Definitions Flashcards

(64 cards)

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What is the study of people in small groups?

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Micro Sociology

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What is the study of people and how they relate to society?

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Sociology

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Who is the father of Sociology?

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Augiste Comte

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What is the study of large groups and entire societies?

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Macro Sociology

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What is a group of people that form a group?

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Aggregate

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Status, class, party

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Max Weber’s Social Stratification (3)

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A social group with intense intimacy

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Primary Group

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Group that shares the same goals but looser ties

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Secondary Group

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Emotional intensity of the attachments in a group

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Social Solidarity

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10
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Unfriendly interaction between groups

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Social Conflict

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A variable the researchers have direct control over

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Independent Variable

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The idea that society is a system

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Functional Perspective

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Two elements in a society that are in conflict

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Conflict Perspective

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One variable effects another variable

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Causation

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Where people of different ages are studied at one particular time

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Cross Sectional Studies

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Where people are followed over a long period of time

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Longitudinal Studies

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The number or amount of something

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Quantitative

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Similar in structure of organization

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Qualitative

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A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set

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Census

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Set of cases or people chosen from a large group and focused on

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Sample

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21
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When a person along with several others, is studied in depth

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Case Study

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Survey a sample of people to gather information

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Interviews

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People who share the same geographic area

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Populations

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Something mailed out using sampling methods

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Survey

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Average
Mean
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The number that is repeated the most in a string of numbers
Mode
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The number in the middle of a data set
Median
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Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
SMSA
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80% of wealth is controlled by 20% of the people
80/20 Rule
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Collect data, create hypothesis, test theory, revise
Four Steps of Scientific Method
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Group of people in an area with social ties
Society
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Unequal distribution of rewards - social ladder
Stratification
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People who share the same position
Classes
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An upward change in the social system
Upward Mobility
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A downward change in the social system
Downward Mobility
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The rank of a person in the society
Status
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Position given but those who do not achieve things on their own
Ascribed Status
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Position gained by achievement
Achieved Status
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A word for a social link
Tie
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Network full of holes where ties are weak
Cosmopolitan Network
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Ideals about what is desirable behavior
Values
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Set of manners and actions part of everyday society
Folkways
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Customs that are important to the culture
Mores
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A rule created by the government
Law
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Sum of all human creations
Culture
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Expectations of a person's behavior based on their role
Role
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Negative attitudes and thoughts about a particular group
Prejudice
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Where a person thinks their race is the best
Ethnocentrism
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Meaning of a trait depends on cultural background
Cultural Relativism
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How a person learns how to live in their environment
Socialization
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Showing the ways boys and girls are socialized
Gender Socialization
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Prejudice of Jews
Anti-Semitism
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Instability in culture because of erosion of morals
Anomie
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When material is taken in and made to fit with existing information
Assimilation
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The change made to one's mind from the process of assimilation
Accommodation
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Creation of standard
Normative Order
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Deviance happens when people are blocked from achieving goals in legitimate ways
Merton's Anomie Theory
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When a person's self-esteem is based how others see them
Looking Glass Self
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Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx wrote
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Amount of all children that all women could have in their childbearing years
Total Fertility Rate
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Death of babies that are one year or younger
Infant Mortality Rates
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How populations change
Demographic Transition Theory
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When small cities group together
Urban Sprawl
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Egoistic, Altruistic, Anomic, Fatalistic
Durkheim's Forms of Suicide (4)