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| Looking at people's behavior and attitudes in the context of the social forces that shape them |
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| Broad changes in society influencing our lives profoundly |
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| Looking at people's behaviors and attitudes in the context of the social forces that shape them. |
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| Describes the process of becoming aware of ourselves by evaluating our own identity in relation to other people. |
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One components of a social problem, some aspect of society that can be measured or experienced. |
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| A component of social problems. the concern that a significant number of people have about the objective condition. |
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| a shared belief about whether something is good or bad |
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| The ability to get ones way despite resistance. |
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| The abortion drug as abortion drops the use of the drug approved in 2000 rises |
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| The ideas common to our society or to some group with in our society - to make sense of our experiences in life. |
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| Case studies, surveys, experiements, and field studies |
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| Used to gather in depth information on some specific case. |
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| Focus on a sample of the group you want to study. |
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| Able to apply your findings to people who belong to the group but who are not in your sample. |
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| A sample in which everyone in your population has an equal chance of being selected. |
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| Divide people into groups and experiment on one group and compare the results. |
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| A group you are using to compare expierements. |
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| Field studies/ Participant Observation. |
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| Researchers go into the setting they want to experience or learn about. |
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| The experimental group that does not have an experience applied to them. |
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| Ask people the tyoes of topics you want to explore. |
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| Ask every person the same question. |
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| Will let people talk in depth about their experiences concerning different topics. |
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| Paper-Pencil Questionaire |
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| Ask people to write answers to either open ended or close ended questions. |
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| Written sources or records. |
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| Observe what is occuring in some setting. |
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| Discrimination against people on the basis of age; this concept is not limited to older people. |
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| An economic system that is based on the private ownership of the means of production, the pursuit of profit and market competition. |
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| Owners of the means of production (land, factory, tools...) who control the labor of workers. |
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| An approach to research that originated with the department of sociologly of the University of Chicago in the 1920s: It emphasized participant observation, Symbolic interactionalism, and seeing things from an insiders point of view. |
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| Views society as a system in competition and conflict, each group pursues their own interest, often exploiting others. Social problems come from exploitation and resistance to it. |
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| Argues that women are biologically different than men. |
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In terms of social security- The number of workers comapred to the number of recipiants.
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| The view that scociety prevents disruption by having the elderly. |
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Interference with the functioning of one part of the system or disruption of the stability, or equilibrim of the entire system by one part of the social system.
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| Branch of feminism which states that partriarchy is baed for the envirnment. |
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| A sociological theory that aims to transform society as well as study it;argues that women need to be aware of their oppression in order to change it. |
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| The contribution of a part of its system or people's actions that contibute to the equilibrium of a socal system. |
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| Veiws society am groupof interconnected parts that will help to maintain the stability of the system. Each part has a specific function. When one fails there is a social problem. |
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The communities or groups in general that people take into account, as they consider a course of action.
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| Stereotyping or putting a tag on someone and treating him or her accordingly. |
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| The unintend consequences of people's actions, that disrupt the equilibrium. |
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| The unintended consequences of people actions. |
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| Branch of feminism which cause people to retain people are created equal and deserves equal rights- oppression exists because of social culture. |
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| Cooley's idea that our self images are dependant on what we think others think of us. |
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| The consequences of people's actions that are expected from a certian action or policy |
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| Rule by men understood by women as the root of gender equality. |
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| The study of the conection between human conciousness and social life, between social life and how people think and talk about it. |
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| Feminism which believes that something must be changed at its core in order to dissolve patriarchy. |
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| Social construction of reality |
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| The attempt to make sense of life by giving meaning to ones experiences |
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| the interelations between the parts of subunits of society or some other social system. |
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| items of social life to which we gave meaning that qwe communicate with one another with signs, gestures, words. |
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| views society as consisting of the patterns common to a group of people. social problems are issues ople have decided were social problems |
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| taking the role of the other |
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| putting oneself in someone elses shoes to try to see things as that person see them. |
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| An explanation of how two or more concepts such as age and suicide are related to one another. |
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