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Sociological Perspective

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An approach to understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context

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Society

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The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community

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Social Location

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The position of an individual in a given society and culture

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Science

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The systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained

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Scientific Method

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The process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation

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Sociology

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the study of the development,structure, and functioning of human society

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Class conflict

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The economic antagonism and political tension that exists among social classes because of clashing interest, competition for limited resources, and inequalities of power in the socioeconomic hierarchy

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Bourgeoisie

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the middle class, typically with reference to its perceives materialistic values of conventional altitudes

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Proletariat

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workers or working-class people, regarded collectively as

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Social Integration

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the process during which newcomers or minorities are incorporated into the social structure of the host society

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Patterns of Behavior

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a recurrent way of acting by an individual or group toward a given object or in a given situation

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nothing

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Max Weber

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A German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant ethic,” relating Protestantism to capitalism, and for his ideas on bureaucracy

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WEB Dubois

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the first sociologist to articulate the agency of the oppressed

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Jane Adams

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Crated a sociology that places ethics at the center of its analysis of society and social life

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C Wright Mills

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Identifying questions, themes, and ideas that pertained to all of society and distinguishing them from more individualistic issues

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Basic Sociology

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The study of social life, social change and the social causes and consequences of human behavior

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Applied Sociology

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the application of sociological ideas,concepts, theories and models to address everyday problems or situations

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Public Sociology

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Sociological discipline that emphasizes expanding boundaries of sociology in order to engage with non-academic audiences

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Theory

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A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent to the thing to be explained

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Symbolic Interactionism

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the view of social behavior that emphasizes linguistic or gestural communication and its subjective understanding, especially the role of language in the formation of the child as a social being

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George Herbert Mead

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One of the key figures in the development of pragmatism

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Functional Analysis

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It stipulates that society is a complex organism and is made up of several parts or functions

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Robert Merton

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American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology.

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Conflict Theory
A social theory that posits that society is in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources
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Macro-level analysis
Addresses peace, conflict, and violence in large populations
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Micro-level analysis
The smallest unit of analysis in the social sciences is an individual in their social setting
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Social interaction
The way people talk and act with each other
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Nonverbal Interaction
The transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact, body language,social distance, touch, voice, physical environments/appearance, and use of objects
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Hypothesis
A supposition a proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation
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Variable
Not consistent or having a fixed pattern; liable to change
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Operational Definition
A detailed explanation of the technical terms and measurements used during data collection
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Research Method
The strategies, processes or techniques utilized in the collection of data or evidence for analysis on order to uncover new information or create better understanding of a topic
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Validity
the quality of being logically or factually sound
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Reliability
The extent to which, if you repeated the research, you would get the same results
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Survey
A research method that collects data from respondents through a series of questions by interview or questionnaire
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Population
A group of human beings with some beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religon
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Sample
a smaller group of people who will be studied, taken from a broader target population
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Random Sample
when a researcher randomly selects participants for research from a list, out of a hat or randomly-generated choice by computer
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Respondents
a person replying to questions in a survey or interview
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Closed Ended Questions
those with a limited number of possible responses, often “yes” or “no”
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Objectivity
Judgments based in facts and undistorted by bias, emotion, or prejudice
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Interviewer Bias
An interviewer;s expectations, beliefs, and prejudices as they influence the interview process and the interpretation of the data it provides
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Open Ended Questions
Those that provide respondents with a question prompt and provide them a space in which to construct their own response
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Rapport
the ease of a relationship between people and in the case of sociological research, between a researcher and their subjects
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Participant observation
a research methodology where the researcher is immersed in the day-to-day activities of the participants
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Case Study
Where sociologists investigate in great detail a particular individual or group, as opposed to trying to gather a representative sample from the target population
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Generalizability
the degree to which you can apply the results of your study to a broader context
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Secondary analysis
the use of existing research data to find answer to a question that was different from the original work
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Analysis of Documents
the process of reviewing or evaluating documents both printed and electronic in a methodical manner
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Experimental Group
The group in an experiment that receives the variable being tested
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Control group
A group in the experiment which a variable is not being tested
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Independent variable
a variable that stands alone and isn’t changes by the other variables you are trying to measure
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Dependent Variable
The variable that depends on other factors that are measured
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Unobtrusive variable
A method of making observations without the knowledge of those being observed
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Globalization
An ongoing process that involves interconnected changes in the economic, cultural, social, and political spheres of society
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Globalization of Capitalism
It involves the flow of goods, services, capital, and labor across national boundaries, shaping economies and societies on a global scale

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