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19 Cards in this Set
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anomie
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loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
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Manifest Function
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an open, stated, and conscious function.
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Dysfunction
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an element or process of a society that may disrupt the social system or reduce its stability.
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latent function
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an unconscious or unintended function that may reflect hidden purposes
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Ideal type
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a construct or model for evaluating specific cases
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Dramaturgical approach
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view of social interaction in which people are seen as theatrical performers
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Verstehen
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the need for sociologists to take into account the subjective meanings people attach to their actions
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Hawthorne effect
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unintended influence that observers can have on their subjects
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Experiment
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an artificially created situation that allows a researcher to manipulate variables.
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value neutrality
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Max Weber’s term for objectivity of sociologist in the interpretation of data.
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Mode
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the single most common value in a series of scores.
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Median
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The midpoint or number that divides a series of values into two groups of equal numbers of values.
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experiment group
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the subjects in an experiment who are exposed to an independent variable introduced by a researcher
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control group
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The subjects in an experiment who are not introduced in the independent variable by the researcher
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code of ethics
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the standards of acceptable behavior developed by and for members of a profession
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ethnography
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The study of an entire social setting through extended systematic observation.
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secondary analysis
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a variety of research techniques that make use of previously collected and publicly accessible information and data
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xenocentrism
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belief that aspects of other cultures are superior than one’s own
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Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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a hypothesis concerning the role of language in shaping our interpretation of reality. It holds that language is culturally determined.
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