This theoretical perspective views society as a living organism in which each part of the organism contributes to its survival and stability.
What is the functionalist perspective?
100
The systematic, organized series of steps that ensures maximum objectivity and consistency in researching a problem.
What is the scientific method?
100
The process whereby people learn the attitudes, values, and actions appropriate to individuals as members of a particular culture.
What is socialization?
100
An awareness of the relationship between an individual and the wider society.
What is a sociological imagination?
100
A list of common practices and beliefs that are shared by all societies with a list being compiled by George Murdock.
What are cultural universals?
200
The sociological perspective that sees the world in a continual struggle.
What is the conflict perspective?
200
A speculative statement about the relationship between two or more variables is known as this.
What is a hypothesis?
200
The distinct identity that sets us apart from others.
What is the self?
200
A loss of direction that is felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.
What is anomie?
200
The tendency to assume that one's own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others.
What is ethnocentrism?
300
The element or process of a society that may actually disrupt teh social system or reduces its stability.
What is dysfunction?
300
The term used to describe the phenomenon whereby subjects deviate from their typical behavior because they are under observation.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
300
Ther term used to refer to the child's awareness of attitudes viewpoints and expectations of society as a whole.
What is generalized other?
300
The word Max Weber used to stress the need for sociologists to take into account people's emotions, thoughts, beliefs, understandings, and attitudes.
What is verstehen?
300
Standards of behavior that are established and maintained by a society.
What is a norm?
400
This perspective generalizes about everyday forms of social interaction in order to understand society as a whole.
What is the interactionist perspective?
400
A study, generally in the from of a questionaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act.
What is a survey?
400
The process of discarding former behavior patterns and accepting new ones as part of a transition in one's life.
What is resocialization?
400
The scientific study of social behavior and human groups.
What is Sociology?
400
This is a norm that is deemed highly necessary to the welfare of a society.
What is a more?
500
These functions of institutions are open, stated and conscious.
What are manifest functions?
500
The variable that is hypothesized to cause or influence another variable.
What is the independent variable?
500
The name of the phenomenon that is belief that we learn who we are by interacting with others
What is the looking glass self?
500
The term we use to describe a division of an individual's identity into two or more social realities (example: being Black in White America.
What is double consciousness?
500
People who are residents of a retirement community, people living at the race track, and carnival workers are all examples of what sociologists refer to as this.