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