Sociology: Theory, Stratification and Methods
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Apply classical and contemporary sociological theory to stratification, institutions and the structure versus agency problem
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Quizzes
Write multiple-choice items in which the stem is a short empirical vignette, a finding stated with numbers, or a quoted passage, and the task is to identify the theoretical frame that explains it, the mechanism at work, or the unit and level of analysis. Draw on the source material for functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and contemporary frameworks, and on concepts such as social closure, cultural and…
Tests
Assemble a test weighted 35 percent multiple-choice, 35 percent short answer, 30 percent essay. Short answer items of five to eight sentences should ask the student to explain a pattern of stratification using a named framework and to state what data would test it, or to distinguish individual-level from structural explanations for the same outcome. The essay must require an explicit thesis sentence, at least three…
Flashcards
One concept per card. Allowed patterns: a concept front with a back giving a one-sentence definition, the tradition it comes from, and a two-clause example of it operating in the world; a contrast front asking how two confusable concepts differ, with a back naming the single criterion, for example achieved versus ascribed status, class versus status versus party, manifest versus latent function, prejudice versus…