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15 Cards in this Set
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the fundamental models or frames of reference we use to organize our observations and reasoning.
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Paradigms
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Deals with large, aggregate entities of society or even whole societies.
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Macrotheory
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Deals with issues of social life at the level of individuals and small groups.
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Microtheory
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The scientific approach, in contrast to what he regarded as negative elements in the Enlightenment
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Positivism
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Proved to be fruitful outside the realm of purely economic analyses.
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Conflict Paradigm
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Proved to be fruitful outside the realm of purely economic analyses.
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Symbolic Interactionism
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Grown out of a notion introduced by Comte and Spencer: A social entity, such as an organization or a whole society, can be viewed as an organism.
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Structural Functionalism
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Called attention to aspects of social life that other paradigms do not reveal.
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Feminist Paradigm
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Generally associated with the civil rights movement of the mid 1950s and race-related legislation of the 1960s. Fears that strides toward equality were beginning to bog down, civil rights activists and social scientists began the codification of a paradigm based on race awareness and a commitment to racial justice.
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Critical Race Theory
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Suggesting the laws will only be changed to benefit African Americans if and when those changes are seen to further the interests of whites.
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Interest Convergence
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Often portrayed as a denial of the possibility of social science
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Postmodernism
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Suggests that we define “reality” as that which can be seen to have an effect.
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Critical Realism
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A specified testable expectation about empirical reality that follows from a more general proposition
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Hypothesis
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Specifying the exact operations involved in measuring a variable
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Operationalism
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The sake of precision in observation, measurement, and communication. Otherwise, we would never know whether a study that contradicted ours did so only because it used a different set of procedures to measure one of the variables and thus changed the meaning of the hypothesis being tested.
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Operational Definition
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