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Culture |
the 'way of life' of a particular group. This is normally defined in terms of material culture, or the objects people produce, and non material culture - the ideas and beliefs they create |
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Beliefs |
ideas that are accepted as true, whether they are true of not they are supported by evidence |
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Social Order |
the behavioral patterns and regularities established by societies that make social action possible |
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Scientific Method |
a way of generating knowledge about the world through objective, systematic and controlled research. The hypothetico-deductive model is an example of a scientific method |
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Positivism |
a methodology based on the principle that it is possible and desirable to study the social world in broadly the same way as natural scientists study the natural world |
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Capitalism |
an economic system based on the pursuit of private profit. Capitalism's defining relationship is between employer and employee (owner and non owners) |
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Social Change |
on a macro level, social change involves a major shift in the political, economic and cultural order (such as the change from feudalism to capitalism to pre-modern to modern society). On a micro level it can refer to everyday changes in political, economic and cultural relationships |
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Weberian theory |
a sociological perspective, deriving from the work of Max Weber, focused on understanding and explaining social action. Contemporary forms of Weberian sociology are usually expressed as interactionist sociology |
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Value Consensus |
agreement about the things a society, and by extension individuals within that society, thinks are important |
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Traditional society |
type of society in which behaviour is characterized by and based on long standing customs, habits and traditions |
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Mechanical solidarity |
type of social solidarity characteristic of pre industrial/tribal societies, in which people are bound together by who they are rather than what they do |
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Organic solidarity |
type of social solidarity characteristic of industrial societies, in which people are bound together by what they do |
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Hypothetico-deductive method |
positivist research design based on the development and systematic testing of hypotheses |
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Hypothesis |
statement or question that can be systematically |
