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| using sociological principle, social ideas, and ethical consideration to improve society. |
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| views society as composed of diverse groups with conflicting values and interests. |
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| examines broader social structures and society as a whole. |
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| focuses on the day to day interactions of individuals and groups in specific social situations. |
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| a set of assumptions and ideas that guide research questions, methods of analysis and interpretation, and the development of theory. |
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| the use of observation, comparison, experimentation, and the historical method to analyze society. |
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| the study of society in an effort to understand and explain the natural laws that govern its evolution. |
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| Sociological imagination. |
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| quality of mind that provides an understanding of ourselves within the context of the larger society. |
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| the systematic and scientific study of human behavior, social groups, and society. |
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| Structural functionalist perspective |
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| Views society as a system of interdependent and interrelated parts (often referred to simply as the functionalist perspective or functionalism.) |
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| Symbolic interactionist perspective |
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| Views social meaning as arising through the process of social interaction (often referred to as interactionism.) |
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| qualitative techniques that involve intensive observation of a particular person, group, or event. |
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| subjects not exposed to the experimental variable in experiments. |
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| a variable that is changed by the independent variable (the effect.) |
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| Identifies characteristics of an observed phenomenon. Explores possible correlations among two or more phenomenon. |
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| research that measures the effectiveness of a program |
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| a research design that attempts to discover a cause-and-effect relationship between variables. |
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| uses experimental designs, uses most rigorous of all the research designs, allows causal inferences t be made, use of random sample |
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| is a type of research conducted because a problem has not been clearly defined. Exploratory research helps determine the best research design, data collection method and selection of subjects. |
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| a variable that brings about change in another variable. |
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| a quantity having a value intermediate between the values of other quantities; an average, esp. the arithmetic mean. |
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| the number with the highest frequency |
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| the number with the highest frequency |
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| an entire body of people to which the sociologist would like to generalize research findings. |
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| a segment of the population |
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| research using a questionnaire or interview to obtain data. |
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| a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena. |
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