Sociology Chapter 1 Flashcards

imagination

interact

<p>identify similarities in how social groups respond to social pressure</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the process of simultaneously analyzing the behavior of an individual and the society that shapes that behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the ability to understand how your own past relates to that of other people, as well as to history in general and societal structures in particular</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Economics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Karl Marx</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>whether sociological studies can predict or improve society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A large survey</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>their culture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the view that social researchers should strive for subjectivity as they worked to represent social processes, cultural norms, and societal values</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the scientific study of social patterns</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>in-depth interviews, focus groups, and/or analysis of content sources as the source of its data</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>statistical methods such as surveys with large numbers of participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a German word that means to understand in a deep way</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symbolic interactionism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Karl Marx</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Herbert Blumer</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Theatrical roles</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Participant observation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a theory that looks at society as a competition for limited resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a technique sociologists use in which they view society through the metaphor of theatrical performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a stable state in which all parts of a healthy society are working together properly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>social patterns that have undesirable consequences for the operation of society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the part a recurrent activity plays in the social life as a whole and the contribution it makes to structural continuity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a theoretical approach that sees society as a structure with interrelated parts designed to meet the biological and social needs of individuals that make up that society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>attempts to explain large-scale relationships and answer fundamental questions such as why societies form and why they change</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the unrecognized or unintended consequences of a social process</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a wide-scale view of the role of social structures within a society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>sought consequences of a social process</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the study of specific relationships between individuals or small groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>philosophical and theoretical frameworks used within a discipline to formulate theories, generalizations, and the experiments performed in support of them</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the laws, morals, values, religious beliefs, customs, fashions, rituals, and all of the cultural rules that govern social life</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the social ties that bind a group of people together such as kinship, shared location, and religion</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a theoretical perspective through which scholars examine the relationship of individuals within their society by studying their communication (language and symbols)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a proposed explanation about social interactions or society</p> Signup and view all the answers