unit 1 key terms

Question 1

using sociology to solve problems

Answer 1

applied sociology

Question 2

research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups

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basic sociology

Question 3

describe what is in the social world without evaluating it ; based on facts, not opinion

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empirical statement

Question 4

examination of large-scale patterns of society (functionalists, conflict theories)

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macro sociology

Question 5

examination of small scale patterns of sociology (symbolic interactions)

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micro sociology

Question 6

expresses a value judgment about whether a situation is desirable or undesirable ; expresses a judgment about what ought to be

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normative statements

Question 7

Durkheim’s term for a group’s patterns of behavior

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social facts

Question 8

the awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society

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sociological imagination

Question 9

the organized means each society develops to meet its basic needs (family, government, ,beliefs, economics, education)

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social institutions

Question 10

theory for explaining how cultures construct and maintain their realities using signs ans symbols ; argues that people learn to behave in their social world through interaction with it

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social reality

Question 11

a group of people who share a culture and a territory

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society

Question 12

the special point of view of sociology that sees general patterns of society in the lives of particular people

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sociological perspective

Question 13

the scientific study of human behavior in groups

Answer 13

sociology

Question 14

when an individual (ex : culture, religious) is denied access to important positions and symbols of economic, religious or political power.

Answer 14

marginalization