Unit A Flashcards
the science of society
Sociology
products of human interaction with persuasive or coercive power that exist externally to any individual
Social Facts
systematically collected sets of empirical observations
Data
queries about the world that can be answered empirically
Sociological Research Questions
tools of sociological inquiry that involve careful consideration and discussion of the meaning of nonnumerical data
Qualitative Research Methods
tools of sociological inquiry that involve examining numerical data with mathematics
Quantitative Research Methods
the skill of understanding others as they understand themselves
Sociological Sympathy
the set of moral principles that guide empirical inquiry
Research Ethics
empirically based explanations and predictions about relationships between social facts
Sociological Theory
explainable and foreseeable similarities and differences among people influenced by the social conditions in which they live
Social Patterns
points of view grounded in lived reality
Standpoints
the work of using sociological theory to make societies better
Public Sociology
the theory that social interaction depends on the social construction of reality
Symbolic Interactionism
the capacity to consider how people’s lives—including our own—are shaped by the social facts that surround us
Sociological Imagination
the theory that society is a system of necessary, synchronized parts that work together to create social stability
Structural Functionalism
