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47 Cards in this Set
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What is sociology? |
The systematic study of human society and social interaction... How people act around each other. |
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Sociological Imagination |
The ability to see relationship between individual experiences and larger social influences. Relies on both micro sociology and Macro sociology. |
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Macro sociology |
The study of large scale patterns and process that characterize society as a whole. |
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Micro sociology |
A sociological approach that examines the patterns of individuals social interaction in specific settings. |
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Sociological Theories |
How and why group disagree, struggle over power, and compete for scarce resources |
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Auguste Comte |
Study of sociology, social statics and social dynamics. |
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Emile Durkheim |
Division of labor, social integration, and suicide |
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Karl Marx |
View on industrial society, class conflict, and capitalism |
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Max Weber |
Social organization, direct observational understanding, explanatory understanding, and value free sociology |
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Jane Addams |
Key contributions to sociology |
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Harriet Martineau |
Key contributions to sociology |
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W.E.B. Du Bois |
Key contributions to sociology |
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Manifest function |
Purposes and activities that are intended and recognized, they are present and clearly evident |
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Latent Function |
Purposes and activities that are unintended and recognized , they are present but not immediately obvious |
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Dysfunction |
Social patterns that have a negative impact on a group of society. |
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Liberal Feminism |
Emphasizes social and legal reform to create equal opportunities for women. |
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Radical Feminism |
Sees male domination in social institutions as the major cause of women's inequality. |
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Global Feminism |
Focuses on how the intersection of gender with race, social class, and colonization has exfoliated women in the devolving world. |
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Symbols |
A micro level perspective that examines individuals everyday behavior through the the communication of knowledge, ideas, beliefs, and attitudes. |
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Subjective |
Based on or influenced by personal feelings, taste, or opinions |
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Social Research |
The systematic study of human |
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Why is social research important in our everyday life? |
Creates knowledge, exposes myths, behavioral explanations, social policy influences, and critical thinking skills of everyday life |
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Scientific Method |
A research process that includes careful data collected, exact measurement, accurate recording and analysis of the findings |
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Concept |
An abstract, idea, mental image, or general notation that represents some aspect of our social life. |
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Variable |
Independent, Dependent, and control |
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Independent Variable |
A characteristic that has an effect on the dependent variable |
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Dependent variable |
The outcome which may be affected by the independent variable.
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Control Variable |
A characteristic that is constant and unchanged during the research process
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Hypothesis |
A statement of the expected relationship between two or more variables
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Reliability |
The consistency with which the same measure produce similar results time after time
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Validity |
The degree to which a measure is accurate and really measures what it claims to measure
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Deductive Reasoning |
An inquiry process that begins with a theory, prediction, or general principle that is then tested through data collection
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Inductive Reasoning |
An inquiry process that begins with a specific observation, followed by data collection, a conclusion about patterns or regularities, and the formulation of hypothesis that can lead theory construction
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Population |
Any well defined group of people about which researchers want to know something |
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Sample |
A group of people that is a representative of the population they wish to study.
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Probability Sample |
A sample in which each person has an equal chance of being selected because the selection is random
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Nonpropability Sample |
A sample for which there is little or no attempt to get a representative cross section of the population
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The Research Proccess |
1. Choose topic 2.Summarize related research 3.Formulate Hypothesis or ask research question 4.Describe data collection methods |
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Qualitative Research |
Nonnumerical materials that then interpret
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Quantative Research |
Focused on numerical analysis
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Correlation and causation |
The strength of the relationship between variable
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Surveys |
Systematic method for collecting data from respondents, including questionnaires, face to face or telephone interviews, or a combination
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Secondary analysis |
Examination of data that have been collected by someone else.
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Field Research |
Data collected by systematic observing people in their natural surroundings |
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Content Analysis |
Data collection method that systematically examines some form of communication |
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Experiment |
Carefully controlled artificial situation that allows researchers to manipulate variables and measure the effects |
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Evaluation Research |
Data collection method that uses all of the standard data collection methods
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