| A | B |
|---|
| structure | Patterns of interaction among people in social relationships |
| perspective | how you look at something |
| latent | unintended and unrecognized |
| statics | studying social sability and order |
| manifest | intended and recogniized |
| positivism | use of scientific observations and experimentation to study social behavior |
| sociological imagination | sseeing the relationship between events in your own life and events in society |
| Social Darwinism | natural selection will ensure the survival o the fittest society |
| power | ability to control the behavior of others |
| symbolic interactionism | behavior of people toward each other based on mutually understood symbols |
| conflict perspectve | theoretical perspective that emphasizes conflict, competition, change and constraint withn a society |
| proleteriat | those people who work for the bougeoisie |
| organic solidarity | social interdependency based upon highly specialized roles of society members |
| verstehen | understanding other people's social behavior by putting yourself in their place |
| bourgeoisie | those people who own the means for producing wealth |
| dramaturgy | method of viewing human interaction as theatrical performance |
| dysfunction | elements of a society that have negative consequences |
| symbol | anythinng that is chosen to represent something else |
| functionalism | theoretical perspective that emhasizes the contributions of each part of a society |
| sociology | scientific study of social structure |
