Sociology - CORRECT ANSWER The scientific study of human social life, groups and
societies.
Social Facts - CORRECT ANSWER The aspects of social life
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individuals
Organic solidarity - CORRECT ANSWER The social cohesion that results from the various
parts of a society functioning as an integrated whole.
Social constraint - CORRECT ANSWER The conditioning influence on our behavior of the
groups and societies of which we are members
Anomie - CORRECT ANSWER referring to a situation in which social norms lose their hold
over individual behavior..... When an individual goes astray
Materialist conception of history - CORRECT ANSWER develped by Karl Marx, according to
which material or economic factors have a prime role in determining historical change.
capitalism - CORRECT ANSWER An economic system based on private ownership of wealth,
which is invested and reinvested in order to produce profit.
Social imagination - CORRECT ANSWER The application of imagnative thought to the asking
and answering of sociological questions
Structuration - CORRECT ANSWER The two way process by which we shape our social world
through individual actions and by which we are reshaped by society
Natural Science - CORRECT ANSWER Study of physical features, nature and the ways they
interact and change
Social Science - CORRECT ANSWER The study of social features of humans and the ways they
interact and change.
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER set of statements that seek to explain problems, actions or
behaviors.
symbolic interactionism - CORRECT ANSWER (G.H Mead) emphasizes the role of symbols
and language as core elements of all human interaction.
Symbol - CORRECT ANSWER One item used to stand for or represent another.
functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER the notion that social events can best be explained in
terms of the functions they perform- that is the contributions they make to the community of a
society.
manifest functions - CORRECT ANSWER the functions of a particular social activity that are
known to and intended by the individuals involved in the activity
latent functions - CORRECT ANSWER Functional consequences that are not intended or
recognized by the members of a social system in which they occur
Marxism - CORRECT ANSWER A body of thought deriving its main elements from Karl
Marx's ideas
ideology - CORRECT ANSWER system of ideas characteristic of a group or culture
Feminist theory - CORRECT ANSWER A sociological perspective that emphasizes the
centrality of gender in analyzing the social world and particularly the uniqueness of the
experience of women. There are many strands of feminist theory, but they all share the desire to
explain gender inequalities in society and to work to overcome them.
Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights
of women equal to those of men.
postmodernism - CORRECT ANSWER The belief that society is no longer governed by history
or progress. Postmodern society is highly pluralistic and diverse, with no "grand narrative"
guiding its development.
microsociology - CORRECT ANSWER The study of human behavior in contexts of face-to-face
interaction
Macrosociology - CORRECT ANSWER The study of large-scale groups, organizations, or
social systems
empirical investigation - CORRECT ANSWER factual inquiries carried out in any area of
sociological study
factual questions - CORRECT ANSWER questions that raise issues concerning matters of fact
(rather than theoretical or moral issues)
comparative questions - CORRECT ANSWER Questions concerned with drawing comparisons
between different human societies for the purposes of sociological theory or research.
developmental questions - CORRECT ANSWER Questions that sociologists pose when looking
at the origins and path of development of social institutions from the past to the present.
theoretical questions - CORRECT ANSWER Questions posed by sociologists when seeking to
explain a particular range of observed events. The asking of theoretical questions is crucial to
allowing us to generalize about the nature of social life.
ethnography - CORRECT ANSWER the study of an entire social setting through extended
systematic observation
participant observation - CORRECT ANSWER a research method in which investigators
systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities
pilot study - CORRECT ANSWER A trial run in survey research.
sampling - CORRECT ANSWER studying a part in order to gain information about the whole
representative sample - CORRECT ANSWER sample carefully chosen so that the characteristics
of the participants correspond closely to the characteristics of the larger population
random sampling - CORRECT ANSWER A method of poll selection that gives each person in a
group the same chance of being selected
oral history - CORRECT ANSWER Interviews with people about events they witnessed or
experienced at some point earlier in their lives.
triangulation - CORRECT ANSWER The use of multiple research methods as a way of
producing more reliable empirical data than is available from any single method.
informed consent - CORRECT ANSWER Informing research participants of what is involved in
a study before asking them to participate
debriefing - CORRECT ANSWER giving participants in a research study a complete explanation
of the study after the study is completed
values - CORRECT ANSWER the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help
guide the way you live
norms - CORRECT ANSWER shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific
situations
instinct - CORRECT ANSWER a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a
species and is unlearned
sociobiology - CORRECT ANSWER A theoretical approach that explores ways in which human
biology affects how we create culture.
subculture - CORRECT ANSWER the values and related behaviors of a group that distinguish
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