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| sociology | systematic study of human society |
| global perspective | study of larger world and our society's place in it |
| high-income countries | nations w/productive economic systems and people have relatively high incomes |
| middle-income countries | nations w/moderately productive economic systems and people have incomes about the global average |
| low-income countries | nations w/less productive economic systems and people are poor |
| positivism | way of understanding based on science |
| theory | statement of how and why specific facts are related |
| theoretical paradigm | basic image of society that guides thinking and research |
| structural-functional paradigm | framework for building theory that sees society as complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability |
| social structure | any relatively stable pattern of social behavior |
| social functions | consequences of any social pattern for the operation of society as a whole |
| manifest functions | recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern |
| latent functions | unrecognized and unintended consequences of any social pattern |
| social dysfunctions | social pattern's undesirable consequences for the operation of society |
| social-conflict paradigm | a framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change |
| macro-level orientation | concern w/broad patterns that shape society as a whole |
| micro-level orientation | close-up focus on social interaction in specific situations |
| symbolic-interaction paradigm | framework for building theory that sees society as the product of everyday interactions of individuals |
| science | logical system that bases knowledge on direct, systematic observation |
| concept | mental construct that represents some part of the world in a simplified form |
