Chapter 1 - The sociological perspective Flashcards
Gender-conflict approach
A point of view that focuses on inequality and conflict between men and women.
Global perspective
The study of the larger world and our society’s place in it.
High income countries
Nations with the highest overall standards of living
Latent functions
The unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern.
Low-income countries
Nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor.
Macro-level orientation
A broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole.
Manifest functions
The recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern.
Micro-level orientation
A close up focus on social interaction in specific situations.
Middle-income countries
nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole.
Positivism
A way of understanding based on science.
Postmodernism
An approach that is critical of modernism, with a mistrust of grand theories and ideologies.
Race-conflict approach
A point of view that focuses on inequality and conflict between people of different racial and ethnic categories.
Social-conflict approach
A framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change.
Social dysfunction
any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society.
Social functions
the consequences of any social pattern for the operation of society as a whole.
Social structure
Any relatively stable pattern of social behaviour.
Social perspective
seeing the general in the particular.
Sociology
The systematic study of human society.
Structural-functional approach
A framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
Symbolic-interaction approach
A framework for building theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals.
Theoretical approach
A basic image of society that guides thinking and research.
Theory
A statement of how and why specific facts are related.
Feminism
The advocacy of social equality for women and men, in opposition to patriarchy and sexism.
