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Midterm Flashcards

1
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Who coined the term sociology

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Comete

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Term used to describe an approach to the study of society that relies specifically on scientific evidence, such as experiments and statistics, to reveal a true nature of how society operates

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Positivism

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Statement of how and why things are related

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Theory

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4
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Macro look of society which is a system made up of many parts working together to promote stability

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Structural functionalism

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5
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Macro look at society that says society is an arena for social inequality and generates change. Who benefits?

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Social conflict

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Micro look at society that say it’s product of everyday interactions of individuals.

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Symbolic interactionism

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7
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Societies entire way of life. ( values, beliefs, behavior)

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Culture

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8
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Community of people living in a certain area that shares valued, norms, and beliefs

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Society

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9
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Standards expected to be followed in a community or society

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Norm

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10
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Broad guidelines for social living,

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Values

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11
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Disorientation due to the inability to make sense out of a familiar way of life

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Culture shock

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12
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Culture patterns that set apart some segment of societies population

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Subculture

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13
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Culture patterns that strongly opposed those widely accepted within a society

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Counter culture

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14
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Used to describe a sub culture shared by the elite in a society

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High culture

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15
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Shared values, ideas, and attitudes within the main stream of a given culture

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Pop culture

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16
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Culture includes a wide range of physical human creations and artifacts

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Material culture

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17
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The intangible world of ideas created by members of a society

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Non material

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18
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Practice of judging another culture by the standards of another culture

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Ethnocentrism

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19
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Practice of judging a culture by its own standards

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Cultural relativism

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20
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Evidence based off experience or observation

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Empirical evidence

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21
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Consistency in measurement

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Reliability

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22
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Actually measuring exactly what you intend to measure

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Validity

23
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Variable that causes the change

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Independent

24
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Variable that changes

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Dependent variable

25
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Weber said this kind of dispassionate and detached is what kind of research

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Value free

26
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Research method for investigating cause and effect under highly controlled conditions

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Experiment

27
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Unverified statement of a relationship between variables; educated guess

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Test hypothesis

28
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A method in which subjects respond to a series of statements or questions on a questionnaire or interview

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Survey research

29
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A series of written questions a researcher presents to subjects

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Questionnaire

30
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A series of questions a researcher asks respondents in person

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Interview

31
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A research method in which investigators systematically observe people while joining them in their routine activities

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Participant observation

32
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Using participant observation to study other societies

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Fieldwork

33
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Systematic study of human behavior

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Sociology

34
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Changes that occur as a society gains new technology

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Sociocultural evolution

35
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Review Leneski’s 5 types of societies

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Hunting and gathering
Horticultural and Pastoral
Agrarian
Industrial societies
Postindustrial societies
36
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This person studied social conflict and believed that the economy was what caused it

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Karl Marx

37
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A way of thinking that emphasizes deliberate, matter of fact calculation of the most efficient way to accomplish a particular task

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Rationality

38
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The growth of large rational organizations

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Bureaucracy

39
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This person focused on rationality, bureaucracy in social organizations, and Calvinism

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Max Weber

40
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Condition in which society provides little moral guidance for individuals

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Anomie

41
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Warned of anomie, specialized economic activity, and expanding division of labor.

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Emile Durkheim

42
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The lifelong social experience by which people develop their human potential and learn culture

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Socialization

43
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A persons fairly consistent patterns of acting, thinking, and feeling

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Personality

44
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People whose bodies have both female and make characteristics

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Intersexuals

45
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People who feel they are one sex even though biologically they are other

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Transsexual

46
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The recognized violation of cultural norms

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Deviance

47
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A powerful negative label that greatly changes a persons self concept and social identity

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Stigma

48
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The idea that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from how others respond to those action

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Labeling theory

49
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The attempt to discourage criminality through the use of punishment

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Deterrence

50
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An act of moral vengeance by which society makes the offender suffer as much as the crime

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Retribution

51
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Rendering a offender through permanent imprisonment or execution

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Societal protection

52
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A program for reforming the offender to prevent later offenses

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Rehabilitation

53
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A persons tendency toward conformity or deviance depends on the amount of contact with others who encourage or reject conventional behavior

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Differential association theory

54
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Social control depends on people anticipating the consequences of their behavior

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Control theory

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