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Ch. 1 Sociology voc.
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Sociology
12th Grade
08/17/2010

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sociological perspective
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understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context
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society
Definition
people who share a territory and culture
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social location
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the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society
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science
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the application of systematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained by those methods
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natural sciences
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the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to explain and predict events in our natural environments
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social sciences
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the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively by means of controlled and repeated observation
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patterns
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recurring characteristics or events
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common sense
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those things that everyone knows are true
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scientific method
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the scientific organ of inductive reason
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positivism
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the application of the scientific approach to the social world
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sociology
Definition
the study of society and human behavior
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class conflict
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Marx's term for the struggle between management and workers
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bourgeoisie
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Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production
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proletariat
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Marx's term for the working class
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social integration
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the degree to which members of a group or a society feel united by shared values and other social bonds; also known as social cohesion
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value free
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the view that a sociologist’s personal values or biases should not influence social research
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values
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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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objective
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totally neutral
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replication
Definition
repeating a study in order to determine the results
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Verstehen
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a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as “to have insight into someone’s situation”
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Verstehen
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a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as “to have insight into someone’s situation”
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subjective meanings
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the meanings that people give their own behavior
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social facts
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Durkheim's term for a group's pattern of behavior
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basic sociology
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sociological research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups
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applied sociology
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the use of sociology to solve problems --- from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution
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theory
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a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work
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symbolic interactionism
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a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people sue to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another
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functional analysis
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society is a whole unit, made up of interrelated parts that work together
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macro level analysis
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an examination of large-scale patterns of society
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micro level analysis
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an examination of small scale society
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social interaction
Definition
what people do when they are in one another's presence
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nonverbal interaction
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nonverbal reaction
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globalization
Definition
the breaking down of national boundaries because of advances in communication, trade, and travel
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globalization of capitalism
Definition
globalization of capitalism
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