Chapter 1 - Intro to Soc

Question 1

The scientific study of social patterns

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Positivism

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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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Statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants

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Quantitative soc

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A proposed explanation about social interactions or society

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Theory

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A testable proposition

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Hypothesis

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Sought consequences of a social process

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Manifest functions

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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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Constructivsism

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The ability to understand how you 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

Question 9

Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society

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Dysfunctions

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The view that social researches should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and social values

Answer 10

Antipositivism

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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

Question 12

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

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Social sokidarity

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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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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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A groups shared practices, values, and beliefs

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Culture

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

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Reification

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A German word that means to understand in a deep way

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Verstehen

Question 19

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

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Conflict theory

Question 20

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

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Dramaturgical analysis

Question 21

Specific individuals that impact a persons life

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Significant others

Question 22

The systematic study of society and social interactions

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Society

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The unrecognized and unintended consequences of a social process

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Latent functions

Question 24

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 study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups

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Mice level theories

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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 soc

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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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The organized and generalized attitude of a social group

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Generalized others

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Patterns of beliefs and behaviors focused on meeting social needs

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Social institutions

Question 30

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

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Figuration