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| Karl Marx's term for capitalists, those who own the means to produce wealth (11) |
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Marx's term for the struggle between the proletariat (workers) and the
bourgeoisie (capitalist) (11) |
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a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups
competing for scarce resources (29) |
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| a cluster of people within a larger group who choose to interact with one another, an internal faction |
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a theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of various
parts, each with a function that, when fulfilled, contributes to society's equilibrium; also
known as functionalism and structural functionalism (26) |
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| a statement that goes beyond the individual case and is applied to a broader group or situation (7) |
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the extensive interconnections among nations due to the expansion of capitalism
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| globalization of capitalism: |
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capitalism (investing to make profits within a rational system)
becoming the globe's dominant economic system (33) |
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| an examination of large-scale patterns of society (30) |
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| the use of sociology to solve problems from the micro level of family relationships to the macro level of crime and pollution (21) |
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| an examination of small-scale patterns of society (30) |
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the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to comprehend, explain,
and predict events in our natural environment (5) |
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communication without words, through gestures, space, silence, and so
on (30) |
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total neutrality (14)
patterns: recurring characteristics or events (7) |
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| the application of the scientific approach to the social world (10) |
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Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the
means of production (11) |
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sociological research whose only purpose is to make discoveries about
life in human groups, not to make changes in those groups (21) |
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| repeating a study in order to check its findings (14) |
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the application of systematic methods to obtain knowledge and the knowledge obtained
by those methods (5) |
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| the use of objective, systematic observations to test theories (10) |
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| Durkheim's term for a group's patterns of behavior (15) |
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| the degree to which people feel a part of social groups (12) |
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| what people do when they are in one another's presence (30) |
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the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and
society (4) |
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the intellectual and academic disciplines designed to understand the social world
objectively by means of controlled and repeated observations (6) |
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a term used by sociologists to refer to a group of people who share a culture and a
territory (4) |
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| sociological perspective: |
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understanding human behavior by placing it within its broader social
context (4) |
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| the scientific study of society and human behavior (10) |
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| the meanings that people give to their own behavior (15) |
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a theoretical perspective in which society is viewed as composed of
symbols that people use to establish meaning, develop their views of the world, and communicate with one another (23) |
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| a general statement about how some parts of the world fit together and how they work; an explanation of how two or more facts are related to one another (23) |
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| the view that a sociologist's personal values should not influence social research (14) |
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ideas about what is good or worthwhile in life; attitudes about the way the world ought
to be (14)
Verstehen: a German word used by Weber that is perhaps best understood as "to have insight into someone's situation" (15) |
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