Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Exam 1
First 4 Chapters
16
Sociology
Undergraduate 1
02/04/2009

Additional Sociology Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
research
Definition
the process of making appropriate empirical observations or measurements
Term
sociological imagination
Definition
ability to see the link between incidents in the lives of individuals and large social forces
Term
sociology
Definition
the scientific study of the patterns and processes of human social relations
Term
social sciences
Definition
the scientific fields devoted to the study of human behavior, including sociology, psychology, economics, political science, and anthropology
Term
concepts
Definition
names used to identify some set or class of things that are said to be alike. also a building block of theories
Term
group
Definition
two or more persons who maintain a stable pattern of social relations over a significant period of time
Term
aggregate
Definition
a collection of people lacking social relations, for example, pedestrians waiting for a walk light
Term
primary groups
Definition
groups whose members have a close intimate emotional attachment to other members of the group
Term
secondary groups
Definition
groups whose members have only limited emotional attachments to one another
Term
social solidarity
Definition
the density and emotional intensity of attachments within a group
Term
social conflict
Definition
unfriendly interactions between group
Term
social network
Definition
a pattern of social relationships or links among some set of social units
Term
social relationship
Definition
repeated actions between social units, or the persistence of stable, shared features among units
Term
unobtrusive measure
Definition
techniques used to measure behavior without disturbing the behavior of the subjects
Term
operationalize
Definition
to select measures of concepts in order to make it possible to perform observational operations on them
Term
hypothesis
Definition
a statement about the expected relationship between or among observable measures of concepts
Supporting users have an ad free experience!