Sociology. Some Questions and Answers
1. What are the roles of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer in establishing sociology?
2. Give a definition and name positive and negative sides of the next method: survey.
3. What is the gender socialization? What influences this process?
1. What is the difference between ideas of Karl Marx and Max Weber?
2. Give a definition and name positive and negative sides of the next method: field work.
3. Explain Freud’s theory of socialization?
1. Characterize main modern western sociological theories.
2. Give a definition and name positive and negative sides of the next method: experiment.
3. Give the definition of social group. Give the definition of social group. Name the types of social groups and explain their peculiarities.
1. What are the types of solidarity according to Emile Durkheim? Give a definition of them.
2. What sort of questions do sociologists address?
3. Characterize age stages of human life.
1. What are the basic concepts of structural - functionalism, the conflict approach and symbolic interactionism?
2. What is the scientific method and how can it be applied to the study of sociology?
3. What are some of the challenges and ethical issues in the study of sociology?
1.What has sociology contributed to our understanding of the family?
2. What is deviance?
3. What do ethics of the research include?
1. What is the relationship among culture subculture and counterculture?
Counterculture is against the current culture. example : punk rock (which is (for most punks) anti-capitalism, anti-religion and anarchistic)
A subculture is a set of people with a set of behaviors and beliefs, which could be distinct or hidden, that differentiate them from the larger culture to which they belong. Of course, the traditional definition of subculture would indicate that there are more specific cultures that exist within larger and more broadly defined cultures. However, I believe this definition is redundant when one considers how
2. Give a definition and name positive and negative sides of the next method: survey.
3. What is the gender socialization? What influences this process?
1. What is the difference between ideas of Karl Marx and Max Weber?
2. Give a definition and name positive and negative sides of the next method: field work.
3. Explain Freud’s theory of socialization?
1. Characterize main modern western sociological theories.
2. Give a definition and name positive and negative sides of the next method: experiment.
3. Give the definition of social group. Give the definition of social group. Name the types of social groups and explain their peculiarities.
1. What are the types of solidarity according to Emile Durkheim? Give a definition of them.
2. What sort of questions do sociologists address?
3. Characterize age stages of human life.
1. What are the basic concepts of structural - functionalism, the conflict approach and symbolic interactionism?
2. What is the scientific method and how can it be applied to the study of sociology?
3. What are some of the challenges and ethical issues in the study of sociology?
1.What has sociology contributed to our understanding of the family?
2. What is deviance?
3. What do ethics of the research include?
1. What is the relationship among culture subculture and counterculture?
Counterculture is against the current culture. example : punk rock (which is (for most punks) anti-capitalism, anti-religion and anarchistic)
A subculture is a set of people with a set of behaviors and beliefs, which could be distinct or hidden, that differentiate them from the larger culture to which they belong. Of course, the traditional definition of subculture would indicate that there are more specific cultures that exist within larger and more broadly defined cultures. However, I believe this definition is redundant when one considers how