Identify and define the research method used in Street Corner Society (1948) and then explain how this research method gets around the very first rule of formal, scientific, academic sociology, which is, never research yourself. In order to get credit for your answer you must name the research method, as well as show that you know who researched and wrote Street Corner Society.
Explain why it would be inaccurate to describe The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1908) as a study about “total institutions?” In order to get credit for your answer you must show that you know who researched and wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and what this study was about. You must also show that you know when the term “total institutions” was invented, who invented it and how I specifically defined this term in this course.
Describe the culture of wealth Daniel Patrick Moynihan was connected to, (i.e., think about where he worked as professor and in the U.S. federal government), and how this connection might have affected his research on African American families? In order to get credit for your answer you must show that you know where, when and how Moynihan did his research on African American families.
Use the interaction and communication between Mr. Foster and Mr. Lee to explain the difference between dramaturgy and ethnomethodology. In order to get credit for your answer you must show that you know the details of Mr. Foster and Mr. Lee’s interaction and communication (i.e., the time and place, roughly; what happened and why; the specific things said or not said), as well as what dramaturgy and ethnomethodology are.
Use the life and death of Anne Parsons to justify the need for feminist standpoint theory. In order to get credit for your answer you must show that you know when, specifically, Anne Parson lived and died, as well as well as the person and time feminist standpoint theory was invented.