Please answer 6 of the questions below in a coherent essay-paragraph form (1-2 detailed paragraphs).
Answer in as much detail as possible using course materials, discussions, and lived experience. Use your own words. Responses with copy and pasted definitions from the textbook or the internet will NOT be graded.
1. What is the Sociological Imagination?
- Which thinker is credited with the term and what does it mean?
- How can using a sociological imagination help us better understand society?
2. Discuss the difference between cultural relativism and cultural imperialism and why they are important when studying culture broadly?
- Give examples of both concepts
3. Discuss three of the following experiments and their importance to shaping the Social Sciences, in other words, how did these studies affect how research is developed today?
- Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Experiment
- Milgram Study
- Doll Test
- Stanford Prison Study (Zimbardo)
4. What are the elements of culture?
- How do ideas become mainstream culture v. remaining a sub-culture?
- What is counterculture? (Please give examples)
- What is a sub-culture? (Please give examples)
5. Please give examples of the different types of leaders below and why they are effective at driving others to action
- Authoritarian
- Democratic
- Laissez-faire
- Expressive
6. What did Freud, Erik Erikson, and Cooley say about how “self is developed”?
- Please discuss each theory of self-development
7. What are the differences between conflict theory, symbolic interaction, and structural functionalism?
- How do these frameworks help Sociologists better understand society?
- Please give an example of how each theoretical framework can be applied to the same social problem. Ex; traffic, homelessness, food insecurity, etc.
8. What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative research?
- Please give an example of research methods for each
- Explain the difference between an independent and dependent variable
9. Describe the Harlow Studies and what they explain about “nature v. nurture”
- Based on Harlow’s conclusions discuss your position in the debate of nature v. nurture
10. Please define and give examples of the types of the group below:
- In-group
- Outgroup
- Primary Group
- Secondary
- Reference Group
11. What is the Bard Prison Initiative?
- When was it established?
- What are the goals of the program?
- Discuss why or why not programs like the Bard Prison Initiative should be offered
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