Termen H1

Question 1

individual perspective

Answer 1

type of explanation of human behavior which focuses on individual causes

Question 2

social context

Answer 2

social environment in which people are embedded

Question 3

sociological perspective

Answer 3

type of explanation of human behavior which focuses on social causes

Question 4

social phenomenon

Answer 4

collective human behavior

Question 5

proximate causes

Answer 5

factors that are close to the phenomena to be explained

Question 6

ultimate causes

Answer 6

factors that underlie proximate causes

Question 7

micro level

Answer 7

the level at which individuals operate

Question 8

meso level

Answer 8

social contexts at the intermediate level (families, neighborhoods, schools, organizations)

Question 9

macro level

Answer 9

social contexts that are broader than meso level units (nations, groups of nations, continents)

Question 10

social problem

Answer 10

1. goes beyond the personal troubles of the individual (it affects many people)
2. is an issue about which many people are concerned

Question 11

personal trouble

Answer 11

problem related to the personal life of an individual

Question 12

social intervention

Answer 12

social policy measure

Question 13

societal relevance

Answer 13

relevance of sociological work for the understanding of social problems

Question 14

normative question

Answer 14

question that entails value judgments

Question 15

scientific question

Answer 15

question that does not entail value judgement (descriptive, theoretical and application)

Question 16

question ingredients

Answer 16

1. behavior of interest
2. social contexts
3. period
4. populations

Question 17

scientific relevance

Answer 17

relevance of sociological work for the accumulation of sociological knowledge

Question 18

comparative-case question

Answer 18

question which includes some comparison of cases, such as multiple social contexts, multiple moments in time and/or multiple populations

Question 19

common sense

Answer 19

everyday thinking, intuitions, beliefs and perceptions

Question 20

cumulative science

Answer 20

the practice that theories and observations of earlier studies are incorporated in the work of successive studies