Soc 100
Hrm554 - The midterm is worth 30% of your overall grade. The midterm will be based on a total of 100 points. You will be required to answer five (5) identifications (5 points each), three (3) short answers (15 points each), and one (1) long essay (30 points). Make sure to provide details and be specific in your answers. Below is a list of all of the potential questions that may be on the exam.
A. Identification: 10 will be listed; you must answer 5 (about ¼ to ½ a blue book page; spend 5 minutes on each).
Hrm 554 - Internal-Social influences: Biological factors (mental problems, health), family factors, social experiences, race/class/gender, and religion. All influence their work.
External-Social Influences: French Revolution, Economic depression, WWII - History and the generation in which they lived had an great impact. What was going during their era such as the French Revolution, and the industrial revolution shaped their theory's. Availability of money to help fund research also has an influence.
Soc100 - External-intellectual Influences: Ideas outside of sociology; philosophy, economy. Founding fathers were 100% this – refers to political and economical influences. The area in which they studied helped influence and shape their theories.
Internal intellectual influences: theorists who’ve been most powerfully influenced by ideas internal to sociology. Their ideas were shaped by other theories and ties to other scholars.
Soc 100 - Postivism: is the philosophy that the only authentic knowledge is knowledge that is based on actual sense experience. Such knowledge can only come from affirmation of theories through strict scientific method. Metaphysical speculation is avoided. It was developed by Auguste Comte in the 19th century. – argues that the one true knowledge is scientific knowledge. That the belief that an understanding of phenomena is solely grounded on sense data. “what can not be tested empirically cannot be regarded as proven.”
Soc 100
A. Identification: 10 will be listed; you must answer 5 (about ¼ to ½ a blue book page; spend 5 minutes on each).
Hrm 554 - Internal-Social influences: Biological factors (mental problems, health), family factors, social experiences, race/class/gender, and religion. All influence their work.
External-Social Influences: French Revolution, Economic depression, WWII - History and the generation in which they lived had an great impact. What was going during their era such as the French Revolution, and the industrial revolution shaped their theory's. Availability of money to help fund research also has an influence.
Soc100 - External-intellectual Influences: Ideas outside of sociology; philosophy, economy. Founding fathers were 100% this – refers to political and economical influences. The area in which they studied helped influence and shape their theories.
Internal intellectual influences: theorists who’ve been most powerfully influenced by ideas internal to sociology. Their ideas were shaped by other theories and ties to other scholars.
Soc 100 - Postivism: is the philosophy that the only authentic knowledge is knowledge that is based on actual sense experience. Such knowledge can only come from affirmation of theories through strict scientific method. Metaphysical speculation is avoided. It was developed by Auguste Comte in the 19th century. – argues that the one true knowledge is scientific knowledge. That the belief that an understanding of phenomena is solely grounded on sense data. “what can not be tested empirically cannot be regarded as proven.”
Soc 100