Write a 3-5-page essay covering the concepts of the midterm. Use at least half of the concepts asked in the midterm to complete this assignment and supplicate your essay with additional concepts discussed in class when relevant. Choose at least three of the articles below to complete this assignment.
You may also use other relevant articles as long as you cite them to strengthen your essay.
1. http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/205547517/where-in-the-world-are-thereno-
mcdonald-s
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/opinion/sunday/when-leaning-in-doesnt-payoff.
html?_r=0
3. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-inc/2011…
4. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/study-shows-that-humansattribute-
morals-and-emotions-to-robots
5. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adult…
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/living-alone-means-beingsocial.
html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
7. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/business/energy-…
8. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/the-pros-…
9. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/the-…
10. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/middle-class-areas-shrink-as-income-gap-growsreport-
finds.html
Questions and concepts are as follows:
SOC 131
Read and answer the following questions using short answers. Each question is worth 4 points.
1. What is “the scientific study of human activity in society or more specifically the study of the social forces that influence or pressure people to behave, respond, or think in certain ways”?
2. What is “the ever-increasing flow of goods, services, money, people, technology, information, and other cultural items across national borders”?
3. What is “the process by which a locality embraces, adapts to, or resists a product, an idea, a way
of behaving that has come to them in the cross-national flow”?
4. What is known as “a quality of mind that allows people to see how remote and impersonal social forces shape their life story or biography”?
5. What is known as “personal needs, problems, or difficulties brought on by individual shortcomings related to motivation, attitude, ability, character, or judgment”?
6. What is “a matter that can be explained only by factors outside an individual’s control and immediate environment”?
7. Sociology emerged as a reaction to what?
8. Who are the founding fathers of sociology? Give at least two names.
9. What theory defines society as a system of interrelated, interdependent parts?
10. What are intended or anticipated effects that a part has on the existing social order?
11. What are unintended or unanticipated effects that a part has on the existing order?
12. What is the theory that asks the question who benefits from a particular social arrangement, and at whose expense?
13. This theory focuses on social interaction and related concepts of self-awareness/reflexive thinking, symbols, and negotiated order.
14. What method do sociologists adhere to?
15. Why do researchers gather data?
16. What is a group to which a person belongs to, identifies, admires, and/or feels loyalty?
17. What is the process by which people develop a sense of self and learn the ways of the society in
which they live?
18. What are agents of socialization? Name at least two. Significant others, primary groups, ingroups and out-groups, and institutions
19. What are everyday encounters in which people communicate, interpret, and respond to each other’s words and actions?
20. What are social statuses that are the result of chance in that people exert no effort to obtain them? A person’s birth order, race, biological sex, and age are examples.
21. What are social statuses acquired through some combination of personal choice, effort, and ability. A person’s marital status, occupation, and educational attainment are examples.
22. What is the model in which social interaction can be viewed as if it were a theater, people as if they were actors, and roles as if they were performances before an audience?
23. What is an organizational structure put in place to achieve some valued goal by using the most
efficient means to coordinate human activity?
24. What is the process in which thought and action rooted in custom, emotion, or respect for mysterious forces is replaced by instrumental-rational thought and action?
25. What is “the process by which the principles of the fast food restaurant are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world” (Ritzer 1993. p. 1)?
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