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| sociological perspective | understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social context |
| society | people who share a culture and a territory |
| social location | the group memberships people have because of their location in history & society |
| social sciences | the intellectual & academic disciplines designed to understand the social world objectively |
| generalization | statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group |
| patterns | recurring characteristics or events |
| common sense | those things that "everyone knows" are true |
| scientific method | using objective systematic observations to test theories |
| positivism | the application of the scientific approach to the social world |
| sociology | the scientific study of society and human behavior |
| class conflict | Marx's term for the struggle between capitalists and workers |
| bourgeoisie | Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means of production |
| proletariat | Marx's terms for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production |
| social integration | the degree to which people feel apart of social groups |
| value free | view that a sociologist's personal values should not influence research |
| values | standards by which people define what is desirable, good or not |
| objectivity | total neutrality |
| replication | repeating a study in order to test findings |
| subjective meaning | meaning people give their own behavior |
| basic/ pure sociology | research whose purpose is to make discoveries about life in groups not make changes |
| applied sociology | use of sociology to solve problems |
| theory | general statement about how some parts of the world fit together & how they work |
| symbolic interactionism | theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of symbols that people use to estab. meaning |
| functional analysis | theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various parts each w/ a specific function |
| conflict theory | theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups competing for scarce resources |
| macro level analysis | examination of large scale patterns of society |
| micro level analysis | examination of small scale patterns in society |
| social interaction | what people do when they are in one another's presence |
| nonverbal interaction | communication through gesture w/o words |
| globalization | extensive interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism |
