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| understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context |
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| people who share a culture and a territory |
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| the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society |
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| study of society and human behavior |
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| application of the scientific approach to the social world |
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| marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers |
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| marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production |
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| marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production |
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| recurring behaviors or events |
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| degree to which people are tied to their social groups |
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| sociological research for the purpose of making discoveries about life in human groups, not for making changes in those groups |
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| the use of sociology to solve problems, from the micro level of classroom interaction and family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution |
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| applying sociology for the public good; especially the use of the sociological perspective to guide politicians and policy makers |
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| a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related |
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| theoretic perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another |
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| theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium aka functionalism |
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| theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources |
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| an examination of large scale patterns of society |
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| an examination of small-scale patterns of society |
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| one person's actions influencing someone else; usually refers to what people do when they are in one another's presence, but also includes communications at a distance |
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| communication w/e words via gestures, use of space, silence, etc. |
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| statement of how variables are expected to be related |
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| factor thought to be significant for human behavior, which can vary from one case to another |
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| the way in which a researcher measures a variable |
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| procedure that sociologists use to collect data; surveys, participant observation, case studies, secondary analysis, analysis of documents, experiments, and unobtrusive measures |
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| extent to which an operational definition measures what it is intended to measure |
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| extent to which research produces consistent or dependable results |
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| collection of data by having people answer a series of questions |
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| feeling of trust between researchers and the people they are studying |
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| analysis of data that have been collected by other researchers |
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| globalization of capitalism |
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| capitalism becoming the globe's dominant economic system |
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