STUDY GUIDE SOCIOLOGY 1, SECTION 4 FALL 2000 DR. BRENT'S SECTION TEST ONE Expect questions on the following topics to appear on the test. Macro vs micro sociology Mores and types of mores Quantitative vs qualitative research Basic vs applied research Confirmatory vs Exploratory research Characteristics of a bureaucracy and which sociologist studied bureaucracies? Statuses, including ascribed and achieved, manifest and latent How different countries are addressing the population explosion How do we describe a population structure? What factors go into the population equation? And what factors influence each of them? Where is population growth fastest in the world today? What are the different theories of population growth and what do they say? What are the theories of crowd behavior? What are the theories of social movements? What are the stages social movements experience? What are the types of social movements? What is a cultural universal and what does it mean? What is a subculture? The dominant culture? Pop culture? A counterculture? What is a social structure and what are some of the major types of social structures? What are the various types of societies and the major revolutions that have transformed societies? Who are the founding fathers of sociology and what is each famous for? What is a social network? What is a strong tie? A weak tie? What are the theories of social interaction and what do they each emphasize? What sociologists are associated with each of the major theories? What are some of the basic processes that characterize groups and what do we know about each of those? What are some of the common dysfunctions of bureaucracies? What are roles and statuses and what are the kinds of roles and statuses we often have and the problems sometimes associated with them? What is sociology? What are the differences between the major theoretical perspectives in sociology, including structural-functional, conflict, and interactionist? What makes knowledge scientific? How do we judge measures? What kinds of studies are commonly found in sociological research, and what are their differences? What are the issues sociologists face regarding the study of human subjects? How are developed and developing countries different? What are the standards for the ethical treatment of human subjects? What is culture? Society? What are the kinds of culture?