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Sociology - correct answers The study of humans in social situations Relation of the individuals situation in society Social science that takes as its unit of measurement Using the sociological imagination requires re-examining the most ordinary objects - correct answers Describe Local Analysis Global Analysis Historical Analysis The _________ ___________ instructs us not to take things for granted - correct answers sociological imagination Common Sense - correct answers Knowledge/...

Overt Curriculum - correct answers openly stated curriculum that teaches subjects like science, math, history, English, etc. Covert Curriculum - correct answers Philip Jackson's Hidden Curriculum the teaching and accepting of social rules, norms, morals, traditions, and the idea that status quo must not be disrupted or challenged radically Meritocracy - correct answers an individualistic view where people are rewarded based on how hard they work a society where status and mobility are b...

the study of human social relationships and institutions - correct answers Sociology Disciplines which study humans, interaction, society or culture - correct answers SOCIAL SCIENCE any relatively stable pattern of social behavior - correct answers SOCIAL STRUCTURE A national organization for sociologists dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good. - correct answers AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Ability to see the connection...

Verstehen - correct answers German word for understanding (interpretive understanding social action) Instrumental-value action - correct answers action that works (it is effective) Value-rational action - correct answers action that is focused less on efficiency and more on if it is right, proper, just Ideal type - correct answers a concept- a conceptual tool- constructed by a social scientist to capture the essential features of some social phenomenon the spirit of capitalism - corr...

According to the Myth of Individualism, what is the argument that explains why the popular psychological view of self is misguided and what is a better way to understand the individual? - correct answers The psychological, and commonly shared, belief is that man and society are two separate entities which would mean that man is not influenced by society. This view is misguided because the individual is both free to act on their choices and have social forces shape them at the same time. Indiv...

Research Methods - correct answers Standard rules that are followed when investigating questions about the social world. Quantitative - correct answers Information in numeric form. Qualitative - correct answers Information not readily converted in numeric form. Inductive Approach - correct answers 1) Observation. 2) Theory. 3) Determines correlation by noticing a change in to things simultaneously. Deductive Approach - correct answers 1) Theory. 2) Hypothesis. 3) Observations. 4...

A ________ predicts a relationship between or among variables. - correct answers Hypothesis A group of people who share a culture and a territory is known as a(n) - correct answers Society A(n) ________ is the collection of data by having people answer a series of questions. - correct answers Survey According to Max Weber, the central force in social change is - correct answers Religion Durkheim's concept of _____ refers to the degree to which people are tied to their social groups....

ascribed status - correct answers a position an individual either inherits at birth or receives involuntarily later in life, Involuntary ex: race/ethnicity, sex, social class of parents, siblings Auguste Comte and positivism - correct answers suggested that we apply the scientific method to the social world, a process known as _________. He wondered what held society together, thought the scientific method was the way to solve this, thus coming up with Sociology background assumption - co...

sociology - correct answers studying human behavior in society, all human behavior occurs in societal context Social location - correct answers its like the matirx race gender class sexual orientation C.Wright Mills - correct answers wrote sociological imgaination, does not play well with others, elements of personality Mills Argued - correct answers we need to have crtical politcal engagement, we need to use sociology or knowledge of to make the world a better place Sociological ima...

Who was Auguste Comte? - correct answers Comte was intrested how the French revolution change Western civilization. He introduced the idea of applying the scientific method to the social world known as positivism. Based on this innovation and comte effort to apply the scientific method to social life, he is credited as being the founder of sociology. What is Comte's 3 stage theory? - correct answers Theological stage: humankind inability to understand the natural world Metaphysical St...