Assignment 1:
Answer all questions
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Please number your answers and separate your answers. For example 1a should be separated from 1b, and 1c.
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1a. What is sociology?
1b. Based on your knowledge in this course discuss the meaning of sociological perspective.
1c. What is the difference between positivism and social darwinism?
2a. What are difference between symbolic interactionism perspective, functional analysis, and conflict theory?
2b. What are the differences between manifest, latent and dysfunctions
3. Based on your knowledge in this course, differentiate between the following pair of terms in research methods:
hypothesis and a theory
independent variable and dependent variable
validity and reliability
survey and participant observation
sample and a population
random sampling and experimental method
Control and experimental groups
4. Based on your knowledge in this course, differentiate between the following pair of sociological concepts:
a. Material and non-material culture
b. Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
c. Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and symbolic culture
d. Mores and folkways
e. Values and norms
f Subculture and counterculture
g. Cultural diffusion and cultural leveling
h. Ideal and real culture
5. Based on your knowledge in this course, differentiate between the following pair of sociological concepts:
a. Socialization and gender socialization
b. Anticipatory socialization and total institutions
c. Agents of socialization and re-socialization
d. Freud's theory of personality and "the Looking-Glass Self