PRI. SOCIOLOGY Ch.1-3 Vocabulary

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Sociology

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The study of society.

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Positivism

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Process known as applying the scientific method to the social world

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Sociologist

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Would reform society, making it a better place to live

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The Survival of The Fittest

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The fittest members produce a more advanced society- unless misguided do-gooders get in the way and help the less fit survive

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Social Darwinism

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That societies evolve over time as the fittest adapt to their environment, Darwin applied this to organisms

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Class Conflict

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The engine of human history; key to history; struggle between have and have nots

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Bourgeoisie

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One of the two social classes that are enemies. The capitalist.

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Proletarians

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The exploited workers.

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Capitalist

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• own and control means of production
• achieve wealth through capital
• keep the profit

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Exploited Workers

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• poor, could barley survive
• worked for wages
• vulnerable to displacement by machines or cheap labor

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Social Integration

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The degree to which people are tied to their social group

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Sociological Perspective (imagination)

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Stresses the social contexts in which people live, examines how these contexts influence people’s lives.

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Social location

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The corners in life that people occupy because of where they are located in a society

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Society

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A group of people who share a culture and a territory

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Patterns of Behavior

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Recurring characteristics or events

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Protestant Ethic

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Self-denying approach to life. Protestant being good to go to heaven; not wasting money

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Spirit of capitalism

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the desire to invest capital in order to make more money

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Empiricism

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Is the act of experiencing something with one’s senses

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Methodology

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Is a system of rules, principles, and procedures that guides scientific investigation

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Variable

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Is a characteristics that varies across space, across, time, or from one individual or group to another

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Correlation

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Is a relationship between two variables that occurs regularly

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Controls

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Are ways of excluding the possibility that some other variable might be influencing the relationship

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Theory

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Is a statement that organizes a set of concepts in a meaningful way by showing the relationships among them

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Independent variable

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Is one that influences another variable- it acts as a casual variable

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Dependent variable

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Is one that is influenced by another variable- it is affected by another variable

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Spurious correlation

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Is merely coincidental and does not imply any casual relationship whatever

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Experiment

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Is a method for studying the relationship between two variables under carefully controlled conditions

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Experimental group

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The subjects in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable

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Control group

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The subjects in an experiment who are exposed to all the experimental conditions except the independent variable

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Survey

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Is a method for systematically obtaining standardized information about the attitudes, behavior, or other characteristics of a population

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Sample

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Is a small number of individuals drawn from larger population

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A random sample

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Is one chosen in such a way that every member of the population in a question has the same chance of being selected

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Detached observation

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Is a method in which the researcher remains as aloof as possible, and the subjects may not even know they are begin studied

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Participant observation

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Is a method in which the researcher becomes directly involved in the social behavior under study

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Culture

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Is the complex whole of all learned behavior and the products of behavior including material elements and non material elements shared by all members of society and handed down from generation to generation

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Cultural Universals

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Are practices found in every culture such as marriage, bodily adornment, cooking, dancing, dream interpretation, and funeral ceremonies

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Ethnocentrism

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Is the tendency to judge other cultures by the standards of ones own culture

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Cultural relativism

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Opposite of ethnocentrism. Is the recognition that one culture cannot be arbitrarily judged by the standards of another -see everything in perspective

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Subcultural

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refers to the values, attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles of a social group, which are distinct from, but related to those of the dominant culture of a society -china town

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Counterculture

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Is a subculture whose values, norms, and lifestyles are fundamentally at odds with those of the dominant culture.

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Applies sociology

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Using sociology to solve problems

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Public sociology

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used for the public good; to solve problems

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Functional Analysis

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Is that society is a whole unit, made of interrelated parts that work together; by Comte, Auguste, and Herbert Spencer

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Values

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Socially shared idea that is concise red goo or desirable to which people must strive

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Norms

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Socially shared rules or guidelines that prescribe the behavior that is appropriate in a given situation

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The self

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Is an individual's conscious experience of experience of a distinct personal identity that is separate from all other people and things

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The looking glass self

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Is a self concept derived from a social mirror in which we can observe how other people react to us