Intro to Sociology Chapter 1 Flashcards

A group of people who shape their lives in aggregated and patterned ways.

Disciplines that use the scientific method to examine the social world.

<p>A way of looking at the world through a sociological lens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approaching the world without preconceptions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sense of disorientation when entering a radically new social environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A quality that links individual circumstances and larger social forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Face-to-face and small-group interactions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Large-scale social structures.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abstract propositions that explain the social world.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of assumptions and theories that shape understanding of social reality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory that sense perceptions are the valid source of knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A procedure for acquiring knowledge through observation and experiment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The application of evolution theory to the study of society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A paradigm assuming society functions as a unified whole.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social bonds in premodern societies based on shared beliefs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Societies that depend on agriculture for support and sustenance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social bonds in modern societies based on difference and interdependence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Normlessness; a term describing alienation due to weakened social bonds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The degree of integration within a society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The holy, divine, or supernatural.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The ordinary, mundane, or everyday.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An intense energy in shared events where people feel part of something larger.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The shared moral beliefs that foster social solidarity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Based on scientific experimentation or observation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A social institution that remains stable over time to meet societal needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A disturbance or undesirable consequence in the social system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The obvious, intended functions of a social structure.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The less obvious, perhaps unintended functions of a social structure.</p> Signup and view all the answers