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the process of making appropriate empirical observations or measurements |
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ability to see the link between incidents in the lives of individuals and large social forces |
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the scientific study of the patterns and processes of human social relations |
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the scientific fields devoted to the study of human behavior, including sociology, psychology, economics, political science, and anthropology |
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names used to identify some set or class of things that are said to be alike. also a building block of theories |
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two or more persons who maintain a stable pattern of social relations over a significant period of time |
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a collection of people lacking social relations, for example, pedestrians waiting for a walk light |
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groups whose members have a close intimate emotional attachment to other members of the group |
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groups whose members have only limited emotional attachments to one another |
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the density and emotional intensity of attachments within a group |
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unfriendly interactions between group |
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a pattern of social relationships or links among some set of social units |
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repeated actions between social units, or the persistence of stable, shared features among units |
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techniques used to measure behavior without disturbing the behavior of the subjects |
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to select measures of concepts in order to make it possible to perform observational operations on them |
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a statement about the expected relationship between or among observable measures of concepts |
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