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| A statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one another |
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| A theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another |
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| functional analysis[fuctionalism] |
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| a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a fuction that, when fulfilled,contributres to society's equilibrium |
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| a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources |
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| an examination of large scale patterns of society |
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| an examination of small-scale patters of society |
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| what people do when they are in one another's presence |
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| communication without words through gestures, use of space, and silence, and so on |
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| a statment of how variables are expected to be related to one another, often according to predictions from a theory |
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| a factor though to be significant for human behavior, which can vary (chang) from one case to another |
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| the way in which a researcher measures a variable |
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| one of seven procedures that sociologists use to collect data: surveys, participant observation, case studies, secondary analysis, documents, experiments, and unobtrusive measures |
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| the extent to which an operational dfiniton measures what it is intended to mesure |
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| the extent to which research produces consitent or dependable results |
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| the collection of data by having people answer a series of questions |
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| a target group to be studied |
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| the individuals intended to represent the population to be studied |
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| a sample in which everyone in the target population has the same chance of being included in the study |
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| a sample from selected subgroups of the target population in which everyone has an equal chance of being included in the research |
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| people who respond to a survey, either in interviews or by self-administered questionnaires |
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| questions that are followed by a list of possible answers to be selevted by the respondents |
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| questions that respondents answer in their own words |
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| a feeling of trust between researchers and the pople they are studying |
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| research in which the researcher participates in a research setting while observing what is happening in that setting |
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| an analysis of a sigle event, situation, or individual |
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| the analysis of data that have been collected by other researchers |
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| in its marrow sense, written sources that provide data; in its extended sense, archival material of any sort, including photographs, movies,Cds, DVDs, and so on |
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| the use of control and experimental groups and dependet and independent variables to test causation |
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| the subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the independedt variable |
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| the subjects in an experiment who are not exposed to the independent variable |
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| a factor that causes a chang in another variable, called the dependent variable |
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| a factor in an experiment that is changed by an independent variable |
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| ways of observing people so they do not know they are being studied |
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| the view that a socioligist's personal valuesor biases should not influence social research |
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| the standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly |
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| value neutrality in research |
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| the repetiton of a study in prder to test its findings |
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| sociology being used for the public good; especially the sociological perspective (of how things are related to one onother) guiding politicains and policy makers |
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| the extensive interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism |
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