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29 Cards in this Set
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The scientific study of social structure and social interaction and of the factors making for change is?
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Sociology
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The Father of sociology was?
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Comte
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The Mother of Sociology was?
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Harriet Martineau
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Translated Comte's work into English...
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Martineau
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Karl Marx urged what?
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Revolution
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Felt sociologists must pay attention to the way we use TIME & SPACE...
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Hall
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Comte was a?
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Believer in social science
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Marx focused on what?
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Factory owners
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Max Weber focused on which of the following?
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Economy & Religion
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Durkheim focused on which of the following?
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"Glue" and suicide
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Sociology began in
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Western Europe
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He taught that sociologists need to study structures and functions...
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Merton
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The acts people perform toward one another and the responses that they give in turn...
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Social interaction
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A social condition in which social norms are conflicting or entirely absent...
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Anomie
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The mutually shared products, knowledge, and the beliefs of a human group or society...
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Culture
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Our mental pictures of the relative importance of things..
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Perspectives
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The belied that one's own culture is superior to all other cultures...
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Ethnocentrism
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The key word for culture...
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Values
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The specific expectations about how people behave in a given situation....
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Norms
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Theory based on the idea that individuals construct the nature of their social world through social interaction...
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Symbolic interaction
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Any act, object, or event that, through social usage, has come to stand for something else...
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Symbol
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The X in the equation x----->y is?
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The dependent variable
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How a variable will be measured?
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Operational definition
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A small of number of cases that represents the research population...
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Sample
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Merton focused on what?
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Functions
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C. Wright Mills wrote about what?
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Sociological imagination
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Erving Goffman focused on what?
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Dramaturgy
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Cooley focused on what?
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Symbols
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Durkeim focused on what?
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Suicide
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