Vocab Terms

Question 1

social networks

Answer 1

the ties between people, groups, and orginizations

Question 2

society

Answer 2

a large group of people that live in the same area and participate in a common culture

Question 3

sociology

Answer 3

study of societies and the social worlds that individuals inhabit within them

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globalization

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the increased flow of goods, money, ideas, and people across international borders

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sociological imagination

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the capacity to think systematically about how many things we experience as “personal” problems

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stereotypes

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beliefs about members of a group that are usually false but are the basis of assumptions about individuals or groups

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discrimination

Answer 7

any behavior, practice, or policy that harms, exculdes, or disadvantages individuals on the basis of their group membership

Question 8

social theories

Answer 8

over achieving frameworks that suggest certain assumptions and assertions about the way the world works

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research methods

Answer 9

ways of systematically studying theories

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norm

Answer 10

rule of society that helps us know what is and is not appropriate

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social interaction

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the way people act together and the way they modify behaviors, thoughts, and feelings

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social structure

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external forces that restrict thoughts, feelings

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institution

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framework of daily life made up of longstanding and important rules and regulations

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social context

Answer 14

our environment

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social institiution

Answer 15

patterns of behavior and customs made up of longstanding and important rules, expecatations, and sanctions

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social heirarchies

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some groups are elevated above others

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power

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the ability to influence the behavior of others

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privelege

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access to opportunitites and claims to rewards

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structuralism

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where youre from limits you

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agency

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free will, your outcome is not affected by your social structure

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habitus

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seemingly innate attitudes and ways of behaving

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conflict paradigm

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attempt of individuals and groups to dominate each other and avoid being dominated

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symbolic interactionist

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how shared meaning and social powers develop in the course of social interaction

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structural functionalism

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what functions the many elements of the system provide for the whole system

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feminist paradigm

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highlights how previous images of social reality have came from the experiences of men, also encourages view point for women

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critical race theory

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explores disadvantages of certain race group and offers a different vantage point to view and understand society

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null hypothesis

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no relationship between cause and affect of hypothesis

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macrotheory

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big picture of societies

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microtheory

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understanding society at the individual or small group level

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positivism

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rational proof or disproof of scientific assertions; conte

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interest conversion

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theory that major group interest will only support minority interest if they stand to gain something from action

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postmodernism

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denial of the possibility of social science

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critical realism

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defining reality as that which can be seen to have an effect