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What is the systemic study of human society?
Sociology
What is the term that refers to a special point of view of sociology that sees general paterns of society in the lives of particular people?
Sociological Perspective
What is the term for studying the larger world and our societies place in it?
Global Perspective
Nations with the highest overall standerds of living
High Income Nations
Nations with the standard of living about average for the world as a whole
Middle Income Nations
Nations with low standard of living in which most people are poor
Low income Nations
A way of understanding based on science is known as
Potivisim
A statement of how and why specific facts are related
Theory
The basic image of society that guides thinking and research
Theoretical Approach
The framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
Structural Functional Approach
Any relativly stable pattern of social behavior
Social Structure
The consequences of any social pattern for the operation of society
Social Functions
Functions that are recognized and intended consquences of any social pattern
Manifest Functions
The unrecognized and unitended consquences of any social pattern
Latent Functions
Any social pattern that may disrupt the opperation of society
Social Disfunction
A point of view that focuses on inequality and conflict between women and men
Gender Conflict Approach
Refers to the advocacy of social eqaulity between women and men
Feminism
Point of view that focues on the inequality and conflict of people of diffrent racial and ethnic categories
Race Conflict Approach
Broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole
Macro Level Orginization
Close up focus on social interaction in specific situations
Micro Level Orignization
Framework for building theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of indviduals
Symbolic Interaction Approach
An exaggurated description applied to every person in some catergory
Stereotype
the values, the beliefs, behavior, and material objecs that together forma people's way of life
Culture
the ideas created by members of society
Non Material Culture
the physical things created by members of a society
Material Culture
Anything that carries a particular meaning recognized by people who share a culture
Symbol
A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another
Language
The process by which one generation passes culture to the next.
Cultural Transmission
The theory that states that people percieve world through the cultural lense of language
The Sapir Wolfe Theis
Culturally defined standards that people use do decide what is good and beautiful, and serves as broad guidelines for social living
Values
Statements that people hold to be true
Beliefs
Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its memebrs
Norms