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| The view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultral norms, and societal values |
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| Looks at society as a competition for limited resources |
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| An extension of symbolic interaction theory which proposes that reality is what humans cognitively construct it to be |
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| A group's shared practices, values, and beliefs |
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| A technique sociologists use in whcih they view society through the metaphore of theatrical performance |
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| A stable in which all parts of a healthy society work together properly |
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| Social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society |
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| The process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior |
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| The part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity |
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| The organized and generalized attitude of a social group |
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| An attempt to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change |
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| A wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society |
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| Sought consequences of a social process |
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| The study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups |
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| Philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formaulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them |
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| in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data |
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| Statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants |
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| An error of treating an abstract concept as though it has a real, material existence |
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| Specific individuals that impact a person's life |
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| The laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life |
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| Patterns and beliefs and bahviors focused on meeting social needs |
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| The social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion |
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| A group of people who live in a defined geographical area who interact with one another and who share a common culture |
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| The ability to understand how your own past relates to that of other people, as well as to history in general and societal structures in particular |
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| The systematic study of society and social interaction |
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| A theoretical perspective through which scholars examine the relationship of individuals within their society by studying their communciation (language and symbols) |
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| A proposed explination about social interactions or society |
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| A German word that means to understand in a deep way |
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