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15 Cards in this Set
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Distancing yourself from your own society so you can see what it is that you do
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Sociological imagination
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What method did Durkheim use to study suicide?
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Comparative method-official records from European countries
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What were Durkheim's major findings on suicide?
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Suicide rates varied by place; suicide rates varied by parenthood, marital status, and religion
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Aspects of social life life that can’t be explained in terms of the biological or mental characteristics of an individual
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Social facts
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What are the 3 perspectives on social order?
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structural functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist
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Sees society as a system, the "big picture"
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Functionalism
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Structure of society and the nature of social relationships are the result of past and ongoing conflicts
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Conflict theory
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Consequences that are intended and recognized by the participants in a system
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Manifest functions
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Consequences that are neither intended nor recognized by the participants in a system
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Latent functions
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• Our experience of the world; meaning is not something that inheres in things; it is a property that derives from the interaction that takes place among people in the course of their daily lives
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Constructed reality
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Careful, systematic study of evidence; scientific method
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Empirical
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Human behavior not like a chemical reaction; likelihood, probability
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Probablistic
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A definition developed by taking abstract concepts and putting them in a form that permits their measurement
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Operational definition
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The variable being influenced
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Dependent
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Data in the form of numbers, analyzed using statistics
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Quantitative
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