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a German word that means to understand in a deep way

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verstehen

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a proposed explanation about social interactions or society

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theory

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a theoretical perspective through which scholars examine the relationship of individuals within their society by studying their communication (language and symbols)

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symbolic interactionism

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the systematic study of society and social interaction

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sociology

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the ability to understand how your own past relates to that of other people, as well as to history in general and societal structures in particular

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sociological imagination

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a group of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another and who share a common culture

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society

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the social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion

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social solidarity

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patterns of beliefs and behaviors focused on meeting social needs

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social institutions

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the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life

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social facts

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specific individuals that impact a person’s life

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significant others

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an error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existence

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reification

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statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants

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quantitative sociology

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in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data

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qualitative sociology

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the scientific study of social patterns

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positivism

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philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them

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paradigms

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the study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups

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micro-level theories

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sought consequences of a social process

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manifest functions

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a wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society

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macro-level

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the unrecognized or unintended consequences of a social process

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latent functions

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a testable proposition

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hypothesis

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an attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change

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grand theories

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the organized and generalized attitude of a social group

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generalized others

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a theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals that make up that society

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functionalism

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the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity

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function

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the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior

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figuration

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social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society

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dysfunctions

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a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly

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dynamic equilibrium

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a technique sociologists use in which they view society through the metaphor of theatrical performance

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dramaturgical analysis

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a group’s shared practices, values, and beliefs

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culture

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an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be

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constructivism

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a theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources

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conflict theory

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the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values

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antipositivism