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| The systematic study of human society. |
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| Seeing the general in the particular. |
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| Showed that social forces are at work even in such an intensely personal action such as suicide. |
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| The study of the larger world and our society's place in it. |
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| The nations with the highest over-all standards of living. |
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| Nations with a standard of living about average for the world as a whole. |
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| Nations with a low standard of living in which most people are poor. |
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| New industrial economy, The growth of cities, Political change. |
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| Coined the term Sociology in 1838. |
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| A scientific approach to knowlege based on positive facts as opposed to mere speculation. |
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| A statement of how and why specific facts are related. |
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| A basic image of society that guides thinking and research. |
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| The structural-functional approach |
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| A framework for building the theory that sees the society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. |
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| Any relatively stable pattern of social behavior. |
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| Expanded our understanding of social function. |
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| Any social pattern that may disrupt the operation of society. |
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| An arena of inequality that generates conflict and change. |
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| A point of view that focuses on inequality and conflict between women and men. |
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| Support of social equality for women and men. |
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| A point of view that focuses on inquality and conflict between people of different racial and ethnic categories. |
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| The symbolic-interaction approach. |
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| A framework for building theory that sees society as the product of the everyday interactions of individuals. |
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| A mental construct that represents some aspect of the world in a simplified form. |
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| A concept whose value changes from case to case. |
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| A procedure for determining the value of a variable in a specific case. |
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| Consistency in measurement. |
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| Actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure. |
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| Approaching an issue from a male perspective. |
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| Seeing the world from a female perspective. |
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| Occurs when sociologists gather data only from men but then use that info to draw conclusions about all people. |
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| A systematic plan for doing research. |
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| A research method for investigating cause and effect under highly controled conditions. |
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| A research method in which subjects respond to a series of statements or questions on a questionnaire or in an interview. |
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| A research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine. |
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| Refers to people who interact in a defined teritory and share a culture. |
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| Personal disorientation when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life. |
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| A system of symbols that allows people to communicate with one another. |
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| Not equality of condition but equality of opporitunity. |
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| Individual achievement and personal success |
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| Encourages competition so that each person's rewards should reflect personal merit. |
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| Making money and enjoying what it will buy. |
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| Doers who get the job done. |
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| Practicality and efficiency |
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| Valuing the practical over theoretical doing and dreaming. |
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| Expecting scientists to solve problems and to improve our lives. |
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| Favoring individual initiative over collective conformity. |
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| Racism and group superiority |
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| Judging others according to gender, race, ethinicity, and social class. |
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| Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members. |
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| Norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance. |
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| Norms for routine or casual interaction. |
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| Knowledge that people use to make a way of life in their surroundings. |
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| The production of goods using advanced sources of energy to drive large machinery. |
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| The production of information using computer technology. |
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| Cultural patterns that distinguish a society's elite. |
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| Cultural patterns that are widespread among a society's population. |
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| Patterns that set apart some segment of a society's population. |
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| Perspective recognizing the cultural diversity of the U.S. and promoting equal standing for all cultural traditions. |
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| Cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society. |
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| The fact that some cultural elements change more quickly than others, disrupting a cultural system. |
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| The process of creating new cultural elements. |
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| The practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture. |
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| The practice of judging a culture by it's own standards. |
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| Traits that are part of every known culture. |
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| A theoretical approach that explores ways in which human biology addects how we create culture. |
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| The lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture. |
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| A person's fairly consistent patterms of acting, thinking, and feeling. |
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| Freud's model of personality (three parts) |
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| The human's basic drives. |
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| A person's consious efforts to balance innate pleasure-seeking drives with the demands of society. |
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| The cultural values and norms internalized by an individual. |
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| The part of an individual's personality composed of self-awareness and self-image. |
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| People, such as parents, who have special importance for socialization. |
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| Widespread cultural norms and values we use as a reference in evaluating ourselves. |
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| Advances learning and creates a sense of confidence in children. |
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| A socia group whose members have interests, social position, and age in common. |
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| Anticipatory socialization |
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| Learning that helps a person achieve a desired position. |
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| The means for delivering impersonal communications to a vast audience. |
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| The study of aging and the elderly. |
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