Visualizing Ourselves

2:49 and shortly after provide a good image of instantaneous communication.

The Truman Show

Spontaneous

Trailer

A 'fake' (internal to the movie) behind the scenes video--it makes apparent the darker sides of the cast

Growing suspicious:  a deleted scene

Truman on the Run:  deleted scene

Today's Schedule:  deleted scene

Test 1 Study guide

Mills (ISR 8-19)

The sociological imagination allows one to combine_____ and_____ to create summations of what is going on in the world.

A(n) ______, such as mass unemployment, is a public problem, whereas a(n)_______, such as someone being unemployed due to lack of job skills, is a private problem.

Becker (ISR 20-35)

For hierarchical organizations, ______are assumed to know more and be more credible than_______.  This idea that info flows upward in a hierarchical organization is known as the idea of the _______.

In an apolitical situation, a sociologist is most likely going to be accused of bias for researching the point of view of_______.

Charon (ISR 44-61)

That humans are_____refers to the fact that they are dependent on their associations with others.  E.g., because of their lack of connection with other humans, Romanian orphans were physically and mentally retarded compared to children that had more human-to-human connections.

The two key characteristics of human nature are that humans are_____and_____.

In communication, humans use_____ which are things that stand for something else.

Human nature is______, in the sense that humans are not fully determined by their instincts, but rather they become what they do b/c of the rules, laws, values, and ideas they develop and transmit through their connections with others.

Humans develop a(n)_____ (or an ego that allows them to be aware of themselves) by interacting with others. 

Humans interacting with others also develop______ which is the ability to think about our environment.

Berger (ISR 86-93)

_____are techniques that function to eliminate undesirable personnel and to encourage others to conform.

Understanding the research process (ES 32-55)

If a researcher studies some cops and wants to use their findings to describe all cops, then they are trying to______their findings.

A researcher studied some instead of all cops.  Therefore, they studied a(n)_____as opposed to a(n)_____.

A researcher wants to determine how often a group of people is brutalized by cops, so they ask them to count the number of times they were ‘subject to police brutality in the past year’.  The researcher notices that the numbers are lower than they expect.  They then redo the study and define exactly what they mean by ‘subject to police brutality’ b/c they realized the participants didn’t full know what they meant by this phrase, which was a little wordy.  The researcher had a(n)______ problem. 

A researcher studies the sentencing process of cops caught in black market drug transactions.  They find that cops tend to get a slap on the wrist in the West of the US and a harsher sentence in the East of the US.  In this example, _____is the independent variable and______is the dependent variable.

A sociologist publishes a report that claims that cops don’t ever commit brutality against civilians, but they explain neither how they collected and analyzed their data nor how they drew their conclusions.  This study lacks______.

Social structure (ES 86-107)

A(n) ______ is the recurring patterns of behavior found in a society or association.

Blog:  What is a sociological question

Fist fighting or sex are examples of interactions involving_____.

Talking to someone via text or Skype are examples of interactions involving______.