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Intro to Sociology Question and answers 100% correct Intro to Sociology: Terms Sociology - correct answer - the scientific study of human social life, groups, and societies. - study of human groups and societies, giving particular emphasis to analysis of the industrialized world Sociolog...

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Intro to Sociology: Terms
Sociology - correct answer ✔- the scientific study of human social life,
groups, and societies.


- study of human groups and societies, giving particular emphasis to analysis
of the industrialized world


Sociological Imagination - correct answer ✔The application of imaginative
thought to the asking and answering of sociological questions. Someone
using the sociological imagination "thinks himself away" from the familiar
routines of daily life.


Social Facts - correct answer ✔- aspects of social life that shape our actions
as individuals (ex. state of the economy or the influence of religion)


- according to Émile Durkheim, the aspects of social life that shape our
actions as individuals


Anomie - correct answer ✔- a feeling of aimlessness or despair provoked by
modern social life


- a concept first brought into wide usage in sociology by Durkheim, referring to
a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior


Functionalist Perspective - correct answer ✔A theoretical perspective based
on the notion that social events can best be explained in terms of the
functions they perform- that is, the contributions they make to the continuity of
a society.

,Conflict Perspective - correct answer ✔Argument that deviance is
deliberately chosen and often political in nature


Interactionist Perspective - correct answer ✔Theoretical perspective that
derives social processes (such as conflict, cooperation, identity formation)
from human interaction. It is the study of how individuals act within society.


Latent Functions - correct answer ✔- consequences of social activity of
which participants are unaware


- functional consequences that are not intended or recognized by the
members of a social system in which they occur


The Social Construction of Reality - correct answer ✔- 1966 book about the
sociology of knowledge by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann


- (social construction) theory of knowledge in sociology and communication
theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of
the world


Role Conflict - correct answer ✔- It can be something that can be for either a
short period of time, or a long period of time, and it can also be connected to
situational experiences.


- Intra-role conflict occurs when the demands are within a single domain of
life, such as on the job.


Social Structure - correct answer ✔- system of socioeconomic stratification,
social institutions, or other patterned relations between large social groups

, - structure of social network ties between individuals or organizations


Verstehen - correct answer ✔Empathic understanding of human behavior


Independent Variable - correct answer ✔The one that is changed by the
scientist.


Random Sample - correct answer ✔- chosen so that every member of the
population has an equal probability of being included


- method in which a sample is chosen so that every member of the population
has the same probability of being included


Control Variable - correct answer ✔One element that is not changed
throughout an experiment, because its unchanging state allows the
relationship between the other variables being tested to be better understood


Survey - correct answer ✔- researchers ask subjects to provide answers to
structured questionnaires


- a method of sociological research in which questionnaires are administered
to the population being studied


Ethnography - correct answer ✔- firsthand study of people using participant
observation or interviewing


- socializes, works, or lives with members of a group, organization, or
community and perhaps participates directly in its activities

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