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38 Cards in this Set
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C1, Individualistic explanation |
The tendency to attribute people's achievements and failures to their personal qualities. |
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C1, Sociological imagination |
The ability to see the impact of social forces on our private lives. |
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C1, Sociology |
The systematic study of human societies |
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C2, Achieved status |
The social position acquired through our own efforts or accomplishments or taken on voluntarily. |
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C2, Ascribed status |
The social position acquired at birth or taken on involuntarily later in life. |
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C2, Coalition |
The subgroup of a triad, formed when two members unite against the third member. |
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C2, Conflict perspective |
The theoretical perspective that views the structure of society as a source of inequality that always benefits some groups at the expense of other groups. |
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C2, Culture |
Language, values, beliefs, rules, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a society. |
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C2, Dyad |
A group consisting of two people. |
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C2, Feminist perspective |
The theoretical perspective that focuses on gender as the most important source of conflict and inequality in social life. |
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C2, Globalization |
The process through which people's lives all around the world become economically , politically, environmentally, and culturally interconnected. |
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C2, Group |
A set of people who interact more or less regularly and who are conscious of their identity as a unit. |
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C2, In-groups |
The group to which we belong and toward which we feel a sense of loyalty. |
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C2, Latent function |
Unintended, unrecognized consequences of activities that help some part of the social system. |
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C2, Macrolevel |
The way of examining human life that focuses on the broad social forces and structural features of society that exist above the level of individual people. |
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C2, Manifest function |
Intended, obvious consequences of activities designed to help some part of the social system. |
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C2, Microlevel |
The way of examining human life that focuses on the immediate, everyday experiences of individuals. |
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C2, Norm |
The culturally defined standard or rule of conduct. |
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C2, Organization |
The large, complex network of positions created for a specific purpose and characterized by a heirarchical division of labor. |
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C2, Out-groups |
The groups to which we don't belong and toward which we feel a certain amount of antagonism. |
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C2, Primary group |
The collection of individuals who are together for a relatively long period, whose members have a direct contact with and feel emotional attachment to one another. |
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C2, Role |
The set of expectations-rights, obligations, behaviours and duties associated with a particular status. |
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C2, Role conflict |
The frustration people feel when the demands of one role they are expected to fulfill clash with the demands of another role. |
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C2, Role strain |
The situations in which people lack the necessary resources to fulfill the demands of a particular role. |
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C2, Secondary group |
The relatively impersonal collection of indiviuals that is established to perform a specific task. |
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C2, Social institution |
The stable set of roles, statuses, groups, and organizations--such as the institutions of education, family, politics, religion, health care, or the economy--that provide a foundation for behavior in some major area of social life. |
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C2, Society |
A popluation of people living in the same geographic areas who share a culture and a common identity and whose members are subject to the same politcal authority. |
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C2, Status |
Any named social position that people can occupy |
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C2, Structural-functionalist perspective |
The theoretical perspective that posits that social institutions are structured to maintain stability and order in society. |
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C2, Symbol |
Something used to represent or stand for something else. |
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C2, Symbolic interactionism |
The theoretical perspective that explains society and social structure through an examination of the microlevel, personal, day-to-day exchanges of people as individuals, pairs, or groups. |
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C2, Triad |
A group consisting of three people. |
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C2, Value |
The standard of judgment by which people decide on desirable goals and outcomes. |
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C3, Qualitative research |
Sociological research based on nonnumeric information (text, written words, phrases, symbols, and observations) that describes people, actions, or events in social life. |
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C3, Quantitative research |
Sociological research based on the collection of numeric data that uses precise statistical analysis. |
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C3, Reactivity |
A problem associated with certain forms of research in which the very act of intruding into people's lives may influence the phenomenon of being studied. |
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C3, Representative |
The typical of the whole population being studied. |
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C3, Sample |
A subgroup chosen for a study because its characteristics approximate those of the entire population. |