According to Dorothy Smith,by giving primacy to the concepts and topics recognized by the discipline of sociology,sociology has failed to move beyond hegemonic ways of knowing.
When Watson proposed that psychology should only study observable behaviours and not consciousness he was emphasising the unifying theme that
A) behaviour is influenced by multiple causes. B) people's experience of the world is highly subjective. C) psychology should use theories. D) psychology should be empirical.
Suppose you have been asked to find as many prime numbers as possible. (A prime number is one that cannot be evenly divided by any smaller integer other than 1.) You know that it is impossible to test all the positive integers, so you devise a strategy for testing only certain numbers that you guess might be primes. Your way of solving this problem makes use of
A) heuristics. B) an algorithm. C) a prototype. D) base-rate information.
This concept refers to all of the socially passed on knowledge that helps some children get ahead,while holding back others who lack it,thereby contributing to the reproduction of ruling class culture:
A) Cultural capital B) Human capital C) Socio-economic resources D) Social bling