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| Beliefs about members of a group that are usually false, or at least exaggerated, but are the basis of assumptions made about individuals members of the group. |
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| when people treat others different because of their membership. |
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| What does looking through a sociological lens mean? |
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| The way humans look at the world and different aspects of it. |
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| How do you learn to ask good questions? |
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| Ask about all of the information that you do not know about. |
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| overarching frameworks that suggest certain assumptions and assertions about the way the world works, for posing such questions and evaluating evidence related to those questions. |
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| ways of systematically studying these questions. |
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| What is sociology as the study of social contexts? |
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| it is the study of diverse contexts within which society influences individuals. |
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| What is Social Interaction? |
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| The way people act together and how they modify and alter their behavior in response to the presence of other people. |
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| The basic rules of society that help us know what is and is not appropriate to do in any situation. |
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| What is social structure? |
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| The external forces, most notably in the social hierarchies and institutions of society. |
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| What is a social hierarchy? |
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| it is a set of important social relationships that provide individuals and groups with different kinds of status, in which some individuals and groups are elevated above others. |
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| What are the institutions of society? |
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| Longstanding and important practices (like marriage, family, education, and economic markets) |
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| What is the difference between Industrialization and Urbanization? |
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| Industrialization is the growth of factories and large-scale goods production and Urbanization is the growth of cities. |
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| Those with a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile and all surrounding areas that have an overall density of at least 500 people per square mile |
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| Organized associations of workers (created in order to protect and fight for their rights |
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| What are social movements? |
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| Are marked by collective action aimed at bringing about some kind of change in society |
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| What are units of analysis? |
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| These are pieces of a topic that a researcher bites off when he or she studies it. |
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| Why are units of analysis important? |
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| They shape the explanations sociologists provide |
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| What is Interdisciplinary research? |
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| An increasingly central part of learning about any topic in the social sciences |
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| What is sociological imaginations? |
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| the way we take into account how our individual lives are impacted by social context |
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| What is the distinction between quantitative research and Qualitative research? |
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| Quantitative is research that relies on statistical of data and Qualitative is research that relies on words, observations, or pictures as data. |
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| The belief that one factor or phenomenon is leading to changes in another, that cant be substantiated with the data accessible to us |
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| it refers to what we think we can know about the world. |
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| When we use universal standards to advance truth claims, determining cause and effect, and generalizing from part to whole |
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| How they make sense of social reality and navigate social interaction |
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| What is theoretical traditions? |
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| Conceptual frameworks that sociologists use to imagine and make sense of the world. |
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| The belief systems that shape sociologists views of and perspectives on the world we study |
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| What are the code of ethics? |
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| a set of guidelines that outline what is considered moral and acceptable behavior. |
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| What is the distinction between dependent and independent variable? |
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| a dependent variable is what we predict will fluctuate in relation to other variables and an independent variable is what we predict exist separates from them |
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| What is Representative sampling? |
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| When they make sure that the characteristics of their sample reflect those of the total population they are studying |
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| What is comparative-historical perspective? |
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| a method of analysis examining a social phenomenon over time or in different places |
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| What are cross-national comparisons? |
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| explaining the differences between countries, such as understanding why some outcome is observed in one country and not another |
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| What does sociologists call correlation? |
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| Sociologists interested in understanding the world or informing social policy often want to go beyond simply documenting that two social phenomenon appear together. in other words they "co-vary" with each other |
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| What is spurious relationship? |
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| When two factors seem to move in the same direction |
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| What is empirical generalizability? |
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| they apply conclusions from their findings to a larger population |
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| What is theoretical generalizability? |
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| they apply conclusions from their findings to larger sociological processes. |
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