Sociology Chapter One Vocab

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Sociology

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discipline that attempts to understand these social forces: the forces outside us that shape our lives, interest, and personalitites.

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Social Determination

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the assumption that humans behavior is explained exclusively by social factors

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Human Agency

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individuals are not passive, they activly shape social life by adapting to, negotiating with, and changing social structures

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Sociolgoical Imagination

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task of sociology was to realize that individual circumstances are inextricably linked to the structure of society
written by: C. Wright Mills

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Positivism

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knowledge bades on systematic observation, experiment, and comparison
Comte

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Social facts

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social factors that exist external to individuls such as tradition, values, laws, religious ideology, and population density
Durkheim

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Sociological theory

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set of ideas that explains a range of human behavior and a variety of sociala nd societal events

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Sample

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a representative part of a population

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Variables

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an attitude, behavior, or condition that can vary in magnitude and significance from case to case

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Control group

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group of subjects not exposed to the independent variable

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Experimental Group

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group of subjects who are exposed to the independent variable

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Dependent variable

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variable that is influenced by the effect of another variable

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Independent variable

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variable that affects another variable