CHP1 Vocab Flashcards
the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values
antipositivism
a theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources
conflict theory
an extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be
constructivism
a group’s shared practices, values, and beliefs
culture
a technique sociologists use in which they view society through the metaphor of theatrical performance
dramaturgical analysis
a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly
dynamic equilibrium
social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society
dysfunctions
the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior
figuration
the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity
function
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
functionalism
the organized and generalized attitude of a social group
generalized others
an attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change
grand theories
a testable proposition
hypothesis
the unrecognized or unintended consequences of a social process
latent functions
a wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society
macro-level
