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| the ability to see the connections between our personal experience and the larger forces of history |
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| coined the term social imagination |
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| complex group of interdependent positions that, together, perform a social role and reproduce themselves over time |
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| branch of sociology that believes the soicla world can be described and predicted by certain describable relationships; social world can studied the same as natural world. |
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| created Marxism, the basis of communism which stated all problems lied in social class differences |
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| workers or working-class people, regarded collectively (often used with reference to Marxism) |
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| the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production according to Marxism |
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| (especially in Marxist theory) a way of thinking that prevents a person from perceiving the true nature of their social or economic situation. |
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| founder of positivist sociology; argued that division of labor had social and moral affects as well as economic |
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| microlevel theory in which shared meanings, orientations, and assumptions form the basic motivations behind people's actions |
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| the idea that competing interests is the basic, animating force of social change and society in general |
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| examines the way in which power relationship are defined by the basis of gender; marxist theory without class/economy but gender |
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| theory by Goffman; view that social life as essentially a theatrical performance |
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| sum of beliefs, traditions, and practices; that which is not the natural environment around us |
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| belief that one's culture is superior to others and views all other cultures solely from their perspective |
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| includes technology; all that is part of our constructed, man made world |
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| values, beliefs, behaviors, and social norms |
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| system of concepts and relationships; an understanding of cause and effect |
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| taking into account cultural differences across cultures w/o passing judgement |
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| process of learning what is "right, proper, and accepted"; process of learning to be a functional member of society |
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| family, schools, peers, and media |
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| institutions in which one is totally immersed and that controls all the basics of day to day life and existance |
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| considers most of everyday activity to be the acting out of socially defined categories |
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| state in which an individual is born; involuntary |
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| category that stands out as most important or overrides others |
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| status in which one enters; voluntary |
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| collects information from social world through interactions with subjects |
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| seeks information about the social world that can be or is in numerical form |
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| type of data collection method typically used in qualitative research |
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| Correlation versus causation |
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| correlation (association) does not = to causation (x leads to y) |
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| factor changing the experimental groups circumstances |
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| measure measures what you intend it to |
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| how likely one is to obtain the same results in different experiments |
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