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Details Title The Sociological Perspective Description In Conflict & Order 12th ed. by Eitzen...Ch 1 Total Cards 18 Subject Sociology Created 07/18/2010

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Term sociology	Definition discipline concerned with the systematic study of social organizations
Term social determinism	Definition assumption that human behavior is explained exclusively by social factors
Term human agency	Definition when individuals, acting alone or with others, shape, resist, challenge, and sometimes change the social institutions that impinge on them
Term socialogical imagination	Definition the view that individual troubles are inextricably linked to social forces
Term positivism	Definition scientific model for understanding reality
Term social facts	Definition Durkheim's term referring to the forces outside individuals thay constrain them in their behaviors
Term false consciousness	Definition in marxian theory, the idea that the oppressed may hold beliefs damaging to their interest
Term class consciousness	Definition Karl Marx's term that refers to the recognition by people in a similar economic situation of a common interest
Term class conflict	Definition Karl Marx proposed that the owners of capital are locked in conflict with exploited workers
Term charisma	Definition extraordinary attributes to an individual that anables the possessor to lead and inspire without the legal authority to do so
Term socialogical theory	Definition set of ideas that explain a range of human behavior and a variety of social and societal events
Term value neutrality	Definition attempt by scientists to be absolutely free of bias in their research
Term sample	Definition representative part of a population
Term variable	Definition an attitude, behavior, or condition that can vary in magnitude from case to case
Term control group	Definition group of subjects in an experiment who are not exposed to the independent variable but are similar in all other respecs to the group exposed to the independent variable
Term experimental group	Definition group of subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable, in contrast to the control group, which is not
Term dependent variable	Definition variable that is influenced by the effect of another variable
Term independent variable	Definition variable that affects another variable

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