Sociology Now, Census Update
bureaucracy appears to be simply a form of organization. But, as the great sociolo- gist Max Weber understood, it is by embeddin ...
Why do our experiences with bureaucracies often feel so unsatisfying? Why do we commonly criticize bureaucracies as too large, t ...
more rules and regulations, which result in greater complexity and overspecialization, which actually reduces coordination, whic ...
immediate colleagues and friends but are likely to punish underlings quite severely for the same infractions. In addition, “old ...
Nations, or regional organizations like the European Union, attempt to bring differ- ent countries together under one bureaucrat ...
100 CHAPTER 3SOCIETY: INTERACTIONS, GROUPS, AND ORGANIZATIONS KeyTerms Achieved status (p. 77) Ascribed status (p. 77) Bureaucra ...
WHAT DOES AMERICA THINK? 101 U.S. adults were married. However, this varied dramatically by social class. Those in the upper cla ...
4 ■Why Sociological Methods Matter Sociology and the Scientific Method The Qualitative/Quantitative Divide ■Doing Sociological R ...
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT DIVORCE IS BAD for children. It’s a daily staple on TV talk shows that children of divorced parents are les ...
Why Sociological Methods Matter Sociology is a “social science,” a phrase that requires some consideration. As a social science, ...
That is because the range of questions that sociologists pose for research is also enormous. Instead of being forced to choose b ...
What’s more, children who were adopted from crisis circumstances—abused or neglected—did better after adoption. This disproves t ...
own teacher will do if you misbehave. (Don’t worry, it’s not true: Most teachers oppose it.) In other situations, the feelings o ...
These are convenient myths, but they are incorrect; they are, themselves, the result of bias. Both quantitative and qualitative ...
Debates among sociologists and other social scien- tists often focus on which method leads to the “truth.” But the correct answe ...
already been done conclusively, in which case you’ll probably want to find another research question. 4.Developing a hypothesis. ...
discern whether there are relationships among the variables that you predicted in your hypotheses and, if there are such relatio ...
element that you predict is the cause of the change, the ingredient that is added to set things in motion: the lit stove in the ...
be as similar as possible (by factors such as age, race, reli- gion, class, gender, and so on) so that we can reduce any possibi ...
Rosenthal and Jacobson administered an IQ test to all the children in an elemen- tary school. Then, without looking at the resul ...
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