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11 Cards in this Set
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SOCIOLOGY
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the scientific study of social interaction and social organization
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SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION
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the abilty to see our private experiences, personal difficulties, and achievements as, in part, a reflection of the structural arrangements of society in the times in which we live
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MICROSOCIOLOGY
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the detailed study of what people say, do, and think moement by moment as they go about their daily lives
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MACROSOCIOLOGY
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the study of large-scale and long term social processes
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SOCIAL STATISTICS
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aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability, and social organization that allows societies and groups to hold together and endure
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SOCIAL DYNAMICS
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processes of social life that pattern institutional development and have to do with social change
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SOCIAL DARWINISM
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the application of evolutionary notions and the concept of survival of the fittest to the social world
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CLASS CONFLICT
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the view of Karl MArx that soceity is divided into those who own the means of producing wealth and those who do not, giving rise to struggles between classes
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DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
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the notion in Marxist theory that development depends on the clash of contradictions and the creation of new, more advanced structures out of these clashes
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ECONOMIC DETERMINIST
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a believer in the doctrine that economic factors are the primary determinants of the structure of societies and social change
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SOCIAL FACTS
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those aspects of social life that cannot be explained in the terms of the biological or mental characteristics of the individual
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