Exam 1

Dualistic thinking asks whether an answer is right or wrong

Job specialization contributes to greater mechanical solidarity

"AAPS" is a memory aid to applying critical thinking to any piece of text. What does the "A' in APPS stand for?

In the current presidential election in the USA, Candidate Mitt Romney usually emphasizes individual rights and individual actions, while Obama positions usually emphasize social goals and social responsibility. this different emphasis on individual vs social rights and responsibilities is an issue of

Anomie refers to rootlessness and the feeling of a breakdown in social norms and expectations and feeling of hopelessness

Your legal proxy is a person who can make legal decisions for you

The study of mind an brain is a major part of the social science discipline called

A researcher ask students have you ever taken adderall or other cognitive enhancing drugs. this research method is called

As a species, humans are bipedal and omnivorous

the unemployment rate in Michigan is 8%, this statement is best characterize as

which of the following big thinkers specifically objected to this line of thinking? which dead social scientist would be turning over in his grave?

Suppose you wanted to measure school spirit. You need a proxy measure for this variable.

in piaget's framework of cognitive development, being able to imagine different perspective and possibilities is something we expect of preschool students.

Casual functional questions address "how" as in "how something works"

the world of meaning is part of empirical reality

this individual argued for progressive taxation- that people should be taxed according to their ability to paythis individual argued for progressive taxation- that people should be taxed according to their abiity to pay

Methodological naturalism is the idea that the universe is unknowable

When reading a piece of text, a critical thinker should be aware of the author's ____. This concept refers to whether the author is speaking as an outsider or insider to some specific group

A percent value is a commonly used index value

which scholar is the most likely to argue that a persons selection of a career should involve a sense of destiny or duty, or a calling to that profession

what is liberal about liberal education? Here liberal means generous

Taxonomy refers to a set of skills used in memorizing something

concepts of environmental sustainability, ecosystems, a cultural landscape and urban planning owe a great deal to the writing of

The environment of evolutionary adaptation is the context within which some neural circuit developed

You notice that you are far more neat and tidy than your roommate. You feel that you are going crazy.Having taken ISS 210, however you recognize that ____ would probably reassure you that his kind of mild obsession is a very common neurosis.

If you wanted to evaluate the number of MSU students who own an apple computer, proxy measure for this variable

The "world of empirical reality" includes your internal world of feelings and emotions.

you and your roommate find out that you are really similar- you like the same music, the same music, the same spot and the same TV shows. You plan on majoring in the same topics. Durkheim would say that your relationship is one of

You have noticed that you are just a number at MSU. you feel that the official of financial aid and the registrar's office is very impersonal, that no one knows anything except their own little job. Your roommate had ISS 210 last semester and says you are describing a perfect

According to Marx, a craftsman who owns his own shop and sells his own product can be alienated from his labor

concepts of labor and management and ideas of class consciousness of the proletarian and the bourgeoisie stem from ideas of

problems throughout our species history that have repeatedly challenged the ability of the individual reproduce are called adaptive problems

micro economics focuses on relatively small scale groups

The relationships between workers and business owners would be ( in marxist terms)

The history of discipline or history of investigation is important in one system fields of study

One argument that various news analysts have made is that revolutions of the arab spring, were fostered in part by feeling of ____ by young people in the north africa and middle east when they realized that their individual hopes and dreams were not aligned with what possible in their futre

The sense of duty, honor, and a calling refers to a sense of moral imperative. This is conveyed in Weber's concept of

synthesis involves memorizing facts and information

The modern emphasis on metric and measurements owes a great deal to

Diachronic models involve change over time

the idea that we can rely upon empirical data to make sense of the natural world is called

Well-established general principles and regularities that have been observed about the natural world are called scientific laws

When reading a piece of text, a critical thinker should be aware of the ____ that the author is using. For example, in an argument about obesity, the author may be focusing on obesity as an indiviudal problem, or as a social problem of public health.

concepts of chaos theory and cybernetic and homeostasis all refer to the operation of

The social sciences are generally considered to be "one system" fields of study

this scholar looked at what is biological and what is cultural about being a teenager

in marxist terms, alienation refers to emotions

Recognizing and imitating human facial expressions are apparently "hard- wired" or ______ human behaviors