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36 Cards in this Set
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Social Interaction
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What people do when they are in one anothers presence.
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Social Location
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The group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society
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Subjective meanings
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The meanings that people give their own behavior
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Common Sense
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Those things that everyone knows are true.
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Social facts
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Durkheim's Term for groups patterns of behavior
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Scientific method
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The use of objective, systematic observations to test theories.
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Manifest functions
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The intended consequences of peoples actions designed to help some part of a social system.
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Latent Functions
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The unintended consequences of peoples actions that help to keep a social system in equilibrium.
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Class Conflict
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Karl Marxs term for the struggle between capitalists and workers.
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Replication
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Repating a study in order to test its findings
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Patterns
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Recurring characteristics or events
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Value Free
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The view that a sociologist personal values should not influence social research.
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Society
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People who share a culture and a territory.
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Micro-Level Analysis
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An examination of small scale patterns of society
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Science
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The application of systematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods.
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Verstehen
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A German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as "To have insight into someone's situation."
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Globalization of capitalism
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Capitalism (Investing to make profits within a rational system) becoming the globes dominant economic system.
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Natural Sciences
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The intellectual and academic disiplines designed to comprehend, explain, and predict events in our natural environment.
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Positivism
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The application of the scientific approach to the social world.
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Functional Analysis
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A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium; also known as functionalism and structural functionalism.
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Bourgeoisie
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Karl Marxs term for capitalists, those who own the means to produce wealth.
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Objectivity
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Total neutrality
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Sociology
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The study of society
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Conflict theory
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A theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups competing for scarce resources
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Symbolic interactionism
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A theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with on another.
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Values
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The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly.
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Generalization
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A statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group or situation.
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Macro-Level analysis
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An examination of large scale patterns of society
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Proletariat
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Karl Marxs Term for the exploited class, the people who work for those who own the means of production.
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Social Sciences
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The intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observations.
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Nonverbal interaction
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Communication without words through gestures,s pace, silence, and so on.
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Applied Sociology
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The use of sociology to solve problems from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution.
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Base (Pure Sociology)
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Research with the goal of understanding social life and testing theories.
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Globalization
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The extensive interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism
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Theory
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A General statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one another
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Sociological Perspective
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An approach to understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context.
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