As you read the text, make notes about these learning objectives. Page numbers are provided. You will turn in your Guided Reading Review for a grade. Type your answers in a word document and save to your computer and submit when you are done. Make sure that you answer the questions using as much detail as possible to receive full credit.
Explain why both history and biography are essential for the sociological perspective. (p. 3).
Who is Max Weber (p. 4)
Explain the basic ideas of symbolic interactionism, functional analysis, and conflict theory. (p. 14)
Explain why common sense can’t replace sociological research. (p. 21)
List the eight steps of the research model. (p. 21)
Know the main elements of the seven research methods. (p. 24)
Explain how gender is significant in sociological research. (p. 32)
Explain why it’s vital for sociologists to protect the people they study and discuss the two cases that are presented. (p. 33)
Explain how research versus reform and globalization are likely to influence sociology. (p. 34)
Ch 2
Explain what culture is, how culture provides orientations to life, and what practicing cultural relativism means. (p. 40)
Know the components of symbolic culture: gestures, language, values, norms, sanctions, folkways, mores, and taboos; also explain the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. (p. 4
Distinguish between subcultures and countercultures. (p. 53)
Discuss the major U.S. values and explain value clusters, value contradictions, value clashes, how values are lenses of perception, and ideal versus real culture. (p. 56)
Explain what cultural universals are and why they do not seem to exist. (p. 60)
Explain why most sociologists consider genes to be an inadequate explanation of human behavior. (p. 61)
Explain how technology changes culture and what cultural lag and cultural leveling are. (p. 62)
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