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sociology |
the study of group interactions societies and social interactions, from small personal grous to very large grpups. |
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society |
A group of people who live in a defined geographic area, who interact with one another, and who share a common culture is what sociologists call a |
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micro-level |
studying of small groups and individual interactions |
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macro-level |
analysis look at trends among and between large groups and societies |
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culture |
refers to the groups shared practices, values and beliefs1 |
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C. Wright Mills |
sociological imagination described by the founder/ pioneer of it as an awareness of the relationship between a person's behavior and experience and the wider culture that shaped the person's choices and perceptions. |
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Reification |
is an error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existance |
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social facts |
Laws, morals, values, religion beliefs, customs, fashions, cultural rules that govern social life, and rituals and all of the other things that may contribute to these changes in the family |
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Figuration |
German sociologist Norbert Elias called the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of individuals and the society that shapes that behavior |
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antipositivism |
the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values |
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generalized others |
the organized and generalized attitude of a social group |
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positivism |
the scientific study of social patterns` |
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qualitative sociology |
in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data |
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quantitative sociology |
statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants |
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significant others |
specific individuals that impact a person's life |
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verstehen |
a German word that means to understand in a deep way |
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conflict theory |
a theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources |
