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21 Cards in this Set
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conflict theory
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a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the role of power and coercion in producing social order
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debunking
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looking behind the facades of everyday life
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diversity
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the variety of group experiences that result from the social structure of society
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empirical
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refers to something that is based on careful and systematic observation
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Enlightenment
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the period in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Europe characterized by faith in the ability of human reason to solve society’s problems
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feminist theory
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analyses of women and men in society intended to improve women’s lives
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functionalism
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a theoretical perspective that interprets each part of society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole society
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issues
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problems that affect large numbers of people and have their origins in the institutional arrangements and history of a society
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organic metaphor
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refers to the similarity early sociologists saw between society and other organic systems
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positivism
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a system of thought that regards scientific observation to be the highest form of knowledge
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social change
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the alteration of social interaction, social institutions, stratification systems, and elements of culture over time
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social Darwinism
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the idea that society evolves to allow the survival of the fittest
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social facts
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social patterns that are external to individuals
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social institution
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an established and organized system of social behavior with a recognized purpose
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social interaction
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behavior between two or more people that is given meaning
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social structure
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e patterns of social relationships and social institutions that make up society
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sociological imagination
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the ability to see the societal patterns that influence individual and group life
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sociology
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the study of human behavior in society
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symbolic interaction theory
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a theoretical perspective claiming that people act toward things because of the meaning things have for them
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troubles
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privately felt problems that come from events or feelings in one individual’s life
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verstehen
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the process of understanding social behavior from the point of view of those engaged in it
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