What did Durkheim conclude about suicide? What is anomie?
  7. What is Functional Theory? What is Conflict Theory?  Why does inequality exist according to functionalists?
  8. Discuss Symbolic Interactionism.
  9. What is the difference between Micro and macrosociology?
  10. Who was W E B Dubois and how did he study African Americans?

 

SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Using the  social structure reading please answer the following questions

 

  1. What is society? What is social interaction?

 

 

  1. What was Durkheim’s point central to sociological analysis? Explain

 

 

 

 

  1. What are social institutions? What needs do they meet for society? Explain according to functionalists.

 

 

 

  1. What do conflict theorists say about social institutions?

 

 

 

  1. What is Social Structure? Explain

 

 

 

  1. What holds society together? Explain

 

 

 

  1. Discuss Durkheim theory of mechanical and organic solidarity.

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What are the different types of societies? Describe and define.

 

(PLEASE WATCH VIDEOS FROM) Research Dr. Marci Littlefield,  Henrietta Lacks, the Tuskegee Experiment, and Ethical Data Collection: Crash Course Statistics #12 and The Tuskegee Syphilis Study – National History Day 2014

Social Research  Video Exercise. Pjease watch the videos and respond to the folowing questions.

What is one of the most important ethical considerations in Research explain?

  1. What is the IRB? What does it do?
  2. What is voluntariness?
  3. What do animal rights activists say about research on animals?
  4. How and why was Henrietta Lacks used for research? What did the scientists gain from the study?
  5. Why didn’t Henrietta lacks get profits from the research?
  6. What is informed consent and why is it important?
  7. What is the Nuremberg code? Why was it developed? What does is do?
  8. In the factional internet example on the video why was nit unethical?
  9. Why does Facebook and google offer their services for free? What are they doing with our data?
  10. Do you think it is ethical for sites to use our data? explain

 

After watching the video on the  Tuskegee experiment please respond to the following

  1. What happened in the Tuskegee Syphilis study?
  2. What was being tested? What were the men told about the experiment they were participating in in Georgia?
  3. Why were the men denied treatment in this study?
  4. Why was this study unethical?
  5. Explain how the men’s rights were violated in this study.

 

CULTURE AND MEDIA CONLEY

Culture  Chapter Questions. Read the Chapter on Culture and respond to the following questions.

1.What are the components of culture? name and define

  1. What is the difference between ethnocentrism and cultural relativity?
  2. What is a norm? What is an informal norm? How are norms enforced?
  3. What are the differences between subcultures and countercultures? Define and give examples.
  4. Why are symbols an important aspect of culture? Discuss and describe.
  5. How is the media part of culture?
  6. What is the functionalist, conflict and interactionist perspective of culture?
  7. What do you think about the videos on multiple husbands? How is this an example of culture and how can this be used as an example to demonstrate ethnocentrism? Explain.  (5pts)

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